Walden_读后感.docVIP

Walden Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the author of Walden, was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He was an American writer and thinker, and graduated from Harvard University. He made friends with Emerson when he was a student, and he learned a lot from him. At the same time he stared writing by the influence of Emerson. He wrote many books and papers among his life, and the most impressed and famous one is On Civil Disobedience which was published in 1848. Later, in 1854，Walden was published, but it was not as impressed as On Civil Disobedience. But as time went by, it was accepted by more and more people. His life is up and down. Though he just stayed in the jail for a day he thought a lot about the society and the people, and he wrote the famous Paper: Resistance to Civil Government. When I got the book, I first saw the three words，Lonely , Solitude , Wisdom in the cover . Thoreau lived in Walden for almost a half and two years. So Walden records his life and thoughts lived in Walden alone in the woods by the Walden Pond. In this book he wrote these parts: Economy, Where I lived, and What I lived for, Reading, Sounds, Solitude, Visitor, the Village, and the Pond in winter,. In the economy part he wrote what he did and thought about his money by the way describing what he saw and experience to explain it. “One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels” “all change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant” When a new generation become the main support of the society, they will create many new things and new ideas to strengthen their status and power ,and control the main thought of the public. Even a small change will make a big difference of the world. When the young and new generation take some new measures to support themselves, they do change the next generation. So the new generation should take care of what they do, and think twice before making great changes. Where I lived, and What