Walden

In Walden, Thoreau lives at Walden pond for years. In this he experiences the true beauty of being a Transcendentalist, he gets to do what he wants with no one around, except the animals, to judge him. I feel that living like he did at Walden would be a nice change compared to living around tons of people. Also, in this story, Thoreau uses many metaphors to show how he doesn't need material things to be happy. In his story of contemplating buying all the farmland shows that the farmer that was going to sell it to him, became too greedy to give up what he has. This shows that what Thoreau wants isn't as important as his own happiness. " for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone" I believe that this quote shows that Thoreau belives he as rich as he will ever be because he doesn't have the unnecessary things that most people have. "—the refusal was all I wanted—" To me this shows that he strived to get something he didn't even want, he wanted to see if somone could be like he was not greedy. When he wanted to but the Holloway farm, the only reason that he wanted it was it was about two miles from the village, half a mile from the nearest neighbor, and separated from the highway by a broad field. To me, if that was the only reasons why he would buy a farm, it was remarkable, to want to be away from all the noise ad chaos to appreciate the quiet peacefulness of his surroundings is remarkable. 1203130081