Walden Ch.6 Visitors

Walden Ch.6 Visitors

1. Communication

   • Does not interrupt his solitude
   • Aid's one's self-communion
   • Require's enough mental/spiritual space

2. Primitiveness & Morals

   • Thoreau praises and respects primitiveness
     • Showed when he receives an uneducated traveler named Therien
   • Discovered that Thoreau is an abolitionist / doesn't brag about it
     • Shows Thoreau's humbleness & modesty

3. Hospitality

   • Thoreau welcomes all visitors despite class
     • Except for beggars saying "objects of charity are not our guests"
   • Praises an uneducated traveler named Therien as a Homeric figure
     • Then says he is "too immersed in his animal life"
   • Has some prejudice against the uneducated