Pg. 432 1-4, 6-8

1.) He is invited by an old friend, Roderick Usher
2.) She becomes sicker than she had been and leads to death
3.) He is afraid of doctors digging up her body due to her strange disease
4.) No, it lacks the details that he uses to vividly describe the gloominess of the story.
6.) Setting  - Poe describes the room as a dark entrapment that allows little to no light in, meaning that the entire house is full of darkness.
      Character Traits - The man was a very dark type of person, who enjoyed no type of food, no music, and wore clothes of only specific texture.
    Plot Developments - Madeline becomes more sick and eventually dies
    Imagery - The wind was so great it almost brought them off the ground, and the wind storm had a rather negative feeling about it outside.
7.) Poe wrote The Fall of the House of Usher as a mirror into his own life, writing about himself as Roderick Usher and using Madeline, his wife who died at a young age, as a way to describe the dejection in his life that he felt after her death.
8.) No, I do not consider it meaningless, because to say that an author writing about himself is meaningless would deem millions of important historical articles meaningless. He simply writes about how the gloominess of life appears and indirectly describes how it affected him by allowing the reader to read the story as the narrator.

Woman in the 19th Century Questions 1-4

1.) She believed that women should be treated as a living mind2.) She is better than other women who act like just women and not living minds
3.) The main idea is that women should act as if they are there own person and be true to themselves regardless of what the male society wants them to be.
4.) That she needs to disregard other people's points of view to be true to herself

Pg. 397 Questions 1-4, 7

1.) The moral law of one's self and what he or she believes to be right
2.) Non-violently protest it by not participating in the demands of the law.
3.) Some men serve like machines, others with their conscience, and others morality. He believed that the conscience was the right way
4.) Not necessarily, because it is still just as easy not to pay taxes, however, the government will not be the first people to hunt you down like they were back then.
7.) He seems like more of a patriot to me but also acts as a traitor to show that he believed differently in things like the Mexican-American war. He asked important questions about conflicts he believed differently in but would disobey the laws non-violently. Because of the non-violent protesting, he seems patriotic, but because of the general idea of disregarding the law, he seems like a traitor.

Civil Disobedience Theme

In Civil Disobedience, Emerson uses the theme of civil responsibility to show that people should speak up when they believe that something is wrong. Even though the majority of the population may not agree with what you believe in, you should stand up and do something about it regardless. He argues that a corporation with conscience men is a corporation with a conscience. Because they have one, they should be doing what is right. Law is not always a just use of justice, but the men who use the right laws in the right way by presenting the proper argument about the law, however, is. He believes that unjust laws should be acted against and disobeyed until the laws are abolished or amended.

Page 388 Questions 1-3, 6, 7

1.) To find himself
2.) Simplify yourself with few things
3.) Once you've seen one thing you don't need to see it again, and you should not poke your head in other people's business like the media
6.) He believes that poor society is the most independent-lived life by support of honest means. They are the least negatively influenced by others' opinions. He believes that the poor are in the best position to experience life.

Walden Pond Themes

Henry David Thoreau write Walden to show how he believed that faith in ones self is more important than the neediness that everyone possesses. The general idea of what he did shows that this is true because when he could have a nice home with furnishings, he instead chooses to live in the wild with rotting planks of wood as structure for his home. He believes that self-reliance is extremely important and shows this by living on his own (on someone else's land) in the wilderness. He does however value friendship and socialization, but chooses not to associate himself with society in order to show that faith in yourself is all that is needed to survive. By living in the wilderness with only essentials, another them that is identifiable is the theme of simple life, and how it is sometimes favorable over waking up and having to deal with squabbling people on the way to work. Because by living I'm the wilderness with no other people to socialize with, people like that do not have to be dealt with.

Nature Questions Pg. 375

Questions 1-3 and 6 on page 375.
1.) No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
2.) Nature is a spiritual symbol, words are natural, and particular facts are that of spiritual ones.
3.) The occult relation of man and vegetable.
6.) Nature takes on emotion of man by being connected and always harmonized. 

Emerson writes nature as a way to show how he believes nature and man to be connected. Not only does he believe that it is harmonized with man, but that nature's emotions change along with man's. He says that the greatest delight the fields minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. By this, he means that he enjoys the connection that he believes to exist between man and nature. He also states that the delight received from this connection does not ascend from man or nature, but from both when they are harmonized only as one.