Night Thoreau
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Questions
1. The play was written a while back so now in modern time the perspective is different than it would of been when it was first written.
2. He encouraged others to be their own individual persons.
3. She is trying to say that her son never does what other people do and is always on the opposite side of the crowd. You can say he is trying to be a rebel. Henry has always being the opposite of society for example he was the only baby that didn't cry while he was being baptized.
4. Henry has not joined the war so he was put in jail. Bailey did nothing, he was accused of burning a farm when really it was an unfortunate accident. He is protesting against war that the President has started.
5. Henrys way of teaching (huckleberry) is scrambled he tries to experiment with different things. Deacan Ball thinks that they should learn directly from school textbooks.
6. Transcendentalism-belief that knowledge and principle of reality can be obtained by studying thought and necessary by practical experience.
7. Henry told her not to write notes, but the whole time he wanted her to he was just testing her to see if she would do what another person told her to do. He wants her to be her own man.
8. Henrys view of men is that they trash the earth so if they were able to fly they would trash the sky and trash the atmosphere.
9. The "experiment" he wants to do is all by himself and this reflects his life and the way he lives because he is a lonely man that doesn't connect with anybody to much.
10. Henry is trying to say that men should step up and if a law is corrupt then by all means do whatever you can to get rid of that law. I disagree with this because if other individuals fight against a different law each time eventually there will be no laws that keep us at peace.
11. Waldo: "what are you doing in jail?" Henry: "What are you doing out of jail?" Henry is wondering why hasn't Waldo stood up for what he believes in.
1. The play was written a while back so now in modern time the perspective is different than it would of been when it was first written.
2. He encouraged others to be their own individual persons.
3. She is trying to say that her son never does what other people do and is always on the opposite side of the crowd. You can say he is trying to be a rebel. Henry has always being the opposite of society for example he was the only baby that didn't cry while he was being baptized.
4. Henry has not joined the war so he was put in jail. Bailey did nothing, he was accused of burning a farm when really it was an unfortunate accident. He is protesting against war that the President has started.
5. Henrys way of teaching (huckleberry) is scrambled he tries to experiment with different things. Deacan Ball thinks that they should learn directly from school textbooks.
6. Transcendentalism-belief that knowledge and principle of reality can be obtained by studying thought and necessary by practical experience.
7. Henry told her not to write notes, but the whole time he wanted her to he was just testing her to see if she would do what another person told her to do. He wants her to be her own man.
8. Henrys view of men is that they trash the earth so if they were able to fly they would trash the sky and trash the atmosphere.
9. The "experiment" he wants to do is all by himself and this reflects his life and the way he lives because he is a lonely man that doesn't connect with anybody to much.
10. Henry is trying to say that men should step up and if a law is corrupt then by all means do whatever you can to get rid of that law. I disagree with this because if other individuals fight against a different law each time eventually there will be no laws that keep us at peace.
11. Waldo: "what are you doing in jail?" Henry: "What are you doing out of jail?" Henry is wondering why hasn't Waldo stood up for what he believes in.