Walden

Walden In Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” it is quite evident that Thoreau seeks to control the world in which he lives. The book is about Thoreau taking control of his life by moving away from society so that he can live by himself. Thoreau’s going back to the primitive if you will. Thoreau feels that society has strayed too far from the “pursuit of excellence and purity”. He states that man has become too ambitious and too greedy. Man desires to own and gain too many things. People are not living simply anymore. To Thoreau the cost of something is not really its actual cost in dollars and cents. To him the cost of something is the amount of life one person must exchange for it. He claims a man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. Rather than accumulating things (possessions) Thoreau wanted to enjoy the richness of time. His trek to Walden Pond us his attempt to break away from the lives of desperation that he saw most people lead. Thoreau borrows an axe and builds a cabin for himself on the shore of Walden thoreau, man, life, things, himself, people, walden, one, live, luxuries, lives, about, society, should, pond, own, jobs, cost, claims, cabin, become, basic, away, world, woods, way, two, time, three, thinks, successful, states, something