Read this passage from Walden. What advice does Henry David Thoreau offer those who live in poverty? “However mean your life is
, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.” 1)They should love life and find the best in it. 2)They should work hard to achieve greater things. 3)They should retire into the woods and live in solitude. 4)They should stop paying taxes in order to get ahead.
Choice 1: They should love life and find the best in it
Explanation:
In Walden, the advice that Henry David Thoreau offers those who live in poverty is to love their life. He tells them that they should be happy with what they have, be it their family or health, and not think about money all the time. Money doesn't bring you happiness, but love and family do
Explanation: An example : 'My father is reading a book because my mother is sleeping.' 'My father is reading a book' is an independent clause and could be a sentence on its own. 'Because my mother is sleeping' is dependent and makes no sense without its independent counterpart. Dependent clauses often don't make sense on their own.
