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Henry David Thoreau. 1817-1862. Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1817. As a boy, he loved the woods and fields around his town. He entered Harvard in 1833 and graduated four years later. He never ranked higher than the middle of his class. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862
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• Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1817. As a boy, he loved the woods and fields around his town.
• He entered Harvard in 1833 and graduated four years later.
• He never ranked higher than the middle of his class.• He was independent and eccentric, and he wore a
green coat to chapel “because the rules required black.”
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• Thoreau seems to be the opposite of the great American self-made man. He, by his own choosing, became a self-UNMADE man.
• He lasted only two weeks as a schoolteacher (he quit, refusing to whip a child).
• The woman he proposed to turned him down.• He had little interest in the family business,
despite his Harvard education.
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• At the age of 28, on July 4, 1845, he ended his three-year stay at the house of a friend and moved to a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts.
• The experiment was an attempt to rediscover the grandeur and heroism inherent in a simple life led close to nature.
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• One of Thoreau’s most famous remarks is: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
• What does he mean?
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• Thoreau is also very famous for an act of civil disobedience.
• He refused to pay taxes to support the Mexican War, which he felt would extend American slave-owning territory.
• He was extremely opposed to slavery.• He spent the night in jail before someone paid
the tax for him.
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• In 1861, Thoreau developed tuberculosis.• On his deathbed, his aunt asked him, “Have
you made your peace with God?” Thoreau replied, “Why, Aunt, I didn’t know we had ever quarreled.”
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