Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity Literary Analysis

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.