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Walden Essay Research Paper Henry David Thoreau (стр. 2 из 2)

Henry Thoreau, with his mentality almost totally developed, meets the reinforcement needed to solidify his views. His journal happened to be no personal concern, and one day while his mother conversed with Lucy Jackson Brown it was brought to her attention, which then of course was forwarded to Emerson. On the grounds that Henry’s views echoed Emerson’s so greatly Emerson then devised they should meet, and soon after they became, “ an important, if not always easy, friendship” (Derleth, 19). It was not long after their first meeting that Emerson was already writing of Thoreau in his journal, “I delight much in my young friend, who seems to have as free and erect a mind as any I have ever met…My good Henry Thoreau made this else solitary afternoon sunny with his simplicity and clear perception…” Emerson very much took a liking to Henry, whether it was a reflection in himself that Emerson saw, or a fertile ground for his ideas, it makes no difference. Emerson was just what Thoreau needed, not only someone to reinforce his thoughts and beliefs, but to become a companion. Now without any doubts to his way of thinking Henry Thoreau’s mind was concrete in it’s pursuits.

Henry’s childhood was a time of learning and a time of development. It was a childhood like no other, that in turn produced a man like no other. Every man that shall find his adulthood different from the next, shall equally find his childhood different from the next, and therefore discover the connection in their youngest toils. For every man’s days as a child is a foundation like that of a fingerprint, and all vary their paths accordingly. Henry David Thoreau will always be a name echoed through the halls of learning, and with it echoes this, “I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad” (T