Henry_David_Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was a man who expressed his beliefs of society, government, and mankind while living under his own self-criticism. He drew off his own life experiences to write his works, but with those experiences were his transcendentalist points of view he was trying to get across. This is reason why he was misunderstood in his own time people, merely read his books and dismissed them as nature books, it is the same reason that many of today’s younger generation think of him as a hero. Henry David Thoreau was born on the 12th of July 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts, eighteen miles northwest of Boston (Concise 349). “Though Thoreau was born in ‘the era of good feeling,’ his family experienced many misfortunes, politically, physically, and financially (Harding 4).” Thoreau’s father, John, was a small, quiet man who got along with Henry on the surface, but it seems that the two never quite understood each other’s desires. John had weakening health, which caused the family’s financial strain (Harding 11). Cynthia Thoreau, Henry’s mother, was more of an outspoken, dynamic, person. Even though the family was poor, she was known always to have enough for henry, thoreau, one, life, concord, concise, walden, first, out, john, henry’s, after, school, jail, book, week, thoreau’s, own, years, year, time, pond, miller, man, harvard, ellen, during, both, 350, until, two, trip, taxes, tax, soon