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Thoreau's Written Words Analysis

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The same written words on a page can affect different people in different ways while at the same time connecting people through the love of literature. Words are timeless and give us the opportunity to enter into a new, old world that existed before us. Many stories have been able to survive through generations in order to keep the spirit of the past alive and well, which is why Thoreau described the written word as the “choicest of relics”. The intimacy Thoreau speaks of is the connection each individual reader draws the the words on the page to their own life, which creates a bond between the reader and the author’s words. However, in addition to being able to apply those words to your personal life, those words are universal in the way that
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