Henry David Thoreau's View On The Elderly
Henry David Thoreau’s point of view on the elderly, based on a passage from Walden, is almost completely false. To say that the elderly have no worthy advice to give the young is absurd. While younger generations will always advance themselves further in technology and life, they cannot do this without the help of their seniors. Thoreau begins this passage by saying that what someone says is true today may not turn out to be true tomorrow; while this is sometimes true, it doesn’t mean that one shouldn’t listen because what was said is believed to be true for a reason. The people that give the advice say what they say because they have been through what they’re talking about and that’s the only way to have knowledge about something, to live