How was Henrey D. Thoreau Influenced?

 

      Henry david Thoreau influenced by the insight of Kant and Carlyle. But his style differs by the

insight of Emerson (Henry 1). Henry was questioning how people lived and what values they

have. What people live for and why. He wanted to change the way people live. He wanted them

to realize why they do the things they do. “Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”

(Henry David Thoreau 4). Henry was a man with planty of talents who worked and had a hard

life (transcendentalism Henry 1).

  

Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817, in Concord Massachusetts (about Thoreau’s life).

Henry grew very close to his brother John. They were each others best friends, and very close

to each other. They both went to Harvard Collage University, that John helped Henry to pay for

(Henry and John 8). Henry and John after collage become teachers in the Concord Center school

for two weeks (csusten 4).

 

   When in 1814 John cut himself while shaving and died of lockjaw in henry’s arms (Henry and

John 10). It was Henry’s first tragety and it was very hard for him to recover from it. When

Henry was 28 years old, he wanted to write his first book that would be memorial (about Henry

Thoreau 1). Henry decided to go to Walden Pond and build his own cabin on a land owened by

Emerson. Emerson was also a poet and essayist (Ralph Waldo Emerson 1). Henry read a great

amount of books and he also spend a lot of time in nature, where he started writing. Henry fell

in love with nature. Friends and family would come visit him at his cabin, where he was there

for two years (about Henry Thoreau 10).

   Henry’s first book was called “ A week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers (1894)” (about

Henry 9). Henry also wrote poems, but more then poems he wrote journals and letters. Henry

David Thoreau was a man who would get in trouble with government and plenty of other

people. Alto many people would compare with him. He always questin things, argued with

everyone. He lived his life his own way. His ways of braking rules gat him in jail for refusing to

pay his toll tax (csustan 2). While he was in jail, he wrote a famous essay called “Ressistance to

Civil Government” (Thoreau 2). Henry David Thoreau was against all the rules. Henry was

against slavery (about Henry Thoreau 5). He wanted that all to change. Many people would say

that he is negative and doesn’t care about people. But he cares about the problems and all the

people around him.

 

   When Henry came back home, Henry then worked with his father for many years making

pencils. His Father was pencil manifacturer (about Hennry Thoreau 1). Henry Thoreau suffered

from Tuberculosis since he was a young boy and he carried it with him throw out his adulthood.

Thoreau died very young, at the age of 44 (hdThoreau 3). His funeral was held in the first

Parrish church in Concord, MA, he was buried at foot of Bedford Street, where his sister Helen

and his brother John along with his parents were also buried (Thoreauhd 2).

 

   Henry was known for two accomplishments after his death. One of accomplishments was that

all of his stories weren’t just stories. His stories were stories from real life, real life, real people

in real places. The other accomplishments was that he lived life in his own terms and his own

way and wrote it all down. (about henrys life 3). Henry David Thoreau is known today as famous

transcendentalism writer.

  

 

~ by luciekom on May 9, 2007.