Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Or, Life In The Woods

The book Walden; or, Life in the Woods was about the life of Henry David Thoreau and how he spent 2 years and 2 months living in the woods to get a view of society from another perspective. Thoreau starts the story talking about how he lives in the woods alone and he has for 2 years and 2 months. The story is about how he has the "pond project" and how he built his own cabin, got his own food and supported himself alone off of land that wasn't his, but he had permission to be on. Thoreau believed that living in the Urban life is a good way to forget who you truly are. So he proved this by living alone for this time. He spent his days studying plants and animals, along with farming and other things. Thoreau also met quite a lot of people to

He was far enough to be alone, but close enough to be able to hear a trains and church bells in the distance. In the very beginning he talked about how he wrote most of this book while living miles from the closest neighbor, in the woods alone. Thoreau did get visitors while living in the woods. His visitors would come to his cabin in the middle of the woods and they told Thoreau stories about the history of the area. Thoreau told of all the visitors from the woodchopper to the ones who over stayed their welcome. He enjoyed the presence of them all. In this story Thoreau was very independent. He lived in the woods alone and he built his own cabin along with gathered and farmed his own food. He supported himself by trading the beans he grew himself for what he needed and he bought very little and was extremely independent. Along with this Thoreau didn’t depend on the increasing "market revolution" because of how independent he was. The "market revolution" was the expansion of marketplaces because of roads and canals. With this happening, it had a big effect on society, but Thoreau didn’t use the markets because of how independent he was. He didn’t buy anything and if he did it was very