Character Analysis: Walden Thoreau

Live simple, not complicated. Do you change your personality or goals based on the opinions of society? Thoreau has a different look on life, everyone expects him to work for someone else and raise a family like the rest of society. But in Walden Thoreau makes a valid point in which say’s, “lead lives of quiet desperation" Which I take it as saying that many people do not live life as they want, that they do not take risks or chances just because they are too scared or fear that society will exile them. Thoreau takes a step back in life, and goes to Walden pond in which he writes Walden, The Reading goes through the account of all the experience’s and reflects that Thoreau has and makes while he was living at Walden pond. Thoreau has one point that every chapter connects to; that you can live your dreams, if you have the confidence to do so you can live your dream with simplicity. As Thoreau tends to be what you would call old fashioned, but that's not what I look at it as, I see Thoreau looking to society and seeing how everyone is changing. He sees that less people are out in the world interacting with Nature and the earth. Less people are going out camping and fishing. Instead people are working 10-12 hours a day and then go home

He is living his dream but not simply. Thoreau says “I did not use tea, nor coffee, nor butter, nor milk, nor fresh meat, and so did not have to work to get them; again, as I did not work hard, I did not have to eat hard, and it cost me but a trifle for my food; but as he began with tea, and coffee, and butter, and milk, and beef, he had to work hard to pay for them, and when he had worked hard he had to eat hard again to repair the waste of his system.” Thoreau tries to convince John that he is not living the dream to its fullest, he is working harder then he should, That if you live for yourself simply, you can live happily in your dream