1. from Walden, or Life in the Woods
Junior English
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2. Responding to the Quotation
“…I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” (pg. 233).
Write a personal response to this quotation. Questions you should ask yourself include these:
What does “deliberately” mean?
How do you define “essential facts of life”?
How might one die without having lived?
Must one retreat from society in order to determine one’s own destiny?
Responding to the Quotation