Friday, October 16, 2009
Day 27
Today we looked at the reading "Walden Pond" by Thoreau. Imagine you, like Thoreau, went and lived in a place like Walden Pond. After one month, your parents have asked you to come back to town, get a real job and settle down. Write a letter to them explaining why you want to continue living at Walden Pond. Make sure you touch on the ideas of individualism and transcendentalism, if this fits your ideals, in the letter.
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Dear parents (Steve and Colette)
i am writing back to your note that has your wishes on it. you have asked me to come home a settle down but i have settled down and i like living out here. i don't have to worry anymore and my mind can be free. i finally don't have to worry about other people and i can live my life to the fullest and do as i wish. now you want me to work and come home i love you both with a passion and i would love to see you again. but i like not to worry about work and have constant pressure on me. this is going to be my final message for you both i "might" return to see you both again.
Love,
Eric
Dear Parents,
I will not be returning home to settle down and get a job. Any time soon at least. I like living out here, this is a land of pease. There is nothing to worry about and no pressured. If I came back got a job and a place to live, I would always be worried about if I have enough money to pay bills, stressed about the thing going on around me. Out here their is none of that. You can just sit back, relax, and enjoy the landscape. Living out in the cities under the pressures and stresses of the world is not the way I want to live. So I am going to stay out here for the time being. If I come back I will stop by.
Sincerely,
Travis
Dear Family,
I wont be returning home anytime soon. I know you have requested me to come home but i really feel more open with myself out here. I have settled down out here and this feels more like home than where you are requesting me to live in your own house. I dont find myself as stressed living out here because all i need is myself and nature. At home i would be more stressed to find a job and worry about it all the time. I dont have to worry about keeping everyone happy or paying bills and such. All i worry about out here is relaxing and thinking. In my mind the city is no good i would love to live out here. This is where i will be staying from now on. Maybe i'll see you soon.
Love, megan
Dear mom and dad, I am writing back in reguards to your letter. I know you guys wished I was back home but I plan on staying here for a little longer. I enjoy the way I'm living here. It is stress free and I can live how I want. I took the way I use to live for granite but living out here I appreciate everything. I miss being with you guys but I'm at a state of peace here. I don't have to worry about anything. I will probably be back soon but I will stay here for a liitle while. I miss you and love you. Love Jessie.
Dear mom and dad,
I won't be coming home anytime soon. I like living out here, I don''t have to worry about the stress of civilization. Not having the pressure of life like back home, has made me relize who i truely am. I don't have to put an act on for anyone and i can be myself all the time and be accepted for who i am. I'm sorry i cannot fullfil your wishes for me to come back home and find a job. But it would cause me to have to come back and be someone i'm not. I am going to stay here for awile.
Best of wishes.
Love, Sam
Dear Parents,
I'm writing this letter to let you know,i will not be returning to get a job. I feel that out in the woods i can really get in touch with my inner self. I feel like i don't have any rules to listen to. I dont have anyone to judge me and i can think how i want without people telling me its wrong. I like the solitude because at work I have to do what they tell me but in the woods i can do what I want and when i want it. Being home is awesome but nothing like the woods. This is why I want to saty out here.
From Mitchel
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