McKnight+Students+Synopsis+of+Woodlief+Lecture

One of prof. Woodlief's argument was to show that Thoreau was not straight forward in his writing. He teased you and joked with you while he stripped down what he was talking about which included nature and life. -Travis Block     Professor Woodlief argues that Henry Thoreau talks about the need to live with the bare essentials of life, by stripping away the unnecessary things of life. He also strips away the uses of words by bringing even those to their barest forms.- Lucas Judson    The main idea to is to realize how we are living are lives, and to make the changes necessary to reconstruct it.-Jonathan Marsh     Professor Woodlief argues that in Walden Thoreau gives us a transcendentalism striptease, in the sense that he is showing us the we can live and be happy with the basic necessities. Along with trying to get humans to change there way of life.-Adi Alicea <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prof. Woodlief argues that in Walden everything is not as it seems and pretty unclear. This means you must decipher tricky sentences and “strip” down what Thoreau is saying. ~ Mia Rosenberg <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the point of the lecture was to broaden you way of thinking on the point of what Walden is all about buy mentioning transcendentalism she ring up the thought that if Walden was able to shed all of these commodities then why cant we. why are we unable to lose modern conveniences. ~Chris Quinn <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main Idea: Professor Woodlief argues that Walden’s message is hidden in how he writes. You must break down his themes and messages within the text to understand his full point. Paying attention to what is key and stripping his text down to see it’s core is something you must do to read this is also Thorea’s message that he expresses in Walden that stripping down and using only basic necessities.- Desmond <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I think that Professor Woodlief is emphasizing Thoreau's idea of going beyond the normal state of living by teaching us using the idea of “Strip” - “Tease”. - Robby