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Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Henry David Thoreau:,Walden “What I Lived for”,and the“Conclusion”,Fernando Valdes,English 11-2,Period F,Saress Smith,Home,Henry David Thoreau,Walden,Home,Click here for a,special GameQuiz,If this does not work mute your computer.,American Transcendental writer.,Born in Concord,Massachusetts in 1817.,Mother knew Emersons wifes sister which led Thoreau to know Emerson.,Studied in Harvard.(1833 1837),As a child,loved to explore the nature around Concord.,Henry David Thoreau,Home,Continue,Was not an easy person to get along with.,Wrote the very famous essay,Walden.,Lived for 2 years,alone,in the woods,in a place called Walden Pond.,Thoreau was a protester as well.,Home,Previous Page,Continue,Saw Mexican American War as an attempt to extend American slaveholding territory.,Protests against the Mexican American War by refusing to pay his poll tax.(Is sent to jail 1 day because of this),Lived in Emersons house doing different weird jobs.,Home,Previous Page,Continue,Since 1948,lives the rest of his life in his parents house,living out of making pencils and doing many different weird jobs.,Becomes sort of like the record keeper of Concord,1860,Thoreau gets a cold which leads to the discovery of his tuberculosis.,In 1860 Thoreau dies from tuberculosis but has a very calm and peaceful death.,Home,Previous Page,Walden is an essay by Henry David Thoreau based on an experiment that Thoreau did in order to rediscover the greatness of a simple life led close to nature.,Walden Pond was a very rural area,basically untouched by humans that fitted Thoreaus urge to know more about life,even though it was only 2 miles away from the town Walden.,He lived alone with nature for 2 years.,This is one of the most well-known works ever produced in America.,In this work Thoreau blends many styles and contents therefore making the style less of a stylist to the past.,Walden,Home,Continue,Walden is divided into 6 sections:,from Economy,from Where I Lived,and What I Lived For,from Solitude,from The Bean Field,from Brute Neighbors,from Conclusion,Home,Previous Page,Continue,from Where I Lived,and What I Lived For,from Conclusion,Home,Pictures,from Where I Live,and What I Live For,In this section of Walden,Thoreau talks about his experience at Walden Pond and some of the lessons he has been able to learn.,Thoreau explains that he wants to know the real meaning of life and about lifes divinity because he does not want to leave like men who live in uncertainty of the meaning of life.,Thoreau tells the reader to simplify their life.For example,he tells us not to think to much of the material things.To reduce or eliminate excess in life,like furniture,too many plates,and he even says that instead of eating three times a day why not eat one time a day.,Thoreau asks himself why people live in such a hurry.,Continue,Home of,current topic,Makes a comparison between railroads and the workers that build them.,Thoreau basically tells the reader to try to live a day as nature so he or she can discover what Thoreau has experienced living in Walden.,Home of,current topic,Previous Page,from Conclusion,In this section Thoreau tells the reader of how he has learned that if a man confidently follows his dreams,he will find unexpected success.,He tells the reader to live and enjoy his or her life,no matter how bad it is.,He tells the reader that he or she should not rush things.,He compares people to an insect egg who looked like part of a plant for a long time,but once born,no matter how long it took,now it was a beautiful thing,apart from the plant.,The reason for Thoreau saying this is that he thinks that people are so busy at what they are doing that humanity looks like a whole.What he is telling you is to get out of that routine and think for yourself.,Home of,current topic,Home of,current topic,Continue,Home of,current topic,Continue,Previous Page,Home of,current topic,Previous Page,Henry David Thoreau,GameQuiz,Continue,How to play:,-,You will have a question.,-You will press spacebar.,-Words will start coming down from the top of the slide.,-One of this words or phrase is the answer to the question.,-You must click the right answer before all the words reach the bottom.,Start,What year was Henry David Thoreau born?,1,1900,1845,1934,1914,1823,1347,1903,1763,1890,1898,1800,1817,To try again use your backspace button.,2,Where was Thoreau born?,Denver,Colorado,New York,Nevada,Vermont,Utah,Philadelphia,North Carolina,Buffalo,Mississippi,Chicago,Massachusetts,To try again use your backspace button.,3,What kind of writer was Thoreau?,Contemporary,Realist,Bad,Dark Romantic,Extreme,Realist,Lame,Realist,American,Master,1898,Modern,Boring,Transcendental,To try again use your backspace button.,4,Where did Thoreau study college?,Yale,Harvard,Gainesville,Babson,1823,Yale,Berkley,Bentley,Boston,College,Georgia,Tech,Concordia,University,Harvard,To try
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