Transcendental Reflective Essay

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When Thoreau read Emerson’s writing he began to live that life himself and started to build his home. It was nothing more than a shanty, that barely kept the rain and cold winds out, but he took what he had and turned it into a beautiful one room home where he lived a life that he only done what needed to be done nothing more. Both men wrote about living a life without materials, but Thoreau himself takes the writing and turns it into a life for him. By taking this adventure in life he could see what life had to offer, what he could offer, and what he wanted in his life. I myself seem to be a materialist, because I like to have the items that today have to offer in life. Although I still enjoy looking at nature and watching the beauty that folds out before my eyes, but I also enjoy the life I live now. The cell phones and music, no longer looking for pay phones or turning on the radio, it is all at the people’s finger tips.
Emerson had been a nonconformist, and the reader ...

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I do not think that I am a conformist because I do my own thing. I care what people think and say but I go about and do what makes me happy and allows me to be me. I follow only the rules that I have to, the others are meant to be broken like all teenagers do, I do not follow all the rules my parents set, but I stay out of trouble and do what my parents ask of me.
Emerson was in love with nature. Emerson married nature itself, taking in all the beauty, walking through the woods whenever lonely. Emerson was the one who was able to bring nature to life as if it were truly alive. “In the woods, is youth.” Emerson says this in his writing in Nature and the reader can tell that Emerson ...

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