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WHAT I LIVED FOR
- “Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine to-morrow”
Warden's purpose was to convince the reader to live life slowly. He disagrees with they way the people are living life at a rapid pace. He wants for every second of life to be enjoyed to its fullest and not spent on anticipating the next day.
SOLITUDE
- “This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely?
Walden shows us that he does not feel lonely while in the woods. He tries to explain to us that we are all part of the same Universe. That no matter how far apart or close, we are always connected and united with nature and each other.
THE POND IN THE WATER
- “Every winter the liquid and trembling surface of the pond, which was so sensitive to every breath, and reflected every light and shadow, becomes solid to the depth of a foot or a foot and a half, so that it will support the heaviest teams, and perchance the snow covers it to an equal depth, and it is not to be distinguished from any level field. Like the marmots in the surrounding hills, it closes its eye-lids and becomes dormant for three months or more.”
Walden shows us that the their comes a time when the moving waters stop. He shows us that it's possible for one to "freeze" their busy life. To be able to take a break and not worry of troubles
SPRING
- “Suddenly an influx of light filled my house, though the evening was at hand, and the clouds of winter still overhung it, and the eaves were dripping with sleety rain. I looked out the window, and lo! where yesterday was cold gray ice there lay the transparent pond already calm and full of hope as in a summer evening, reflecting a summer evening sky in its bosom, though none was visible overhead, as if it had intelligence with some remote horizon"
Walden imagines spring as time of change. He wants us to see how the cold gloomy days of winter come to an end. How a person could be drawn out of their darkness and begin to see the light of spring replenishing them.
CONCLUSION
- “He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings."
Walden had a great experience in the woods. He tells us that such an experience will change a person way of viewing the world. It will enlighten the person who will be able to understand life more fully.
