The three sections to me were all good and interesting because they all were about how he didn't like the government and what they believed i and what they had chosen the laws to be because THOREAU believed in a lot of different things and did not want to listen to the government because they were making the world a place that is not to livable.
The people should try and make the world a better place, but i don't think that you should just disobey you're government because you have to go by there rules in order to stay out of trouble and be equal with everyone around them, but they could try to fight and try to get better laws that they want to go by.
Section 1
"One's duties are inextricable from the world one lives in."
This piece of writing interests me because he specifically talks about how the people should disobey the government and do what they believe in because the government doesn't always have laws that that others believe in.
Section 2
"He says that he himself would never want to think himself dependent on the State's protection."
This one is more of saying that the rich would not have so much civil disobedience. He believes that because they are not thanking about what they should do to make the world or anything else better, they are worrying about material things and themselves.
Section 3
"One that respects the individual and will even allow people to live independently of the state."
This talks more of people ability of changing the world and making it a better place. He want people to do that because they are not trying to all they want to do what they want and not realize that some of the things they do effects the world in a bad way and they should try and improve the world.
(these are good examples of transcendentalism...)
NATURE...
Reading the writing of Nature by Emerson opened my mind to the way nature works. From the way nature is in order from a seed becoming a pant, and that into a tree, and the tree dies and fertilizes the ground. By this it shows me how the world cycles, and you will learn that if something has been born it will eventually die and the cycle will continue .
I was reading and i came across something that really caught my attention it said, “The stars awaken a certain reverence, because thought always present, they are always inaccessible.” This makes me fell that they are talking about when we see a star that we are awaken by the things that are not that positive in our lives, and all of the sins that we have committed. We are basically always concerned.
SELF-RELIANCE...
In the passage he is mainly trying to say that the men should trust themselves and not make there decisions off of what everyone else opinion is and that there decision matters just as much as everyone else. Your heart will guide you in the right direction.
These are everyday life situations and people learn how to deal with them eventually, the hard way or someones help.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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You have done an excellent job on this section, but there are two more. One is for "Nature", and the other for "Self Reliance". Keep up the good work, and let me know when you are done with the rest of this unit.
ReplyDeleteThis is much better. You should continue working on Dark Romanticism.
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