ort and arguments. Thoreau's rejection of society and governmental issues are reflected in his essays about nature and how man can govern himself from his own morals.
             Thoreau's main purpose for writing his ideas about government issues was to make people see that the system of government controlling and regulating a large society with different views and opinions is not always the best plan. It can have its positives and negatives; however, since the government is so corrupt, due to the exclusive people in positions of high authority and their involvements in immoral activities, most of its actions are negative rather than positive and unbalance society's priorities. He tries to prove that the general people do not always run government, but by a group of exclusive people who think they know best and should make the decisions for the rest of its representation.
             Henry Thoreau was born to a poor family in Massachusetts when the United States had just stabilized from all of the previous changes in the government and reconstruction of the Revolutionary War. As he was growing up, he was an intelligent young boy and was one of the top students in his class. He later graduates from his high school and goes on to college and majors for a degree in education. All the time Thoreau spent in school, he viewed the country's government and the people living in the country, were the most idealistic people in the world. After graduating from college, he moves back home and starts teaching at a school in his hometown. At this point in his life, he was very enthusiastic about working as a teacher and being patriotic for his country. He viewed his hometown and the way that society was working as a government was running smooth and perfectly. Throughout this time, his life was in a status of constancy and had just enough to live and spend in small and sufficient luxuries.
             As soon as his life is settled down and grounded-well...