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Fahrenheit 451 Dialectical Journal

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1) Thoreau is a quite unusual guy that wants to be isolated from civilization/human society due to the reasons that he believes should be obtained by every civilian. Thoreau wants to move to a place away from people but a place where there is nature around.Wild nature that isn’t touched by humans and that they would make. Thoreau wants to leave human society because he believes that there is something wrong with civilization for him. He believes that the world is moving too fast, and technology is growing faster. He thinks that people should slow down and take the time to enjoy life and realize the beautiful things not far from civilization. Just like what Thoreau says “Why should we live with such hurry and a waste of life”(1921). Thoreau …show more content…

Thoreau also says “To be awake is to be alive.I have never yet met a man who [is] quite awake.How could I have looked him in the face?”(1919) It shows that people are still asleep or blind with the fact that physical labor is enough but they aren’t awake to realize both physical and mental effort in them. By Thoreau retreating to the woods, he gains freedom and a sense of being alive. As Thoreau stated that he wants to be in the woods because “[He]wishe[s] to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life[…]and not, when I came to die, discover that I ha[ve] not lived”(1920). This shows that he lives in the woods because he wants to live his life and have no …show more content…

Hooper from society and Wakefield hides from his family. However, in Thoreau’s Walden he doesn’t want to hide anything from society, he wants to show society being isolated can be good. The purpose of Thoreau isolating himself from society because the world is moving and growing too fast. The point he wants to bring across is that people should take the time to realize the changes and to see the beauty of nature but it will be hard for people to change because Thoreau knows that people “Work and wedge [their] feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion”(1923-1924). This shows that people are stuck being in labor just like mud because it’s hard to get rid of the mud. This is the significance of the idea of isolation. Also, Thoreau relates to Hawthorne on this topic because Thoreau wants to see nature and doesn’t want to be near civilization. Thoreau really likes nature and for him, it’s like another dimension that he sees himself waking up to. Thoreau relates to Hawthorne's idea because Thoreau shows multiple ways to enjoy life instead of working and doing usual things that a human would

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