The book “Walden” by David Henry Thoreau, and the poem “How Happy is a Little Stone” by Emily Dickinson, may seem very different but they do share a common theme. That theme is that simplicity is overlooked in society and you don’t need material possessions to live a happy life.

In Walden, one of the main themes is that simplicity is overlooked. People don't realize how easy they can make life in many different ways. One of the main concerns is that people are very influential. They tend to due what other people say or due. In the book Walden, Thoreau quoted “The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same” and what he meant by this quote as stated before about society is that people are like