Analytical Analysis Essay Aplac

In Henry David Thoreau’s “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,” (1854) the main thing Thoreau is trying to get across is simplicity, he is even goes as far as moving out to a rural area of Walden Pond for two years just to get away from the city and all the fast moving life. Thoreau uses three different rhetorical strategies to talk about life, his use of similes talks about a life with no purpose, he uses rhetorical questioning to make people think the way he does, and the use of repetition is to get the point across of a simple life. What do ants and pigmies from the Greek fable have to do with humans?
According to Henry Thoreau, “we” refers to a person who lives for the future and not the present. He states that people work and work for something that is not going to happen today, just like ants that spend their life trying to survive, and the pigmies from the fable “Myrmidons,” did everything to protect their land but they did take in the pleasure of living. He compares the people of today doing that, since they take for granted the stuff that is all around them just to make sure there is a tomorrow and are missing today. Thoreau was more of living in the moment kind of guy; he didn’t understand why someone would waste “today” just to get a tomorrow that might not even happen. This simile was very effectively it helped the readers understand Thoreau’s idea of a simple life. The use of rhetorical questions makes you think.
When Thoreau used a rhetorical question in paragraph three, it made the reader stop and think what they are doing in their lives and are they living for today or tomorrow? By doing this, he lets people into his way of life and even if his way of life is odd to people now since everything is about the future with all the new smartphones with the technology of the future, it makes people stop and think why we go through life so fast, what is the rush. “People are starved even before being hungry,” what he means