Walden

//Birte Gunnarsson, Alyssa Brignolo//

//Walden, or Life in The Woods,// was a novel written by Transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau. It was about the two years that he spent living in the woods in a cabin that he built. The cabin was not in the wilderness, but just outside the town. The book was named Walden, after the lake that Thoreau's cabin was near in Massachusetts. Thoreau moved into this cabin because he wanted to see what it was like to live completely on his own. How life was like to be free from other people.He also did not want to pay immoral taxes that the government was asking for. He was eventually arrested for avoiding the government. He wanted to be arrested because it was his way of drawing attention to the immoral taxes.