Walden Kristen Jones

In Thorea’ s Walden taken from Elements Of Literature Fifth Course “Where I Lived And What I Lived For”. He expressed his feelings on life and how he thought people should use there life, one of the statements being “I did not wish to live what was not life”. In saying that he meant he didn’t want to live a life of no meaning, no purpose. He wanted his life to have meaning, to stand for something. He went to the woods to learn more, more about the world, more about life or in his words “I went to woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essentials of life, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived”. (pg237) He was different he only wished to live for the facts of life. He wanted to show people that life isn’t nothing it’s a beautiful gift given by God In his words “living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary”. (pg237) He wanted to live different from everyone else because he felt people took advantage of the life they were given so he dug deeper. So he expressed how so by saying “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be a mean why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were