Walden Pond

that each should embrace life as if it is here for today, but could be gone tomorrow. Transcendentalists believed in living for what presents itself to us today, today, and worry about living what presents itself tomorrow, tomorrow. In Thoreau’s “Walden,” he states, “Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come…

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seashell – The Catcher in the Rye As I looked at the flowers that Thoreau had collected during his time near Walden pond, they started to glow an intense violet color and I was transported once again. This time I found myself in front of the Museum of Natural History in the 20th Century. Loving museums, I entered the museum and I saw a very distinctive person in…

connecting with nature. Thoreau gambles his successful, easy life and bets on a world where he could experience the deep connection of nature through first hand experiences. Thoreau describes his journey of finding peace and fulfillment in a house, by a pond, separated from the fast past world around him. Walter Benjamin echoes similar sediments in his work “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” He stresses the need to connect to something real and tangible without…

he has “great qualities of intellect and character,” as his close friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne described. Thoreau was an adventurous man who wanted to find out what life is. He tries to figure this out by living a deliberate life in the wood at Walden Pond. As Thoreau described, “I Went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it has to teach, and not when I came to die, discover…

“Walden” by Henry David Thoreau attempts to demonstrate the benefits of straying from “civilized society” and learning about life by living in the woods at Walden Pond. He documents the ways in which he was not only able to survive, but learn from the simplicity and beauty of the woods. Thoreau expresses that his interest in such an…

“Not every child who has attended a summer camp is classified as a hero–” (Allan, Davin). Pi battled a tiger and the vast open sea at the age of 16. In the book Life of Pi, Yann Martel wrote a young adult named Piscine Patel, who is on his way to complete a hero 's journey. This journey really shows how much someone can adapt to such a life changing experience. Before Pi’s journey began, he lived in Pondicherry, India, and spent a majority of his time at the zoo that his father owned.…

other. I always know we are close to being there when I see the neon light sign with Gambino’s on it peeking around the corner. Entering the parking lot I see the koi fish pond on the right side of the building by the front double doors. That pond brings back so many memories, because one time I dropped my barbie doll right in the pond. It was a traumatizing experience for a six year old, but at least I was about go to eat the most delicious food that makes me so full I can briefly move. I get…

As a result of the fast changing world, people are losing sight of the simplicity of life. People in modern society concern themselves too much with gaining wealth and spending free time on technology. This could be a threat to a person’s ability to fully appreciate nature and to see their self worth. Henry David Thoreau, poet and writer, lived in the wilderness away from distractions to experience self discovery. Through this time, he discovered the importance of not allowing a modern society…

communicating responsibility, but to the human factor as well. These principles help to explain the paradox in the writers’ antithetical experiences. In Thoreau’s case, the sheer physical disconnect between himself- an isolated inhabitant of a cabin on Walden Pond- and the authority over him- the government- dilutes the government’s influence on him. Thoreau only actually meets “this American government, or its representative, the State government, directly, and face to face, once a year- no…

Throughout Salva's personal journey he learned many lessons that impacted him in A Long Walk to Water making him more independent, braver and more of a leader. Salva became more independent as a person because in the book A Long Walk to Water slava was left in a barn all by himself and he had to find a way to get to the refugee camp, I can support this because in the text it states “Finally he sat up and opened his eyes no one else was in the barn. Nobody.Nothing. They had left him. He was…