Illusionism In Walden

The book that I chose to read over the summer was the novel Walden by Henry David Thoreau in which the novel is based on the experience of Thoreau wood life experiment in which he spends time outside civilization. The novel has multiple themes which include the importance of self-reliance, the value of simplicity, the illusion of progress, and the way humanity needs to “lives” with visionary concept. As such I looked around to find an article that would do just to the wonderful, deep-thinking, and illusionism way of Walden where at last I found something that fitted the description rather well. It came from the Global Risk Insight where I this particular article talked about the Nicaragua’s canal, and how it was to harm the ecosystem of the

“Nicaragua canal poses significant environmental risks.” Global Risk Insights Know Your World, July 26, 2015. Web. 15 August 2015). In Walden Thoreau complained of how technology and “civilization” were surrounding him in the woodland from which he was trying to escape or at least get away from. This canal too many people of the region represent something fowl that has arrived to destroy the very foundations of their livelihood. The illusion of progress shows this very clearly as in Thoreau’s viewpoint people always want technology to make their lives better and easier. As such they want to build more railroads to travel easier, more factories to make more goods to sell, and electricity to fuel their homes at night (the novel takes place in the 19th

“Nicaragua canal poses significant environmental risks.” Global Risk Insights Know Your World, July 26, 2015. Web. 15 August 2015) .In the novel Thoreau disliked the idea of anything ruining the natural way of life that for so long had inhabited the land that his forefathers saw. When talking about the idea of faster travel through other places, Thoreau instead went off to count his cats near the woods rather than seeing the land “bleeding” with the spread railroad