Walden Ch 18

Question 1

Realizes that reasons for leaving walden are

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Relevant

Question 2

Thoreau makes his point that those who go towards their dreams will be

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Successful and happier

Question 3

Describes confusion as to why people are so desperate to

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Succeed

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Large amount of money can only buy us

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Unnecessary things

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Society pays attention to

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Invaluable things

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Compares dinner parties to a swamp where people reach the

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Bottom by themselves

Question 7

Men should focus on the

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Deeper meaning of life which is ones ideas and way of thinking

Question 8

A man should obey the laws of his being and thus he will never

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Find himself in opposition to a just government

Question 9

Living in walden Thoreau found that If a man confidently follows his dreams he will find

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New laws and unexpected success

Question 10

As he simifies his life universal laws will become

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Less complex

Question 11

Demand that one speak so he could be understood is

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Ridiculous

Question 12

Truth of our words betrays the

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Inadequacy of our statements

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Common sense is the

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Dullest sense

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Our conceptions of reality are

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Limiting and artificial

Question 15

Love your life and live it no matter

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How poor it is

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Towns poor seem to live the most

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Independent lives

Question 17

Thoreau wants

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Truth

Question 18

People waste their time practicing virtues which

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Real work would make irrelevant

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We are content with the

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Dull and ordinary

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Only dawn is the one we are

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Awake to witness

Question 21

Metaphor about sailing and exploration illustrates the notion that men should focus of

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Deeper meaning of life.

Question 22

Sailing and exploration metaphor compares artificial

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Material aspects of life with the true introspective life

Question 23

Rhetorical questions that Thoreau uses motivates reader to

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Evaluate their kid decisions and the way they e chosen to lead their lives

Question 24

Thoreau protests idea of insignificance of mans ideas in comparison to

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The world as a whole

Question 25

Poverty can be a blessing because those who aren’t poor focus too much on

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Temporary things rather than permanent things

Question 26

Money makes people lose sight of the

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True meaning of life

Question 27

Suggests that people off life in a manner that allows thing to

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Be themselves and step away from conformity

Life of individuality

Question 28

Thoreau accounts the he is in need of a

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Change of soul