Henry Dvid Thoreau Biography (in First Person)

I was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12, 1817. My family consisted of my Ma and Pa and leash siblings Helen, John Jr. and Sofia. We lived a very humble life my founding father fly the cooped in a pencil company while my mother tended to the hold and took care of me and my siblings. (Otfinoski pg. 60) My family was really pushing for me to cabbage school at Harvard College moreover the cost was too expensive for my family. My father owned a itty-bitty pencil factory and my mother took in boarders to help make ends meet.But, with great sacrifice my family was commensurate to pitch in the money to emit me to college, and so I entered the class of 1833 at the age of 16 and gradational in the year 1837. (Otfinoski pg. 60) After graduating Harvard College I went back to Concord to start my own academy with my brother John Jr. and teach the right smart I felt was right. Together with my brother we taught about 20 students. I believe that the academy would have lasted long er if my brother hadnt taken ill, the work was just too much for me to manage on my own. Otfinoski pg. 61-62) before long after closing the academy my brother died I was devastated. I walked 40 miles to attend one of Ralph Waldo Emersons lectures, soon after I was able to meet the great man. Emerson offered me a job it was as a caretaker and a handyman in his home I would live there and work while he was away doing his lectures. In our free time we would controvert Transcendentalism, a philosophy for which he was well known. I was inspired by his radical view and ideas, and looked up to him as a mentor and hero. (Otfinoski pg. 2) sense of touch it was time to see more of the world I left Emersons and headed back to Concord. In March 1845 I headed towards Walden pool where I strengthened a cabin for myself and stood there for two years. My reasons for going there were to start life and discover the true account of it. During my time at the Walden Pond I worked tirelessly on the manuscripts that will later become my starting two books. (Otfinoski pg. 62-64) In May of 1849 a Boston publisher make my first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.Although it sold ill I never gave up. I later wrote about my experience reenforcement at the Walden Pond this book was entitled Walden which also wasnt as popular as I would have hoped but that still didnt bring me down. (Otfinoski pg. 64-66) Soon, nature being the very thing that I love became my enemy as I contracted tuberculosis from living in the outdoors with the bad weather and the constant exposure to the graphite splosh working in the pencil factory all caught up to me and on May 6, 1862 I died at the age of 45 years old. (Otfinoski pg. 67-69)