English Paper

Justin BoBo

Ms. Morse

Walden Essay

25 March 2016

Walden’s Experience To Find Oneself

I chose to defend Walden in people finding themselves and becoming one with Nature. Being one with Nature consists of you putting away your electronics and sometimes just sitting there. That to me means All Paths lead to Awakening and reaching down within yourself to find yourself. Walden emphasizes the importance of solitude, contemplation, and closeness to nature in transcending the "desperate" existence that, he argues, is the lot of most people. Well go through over 5-8 different themes throughout the story

Walden’s immerses himself into the nature by himself. The time is over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond. Thoreau made it clear in his book, his cabin was not in wilderness but at the edge of town, about two miles from his family home. In one of the first parts of the poems he's talking about staying “forever on the albelieveert” and “looking always at what is to be seen.” In addition to self-development, an advantage of developing one’s perceptiveness is its tendency to alleviate boredom. Rather than “look abroad for amusement, to society and the theatre,” Thoreau’s own life, including supposedly dull pastimes like housework, becomes a source of amusement that “never ceases to be novel.”

The Reason I’m defending Walden’s argument on Self-development, Finding yourself, and the reasoning immersing himself into nature is because i agree. I strongly believe that Self-development is a key component in finding yourself. It’s also a part of becoming one with nature. Thoreau reflects on the feeling of solitude. He also explains how loneliness can occur even be amid by companions if one's heart is not open to them. Thoreau also meditates on the pleasures of escaping society and the petty things that society promotes and use. People everywhere should be able to put the electronics down and go be active. Social Media...