Opposing Views In Walden By Henry David Thoreau

Throughout Walden Thoreau states his opinion on varying subjects. I only agreed with a minority of what he believed. I often found myself disagreeing with what he said. Out of the whole book three points really stood out to me, two of which I find agreeable the other I think to be complete rubbish. I agree on the fact that people need to step aside from society every now and then so they can think for themselves and appreciate the simplicities of life. I also agree on the fact that people tend to follow other people who are high up in the social hierarchy, Thoreau made a point of this as he was discussing the topic of fashion. No matter how much I agree with other points made by Thoreau I will always disagree on the fact where he says that the elderly cannot teach you anything. Thoreau constantly tells us that we need to live simply and be on our own as perfectly independent beings. Concerning this topic and belief of Thoreau’s I strongly agree that people become to absorbed in each other most of the time and sometimes you just need to step back and think about you. Your self as a person is important and not everything is about your friend, or your co0workers, or
When people get ideas into their heads about who is popular and higher in social standing depending upon something they do or have, if enough people have the same idea soon enough everyone else starts to believe the idea and it takes flight like the geese in winter. Thoreau talks about fashion and one of his quotes roughly says that if some one person with high standing starts a trend soon after everyone else follows along. I agree that this happens a lot, but I feel that not every one has to feel like they need to do certain specific things to fit and that it's ok to be themselves and do what they want, and not because some one told them they have to in order to be or get what they