Friday, February 11, 2011

Blog #4

Could I live in a secluded house in the woods by myself for a year?  I would have to say I probably couldn't.  It would be really lonely to be in the middle of nowhere for a year.  When I think about being secluded for a year, I can't help but thinking about the movie Castaway.  If I was all alone for a year I would probably start talking to rocks or something so I could just talk to something haha.  Other than being lonely, I wouldn't know what to do with my time.  The days would seem like they last forever.  I would have to learn how to live off the land and sort of build a new life there.  Honestly I don't think that I would be able to do it.  During Thoreau's time it probably would have been a little easier to be secluded for a year because there wasn't all this technology around.  Since there is all this technology around and we use it everyday, it would be really hard for, me atleast, to live secluded in the woods for a year.
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5 comments:

  1. Brittany TrotterFebruary 12, 2011 at 8:35 PM

    I like the comparison to Castaway haha but it does make sense. It would be extremely boring and not enough things to do to fill our day.

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  2. OliviaFebruary 13, 2011 at 7:44 AM

    -Cast Away- ... classic! What a great example! Do you think we always equate crazy with seclusion or lack of technology? I could imagine Thoreau talking to a volleyball =)

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  3. E.WertFebruary 13, 2011 at 10:46 AM

    Even though he didn't have the same technology we do, what was new in his day would be called technology. But I think that even today, actually especially today Thoreau would still have the same opinion about "technology" in whatever form it would come in. I think that he would definitely believe that we know less about ourselves and how to truly "live" today with all of these gadgets we have.

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  4. Rich SopkoFebruary 13, 2011 at 11:03 PM

    I think it was different for them to go and live in the woods since they never had the technology and devices we do today. Since we've already lived with them, I believe it would be harder to go without them.

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  5. Tiyana Renee'February 14, 2011 at 7:33 AM

    I love how you used Castaway, but yes I wouldn't be able to do it. I would be bored out of my mind too talking to rocks and to myself! I would officially go insane.

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