Important notes about thoreau

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Important notes about thoreau

• -He wrote 1000 copies of his first booka week on
  the Concord and merrimack rivers275 book sold
• -his second book waldendidn t make the best
  seller list either when it was published in 1854
• -walden shows the reader how to live wisely in a
  world designed to make wise living impossiible.
• -it was a travel guide for the mind.
• -many scholars consider thoreau to be the father
  of the American conservation and preservation
  movements.

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• Thoreau strongly objected to the war on several
  fronts
• In 1846 ,the town constable asked him to pay his
  poll tax.
• He flat-out refused to ante up (kumarda onceden
  kesilen para) what he owed 1.50.
• He was taken to the prison.
• When his friend,emerson,visited him in the
  jail,he asked him why are you here,dear?,he
  answered himwhy aren t you here?
• Look at that and think about the answer.(WAR )

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• Civil disobedienceinfluenced some of the
  worlds greatest leaders,including Mohandas
  mahatma,ghandi,martin luther king,nelson
  mandela.
• exp.in the 1980s,nelson mandela led the south
  african anti-apartheid (güney afr.irkcilik)
  movement,using thoreaus civil disobedience
• -He resisted materialism and chose a life of
  simplicity close to nature.
• Walden is a guide book for life ,showing the
  reader how to live wisely in a world designed to
  make wise living impossible.
• On the duty of civil disobedience has become a
  primer for nonviolent protest.used by gandi,king
  ,mandela