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Does Henry David Thoreau Use Similes In Simplicity Simplicity

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When Henry David Thoreau says, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” (para. 2), he’s saying that people should live as simply as they can. He believes people should live a life of freedom rather than a life or restrictions that are brought upon by structured city-life. With city-life, comes rigid, fast technology. He describes it as, “It lives too fast. Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain” (para. 2). Thoreau believes that simplicity is better than inventions like the railroad that makes humans lazy. Considering Thoreau’s negative …show more content…

6). He wants things to be taken slowly and thinks that reality and progression are not important. 2. Using similes and extended metaphors gives an image to Thoreau’s opinion. It gives the text pathos because the imagery gives the reader a certain feeling as they read it. The way he describes things makes it easier for him to convince the reader to feel how he feels on the subject. For example, he says, “Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, with its boundary forever fluctuating, so that even a German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment” (para. 2). By making this comparison and using words with negative connotations, Thoreau gets across his point of disgust and ridicule more effectively. 7. The purpose of the parable in paragraph 5 is to poke fun at the speed of things. How the messages and messenger are useless. However, by using this story, Thoreau assumes that we know where it’s from and are aware of the background of the story. 10. The ideas in paragraph 6, such as taking life slow and keeping focused on the important things, set up paragraph 7. He states his opinion in paragraph 6: “By closing the eyes and slumbering, and consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish and confirm

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