Answer:
1. students who make connections while reading are better able to understand the text they are reading
2. your brain will work much harder
3. they are highly personal connections that a reader makes between a piece of reading material and the reader's own experiences or life
of or like a fiend; devilish; inhumanly wicked or cruel
extremely vexatious or difficult
The Thoreau feel that the people who serve the state have the same worth as dogs or horses and that they should receive no more respect then a man of straw or a lump of dirt, so these people feel that working for the state rarely make any moral distinctions,and it also says in the paragraph that they are likely to serve the devil. So by this article we can clearly see that they are apposed to any form of serving the state.
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