Stephon. J. Kindle II
9th grade Fitz English Section 2
Thoreau Walden Literary Analysis#1
Due: November 7th, 2014
 ~Education~ 

“I cannot but think that if we had more true wisdom in these respects, not only less education would be needed, because, forsooth, more would already have been acquired, but the pecuniary expense of getting an education would in a great measure vanish.”
-Walden, Economy, Henry. D. Thoreau

Through education we gain intelligence and wisdom, but Henry David Thoreau said that through experiencing different events people are able to truly understand and learn. In Economy the first chapter of Walden by Henry. D. Thoreau, in particularly the sub category "Education", the reader  is able to learn and understand what Thoreau was trying to explain about education and what his definition of it was.

“Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.”
-Walden, Economy, Henry. D. Thoreau

It is believed in most people's minds that the only way to understand things are to live through them. For example when someone is talking about marriage, unless he has been married himself before than he cannot give you the knowledge of marriage and how to deal with it because he himself has never lived through it himself, or if you were picked on by an older sibling, an only child would never know the feeling because he has to siblings to bully or be bullied by. 

Stephon. J. Kindle II
9th grade Fits English Section 2
Thoreau Walden Literary Analysis#2
Due: November 7th, 2014
~Simplicity~

Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!!
 — Henry David Thoreau.

Life gets easier as you think less and live more. Henry David Thoreau did this at Walden Pond by thinking less about the less important things and living life simply. Thoreau lived his life while he was at walden with great simplicity, he although only for a small time at Walden, lived in a shanty that he built with his bare hands and tools that he borrowed got the parts of his home from different men that no longer needed these simple boards or could no longer afford it. He then set out to write and think as he sat for hours a day and thought about his philosophy and how people waste time with petty things when they could be out living their lives happily and two the fullest. 

“By the middle of April, for I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it, my house was framed and ready for the raising.” -Walden, Economy Henry. D. Thoreau

 Through working diligently but simply, without rushing or worrying Thoreau was able to get the work that needed to be done on his new home finished and was able to fix his house to his likings, a place where he'd spend a little over two years living in, working on his writing which we all know today, and focusing on his work that he had to do to survive day by day, whether it was collecting firewood, or planting and harvesting his vegetation. Thoreau was determined to live life with less hardships and more self luxury.

 “It appeared to me that for a like reason men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life” Walden, Henry. D. Thoreau

From Walden I have been able to understand more about Mr. Thoreau and what he wanted to share with us, and through the harkness  discussions that we've had discussing the parts that we have already read, I have found an eagerness to continue in the reading, an urge for more if you would, about what Thoreau has to say. This was just the appetizer, I can't wait for the main course.

I am making progress on stitching together crucial details for my essay, I have finished the introduction stitching through all the way through, my seventh paragraph, I will work on my conclusion 

Yesterday I finished working on my narrative paragraphs on simplicity, education, and life. I'm trying to focus on stitching them together with the other paragraphs.

Today I plan on finishing my first narrative paragraph and doing my second narrative paragraph, I hope to have both at about 300-400 words

Today I plan on writing a narrative paragraph, tomorrow i will focus on where the paragraphs will be at, and then I will continue as the week progresses