5 Questions from Walden, or Life
​in the Woods

The questions may have been difficult to read on our handout, your help follows:
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p.51 (E - Vocabulary) - Who are the combatants that the author is describing here?
p.52 (B - Quick Check) -  Why is Thoreau so " excited and distressed" (or upset) by watching the ants fight each other?
p. 53 (D  - Your Turn - Literary Focus) - Thoreau says that the loon is  like  a fish and  like a wolf. In these instances, is he using a simile or a metaphor? How do you know?
p. 53 (E - Literary Analysis) - After reading what Thoreau says in lines 82-86, what do you think the rest of his life, after leaving Walden Pond, will be like?
p. 53 (G - Your Turn - Reading Focus) - After reading "Conclusion," make a generalization about what you think Thoreau learned from his time in the woods.

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