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How We Choose Our Life In Walden By Henry Thoreau

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We choose how we want to dress but celebrities say that that's not good enough so we spend more money to look “popular” but when we do get that item it isn’t “popular” anymore. Or we believe in something but your friends think it's stupid and tell you that you shouldn’t, but you are too afraid to say something so you sit there feeling bad about your decision. Society has judged us on how we act and our identity.

We choose where we live, who’s in our life and what we want to do for living. While reading the book Walden by Henry Thoreau we found out that he decides to live in the woods. “When first I took up my abode in the woods…” (Thoreau, 207). He moved to the woods to get away from society and to protest. We should all learn by not caring on what others think. He didn’t care what others thought of him. He only cared about himself and a handful of objects like paper, a bed, lamp, ect. He didn’t want anyone in his life so they couldn’t tell him that's not right. We shouldn’t care what others think but we do we thrive off of friends and being liked. But we have others who choose our life. …show more content…

If we don’t have money or don’t like what others do we then get judged because that's not the best thing in the world. One example is in the movie Dead poets society when Neil the main character’s father took him out of school because he wanted to something different then his father wanted him to do. Neil’s father was saying that “Tomorrow I will take you out of Welton and put you into military school.” (1:40, dead poets society). Neil then killed himself because he didn’t want to follow in the footsteps of his father. But both, we choosing and society choosing, together make life more

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