Our reading assignments are from different parts of the book Walden. There are connections between chapters, especially the first chapter which connect to the whole style of the book. If I have actually time, I will read through some chapters that are not in the assignments in order to get to know Thoreau more and what he wants to convey to the readers. Here are some part of the chapters I read: “I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.” In the notes from chapter Solitude and chapter Village, Thoreau says that he does not like to connect …show more content…
“Sometimes, having had a surfeit of human society and gossip, and worn out all my village friends, I rambled still farther westward than I habitually dwell, into yet more unfrequented parts of the town, "to fresh woods and pastures new," or, while the sun was setting, made my supper of huckleberries and blueberries on Fair Haven Hill, and laid up a store for several days.” When Thoreau start talking about the nature, he will always mention that he do not want to social, but walking into the wood instead (or around the lake in this chapter). That is how he always do to make a transition in this book. The relations between chapters are not continuous. He must writes done whatever he was thinking during that time. I discussed in the first essay about his style of writing is more life a journal. It is a strength that it is easier for his readers to finish the whole book because the independent ideas and topics of each chapter. Readers do not have to deal with the context while reading a single chapter. But through the whole book, Thoreau still has his main direction of