The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

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In the play, "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail," written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, we hear many different viewpoints Thoreau may have. Some things he says are agreeable with, while others are not. He gets very in depth with things and makes you really think about what is being said. He really believes in what he wants to believe. In this play he stands up for his rights. There are two different ways to approach how people may feel about what is being said in this play and other things that Thoreau may think. Neither of the ways seems to be extraordinarily good or extraordinarily bad.

Thoreau has some points of view that people can really understand and even agree with. "Don't you know what you've done? You have planted whole patches of huckleberries, for an entire generation of Edward Emerson's"(p.80). No matter how bad you may think something is, there has got to be some good done. There are always two ways to look at something. You could choose to do it the negative or the positive way. People may understand this because they never look at it in exactly the same way. "The poor president! What with preserving his popularity and

doing his duty, he doesn't know what to do"(p.65). People around the world try to make themselves be liked too much. They really begin to forget about what is truly important. They need to keep their head in the right place and not get carried away. This is a problem that people seem to deal with all of the time. They get to wrapped up in themselves. "I'm myself, mother. If I'm not, who will be?"(p.4). In society we are our own person. People may try to change that and be someone who they really are not. If you are not yourself no one can be exactly like you. We seem now a days to let people be too much like us or to be too much like someone else. There is also another way to understand what Thoreau is really trying to say in this play, yet people may not notice these in their everyday life.

Thoreau gets really deep in some of his thoughts and you may have to look even deeper. "I know where he's going. He's going where he's SUPPOSED to go. So he can BE where he's supposed to be, at the time he's supposed to be there. Why? So he'll be LIKED. My God, a whole country of us who only want to be liked"(p.14). There are too many people who try to

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Approximate Word count = 787
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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