I most relate to the themes regarding simplicity and the human reconnection to nature. My essay will be a "diary entry" of sorts. When i'm bored i love reading magazines...most often at the library because then I can read them but don't have to waste the money to buy them. The magazines are overall pretty trashy, but in a materialistic sort of a way, completely absorbing. So.....in my "entry" upon reading many of these i will begin to look at the titles and the pictures and realize what our society has come to. Using a magazine as a sort of view into society you see that nothing is plain, or simple. We can't see the beauty in a leaf or a landscape anymore even humans are airbrushed in order to achieve "perfection" .
In the entry I intend to quote the works of authors such as Thoreau and Emerson in order to both analyze them, and then reflect how different modern life has become.... I hope to show in this entry my day-long journey to both realizing and reconnecting with the ideas of simplicity and nature.
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ReplyDeletei think that is a great idea!!!!1 AMAZING!!!!! i too enjoy reading those trashy not needed magazines. but i think that actually realizing what our society has come to with make it a really interesting topic. i definitly think you should incorperate a lot of thoreau, becuase alot of his ideas controdict what we see in many magazines. i really look forward to reading that, if you let me.