Thoreau compared many things in nature on his simple way of life. The relation between Thoreau and McCandless was very obvious. Both Thoreau and McCandless revealed the relation between the environments around us and our souls and how beautiful the nature is. Also, they showed the simplicity of life and the beauty of nature if people implied it to their daily life and know how to use it.
People know themselves better than anyone else, so consequently when you paint your own house, that you built with your own hands, the same color as you, you know your own house’s personality. When it rains, the house becomes pale, just as you become pale when it rains, and when it shines, your house blushes, just as you turn red in the hot sun. That was very understandable when Thoreau said “One man says, in his despair or indifference to life, take up a handful of the earth at your feet, and paint your house that color.” He also added “Better paint your house your own complexion; let it turn pale or blush for you.”
Thoreau’s work might have enlightened McCandless in the idea of that everyone should do something in their life instead of “sitting in their butts”. We can get this when Thoreau metamorphisized the cuckoo birds with how people today buy houses, in which they do not contribute to any of the house’s architecture and they just live in it.
I definitely agree on those similarities and inspirations. McCandless seemed to have had lots of dreams and fantasy about how Thoreau lived and saw nature.
ReplyDeleteBut what about their differences ?
Why such an inspiration considering how far away from Thoreau Chris's thought is ?