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The Walking

Walking was Thoreau's most favorite article. He read the piece than any other of his numerous lectures. In his introduction, he feels that he wanted to speak about nature. This paper is an Evaluative Rhetorical Analysis for the proposal submitted earlier on The Walking. It will content the analysis of the logos, ethos, pathos, and kairos of writing based on Thoreau's article.

Logos refers to the writer's use of words or the argument that carries his message. Thoreau’s argument qualifies in this case. He introduces his article by stating that he wishes to argue for nature. He says that ‘No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence, which are the capital in this profession’. Thoreau says that for a man to reach this freedom, he should take a walk to nature. The Walking to the Wild is what human need. He says that walking is an art which he also refers to as sauntering. He states that ‘Some, however, would derive the word from sans Terre, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering’.

He speaks to both males and females, the people who live in nature. Thoreau shows a desiring for nature that is hard to understand. he says that the mankind should seek to take even the shortest walk to the Wild. During this walk, a man should have an undying spirit of adventure, the feeling that he should never go back. His argument achieves its purpose. He says that a man who is ready for the nature walk should be willing to leave everything behind him.

On the other hand, ethos is a strategy of the most difficult decisions a man could make. It is a difficult to leave one's family, parents, friends, and relatives. He says that ‘It comes only by the grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers.’. His argument for nature comes from himself and his undying love for the Wild. This makes a reader to trust him. Also, the person feels forced to take walks and share Thoreau's experience. For example, he thinks that he can not keep his physical and spiritual healthy, if he does not spend at least four hours a day in the woods or the fields. He seems so satisfied with being free from all other daily engagements.

In addition, pathos refers to the ability of an article to appeal and show the emotional to readers. Thoreau's message about nature is more than appealing to read. He shows how people live confined in their shops and places of work, his argument effectively impacts the mind of a reader. He supposes that “How womankind, who are confined to the house still more than men, stand it I do not know; but I have ground to suspect that most of them do not Stand it at all.”. Effectively, Thoreau achieves this by giving real life experiences. For example, he made notices that even the animals do not lose their wild habits. He writes “my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pasture early in the spring and boldly swims the river, a cold, gray tide, twenty-five or thirty rods wide, swollen by the melted snow. It is the buffalo crossing the Mississippi.”. In my opinion, his argument clearly enables him to achieve his goal.

Finally, kairos is the strategy used to analyze the things of an argument in the article. This tells that the message is in agreement with current issues. Currently, man has become so busy with work that he has no time for anything. The world became a global village with strong economies from East to West. The jobs made mankind to spend all the time working. Thoreau's argument encourage the man's mind about his lack of interest in nature. He says that “…will cause a thicker cuticle to grow over some of the finer qualities of our nature, as on the face and hands, or as severe manual labor robs the hands of some of their delicacy of touch.” Thoreau's argument can only be termed like a diamond of writing. It allowed him to achieve his objective as well as supporting his argument.

Works Cited

Walking by Henry David Thoreau; Published in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 9, Issue 56, pg. 657-674. 1862