1) Economy
- put the sory in first person point of view
- Thoreau bought cottage from James Collins
- took boards from cottage and built a house on Walden Pond, Massachusetts
- lived there 2 years, 2 months, 2 days
- built a chimney
- began to live in house on 4th July
- had farm on his land, income was $ 14.72
- house costed $ 28.12
2) Where I lived and what I lived for
- simple life, change routine
- instead of 3 meals a day, one is satisfactory
- instead of 100 dishes, 5 are enough
- wanted to live a highly disciplined citizen of " Ancient Greek city state Sparta"
- keep accounts of thumbnail
- doesn't like society, thinks society overreacts, society too coplicated
3) Solitude
- no matter how many people you're around, you can still be alone in your mind
- everyone is different, was not lonely, observed nature
- Thoreau doesn't want to live near people but near "the perennial source of our life" (God, nature)
4) The Bean Field
- hard work is the key to happiness in life
- T.
English: Signature of author Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's quote near his cabin site, Walden Pond.
English: Replica of Thoreau's cabin near Walden Po...worked on bean field form 5 in the morning till noon every day
- battle to produce food: allies: rain and sun; enemies: worms, cold weather
- many allusions from Greek Mythologie used in text
- observed every step of process to grow beans
5) Brute Neighbors
- don't fight with your neighbors
- ants fighting like humans
- looms playing on the pond with Thoreau
- animals enjoy playing, fighting, having victory
- animals are a lot like humans
6) Conclusion
- reason: change his routine, look at things different
-left woods to feel, think again
- path from house to lake--> routine
- no dream...