Walden

In a different class I am enrolled in this semester, we read Walden by Henry David Thoreau. My reaction to this reading and Thoreau was that I saw him as despising the ways that society has changed the human race, and wanted to remove himself from the same repetitive pattern that everyone else’s days were consumed of. He noticed the increase in new production, which is a given considering the fact that this was during a major part of the Industrial Revolution. He was afraid that the meaning of life would be lost in the fast production of new materials, people so caught up in the idea of whether they could, and not stopping to think about whether or not they should be changing the world at the rate that it was being changed. I initially thought I wouldn’t be agreeing with Thoreau, but that quickly changed as I read deeper into his essays.