Henry David Thoreau Was A Rebel
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. Walden can be seen as an account
of his rebellion. By the 1840's, life had changed throughout New England,
even in the heart of America's rebellion, Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau
wrote that "I have traveled a good deal in Concord" (Krutch 108). He knew
what he saw there, and what he saw, h ....
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.... the United States' independence, Thoreau went to Walden pond to proclaim
his own independence (Literary 397). If the people of Concord had been
swept up by the speed of technology and the lure of money and property,
Henry would separate himself from these attractive deceptions and seek out
the reality of nature's truths, and "not, when I came to die, discover that
I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so
dear, nor did I wish to practice resignation ....
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