Walden Ch 1

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Walden is a response to

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Questions his townsmen have asked about his life in walden

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Thoreau wants to escape the plights of the young men who

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Inherited farms enslaved and who were made machines by their obligations of the property

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Wants to find out what the true

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Necessities of life are through living a primitive life

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He disputes wisdom of older people arguing that most have not

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Truly lived their lives to the fullest

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Life doing what most consider to be good is a

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Waste

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Public opinion means nothing compared to

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Private opinion

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Never too late to give up on

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Prejudices

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Riches and possessions

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Degeneration of human spirit

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Chapter 1 talks about his early

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Life and business

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Story about the Indian

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Making consumer but product

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The town wouldn’t vote him an allowance for his

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Contributions to that of an Indian

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Moved to walden pond to transact

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Business and reflect privately without outside distraction

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Talks about how possessions of people is what makes them

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Poor

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Criticizes people’s preoccupation with

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Nice clothes

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Factory system is only a way to make

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Corporations rich

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Shelter is a

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Necessity of life

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In building his house he finds inspiration from a

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6 foot by 3 foot box he saw by the railroad

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Wishes people would live with the simplicity of

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Indians in wigwams or the early American settlers

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Profession of architect is unnecessary in that

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Men should build their own houses

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Appearance of a mans house would show his

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Spirit. Otherwise it’s a coffin

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Modern improvements are an

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Illusion

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Farmers are less

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Free than oxen

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Realized how simply and easily he could

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Eat

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Offered experiment of eating only vegetables to those who believed

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It wasn’t possible to survive that way

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Worked 5 years supporting himself and found that he could

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Support himself working only 6 weeks a year

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Values freedom above all else and finds that being a

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Day laborer was the most independent job

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Everyone should pursue their own

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Particular way o living

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Preference for a --- life

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Solitary

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Cooperation is superficial and only possible if a man has

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Faith and doesn't depend on the ways of his community

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Thoreau can't forsake his calling to do

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Good for society

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Suspicious of those who attempt to do good for him considers it

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Unnatural and hypocritical

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Wishes for straightforward

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Praise of the gift of life

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People buy things according to what other people

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Have even if they are poor

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Less possessions=

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More food and rest

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Discussed religion and

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Beauty of life

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Leaves homeland on

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Ship

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Flowers in meadows during

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Changing season

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Connects life with beauty of

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Nature and changing of seasons

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Differing ages and reaves within each

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Neighborhood

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Experiment focused on living a

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Minimalistic life and self reliance

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Luxuries only

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Hinder mankind

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Using nature it's

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Full potential

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Philanthropy is only virtue appreciated by

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Mankind to fullest degree | It's overrated

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Communication with God and saints corrupted

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Peoples manners

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Thoreau used slavery as an example of how people feel they must be

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So extravagant and over the top

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Used slavery as a reference to men who are

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Trapped by their employment or possessions | Emphasizes the spiritual enslavement all people face

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Modern lifestyles has ruined mans

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Primitive but comfortable life

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Thoreau sees building ones own house as a sign of

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Self reliance | Good experience for the soul

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Building ones house costs less than

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Rent for a college student

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Students in college are taught political economy and this

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Put their fathers in debt

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Thoreaus classical education is ironic because he criticized

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Education and criticizes universities for teaching students about life when they would learn more by living life

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Thoreau describes a savage as a

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Free spirit and one that doesn't have to worry about poverty

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Thoreau considers a noble savage to be those who are able to

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Live with the necessaries of life

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Criticism of the industrial revolution is that it distracts people from their

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Actual needs

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Creations of the industrial revolution don't have a meaningful connection to

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An owner who does not create them

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Thoreau talks about the sabbath as

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Intense and speaks of it like he knows what it is

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View of saints by people were so strong that it

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Contradicted their beliefs and gave viewpoint that those who were diseased were evil

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Thoreau believes that the physical circumstances of life are tied to

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Spiritual life

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Dawning of the day=

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Spiritual enlightenment

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Thoreau spends time of first chapter in order to set the

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Scene for his opinions on coming chapters

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The amount he spends on ch 1 signifies his reason for writing which I to

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Make a change within society

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Explains that book was written in

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His cabin that he built on walden pond in concord mass while he lived alone in the woods