We completed our in depth analysis of Thoreau's Walden by exploring Thoreau's definition and perception of wealth and poverty and further parsing the metaphors that Thoreau employs to argue his principles. I again noted Thoreau's influence on protagonists in American literature. After reviewing Joshua's homework on Walden , I distributed a number of quotations from Walden and as a writing exercise Joshua chose a quotation and ,with my assistance, began drafting a paragraph explaining how the selected quote exemplifies an aspect of the Transcendentalist philosophy.