Ok,
Let's just make this simpler, shall we? Go to the webques address, and click on the "view the cabin" link. Read the text and look at the pictures associated with the piece.
Answer the following question....
Is Thoreau crazy, or is he on to something by living like this? Why. Give me real answers! I want at least a half page.
See you tomorrow!
Yes i do believe that Thoreau was a little crazy but he did have a point behind it. Thoreau understood the things that a lot of modern people today don't especially teenagers. He worked for everything that he had and only had what was needed. Thats why i truly believed he chose to live in the woods in his tiny little cabin because he earned that cabin and the right to live there. Thoreau wanted "only the essential facts of life" that he felt he could only gain from the wilderness and living off the land. This is why he strove to reduce his needs. Life today is the complete opposite. We rely strictly on technology. Wether we realize it or not things are way easier for us now than they were back then and people take it for granted that someone worked hard for us so we don't have to work as hard today. That is why even though i love to receive things i hate to see something given to someone who doesn't deserve it or hasn't worked for it.
ReplyDeleteThoreau wasnt crazy, he may have seemed eccentric to us "civilized folk" but if you think about it he was simply more natural than we are, for how can one understand life when you cannot understand ones self? A few years of solitude and surviving off the land, with the land, should be a coming of age everyone should have to pass to be considered an adult. Unfortunately the instant gratification loving teenagers today would rebel heavily against this and it would never be legally enforced as it people would view it as barbaric, so used to their comfort air-conditioned living. To put it in a more understood way, Thoreau = win|Us = lose
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ReplyDeleteYes,he was crazy to live like that.In today modern time everybody is using some type of electronic device.Most teenage can't live without electronic devices.In your house home it can get hot sometimes,so you need some type of fan or air-conditioning to cold off.Or lets say if you catch a cold.You would need medicine to get raid of the cold,you can't just sit and wait out till the cold goes away.I would go out in buy food.I wouldn't try to plant or kill for my food.
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ReplyDeleteI think that Thoreaus was not crazy, in fact i think he was rather smart if you ask me. In that time period they di not have all the thingsa we have in today time so it was not as bad as we really think. today us Americans think that we need some new phone, laptop, etc. just to get by everyday. This man was happy just living in a 10 by 12 house. Americans today think they need the news phone or the biggest house or the nicest car to be happy. Thoreau was happy with the out doors and a little home to make him happy. I will have to say the man is not crazy. He is very smart.
Thoreau wasn't at all crazy, he didn't like the modern ideas that were going on. Like he once said, that machinery is replacing humans. Also where he lived there was a lot of noise, so I don't blame him for leaving the area to buld a house in the woods. It is more peaceful and it gets away from society. -Sean Newbauer
ReplyDeleteIts hard to say if he was crazy or not, i guess its what you compare it to. I mean life wasnt always about technology and materials, it was more about connections. Thoreau just wanted to connect with nature in the best way possible: to be stuck in the middle of it. This taught thoreau to be self sufficient and he never had to depend on anyone to learn anything. So you could say he got the full camping experience compared to todays modern world.
ReplyDeleteI completed the exercise on grammer fragment which became benefical to me because I wasnt sure what a fragment was. As I began doing it I started to understand it more. I feel that I will need alittle more practice with it to better my understanding of fragments.
ReplyDeleteAs I look at it, Thoreau wasn't crazy at all, he found a way to get away from the real world, and not only that but do it in a smart fashion. He had the bravery and will to make his own home, a place where you have food to eat, shelter for protection from the outside dangers the environment has to offer, and a resting place. He did it all for 28 dollars as well. Human beings need to observe and try to mimic the way he has lived, because we would not only be a wiser and healthier race away from personal wants and adictions, but we would be more conservative as well.
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