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Describing the Theme of a Passage from Walden 33 Views
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The passage theme. What's it all about? Thoreau wants simplicity in life. ("Simplify, simplify.") The world is overly complex, materialistic. A move to the woods made his life worth living.
Transcript
- 00:03
All right we've read the passage Just skim again We're
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going to play a little cards that you obtain information
- 00:08
and we'll wait All right moving on way to bring
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justice to the theme of this passage All right Well
- 00:15
that's correct Answer d not all authors are so kind
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is toe literally shout their name Simplicity simplicity simplicity anyway
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yes hdtvs ultimate point is that people should live simply
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He goes to the woods in orderto live a simple
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life and focus solely on what was called oh yeah
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living all his criticism of modern convenience and iphones And
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why max and driverless cars yeah is based around the
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fact that it unnecessarily complicates life Throw isn't concerned about
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safety in this passage He's worried about the spiritual danger
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is not the physical one So yeah toss eh After
- 00:50
all if you were worried about physical dangers silently probably
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spend some time talking about how to avoid bears and
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wolves while living simply in the woods you know without
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a gun also throw himself moved to the woods But
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while he never attack city life specifically so goodbye be
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it may be hard to live simply in a city
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but throws criticizing convenience not apartments Nor is he concerned
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about saving nature from technology So goodbye See his argument
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runs that modern conveniences are bad for people not nature
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Of course nobody ever showed throw a youtube video of
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a sad polar bear riding a tiny iceberg out to 00:01:24.946 --> [endTime] sea
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