Stay In Jail Rhetorical Analysis

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Stay in Jail: Eye Opener

Henry David Thoreau was a transcendentalist, “a writer or thinker who “believed in something that transcended the limits of sensory experience—in other words, something that transcended materialism” (720). He wrote the essay, “Civil Disobedience,” in which he said that people should disobey unjust government laws; That they have moral duty to disobey the government if their conscience dictates that the law is said to be unjust. Thoreau states, “Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong but conscience” (724)? As a form of protest, he refuses to pay his taxes and is put in jail. While in jail Thoreau learns a lot about the full experience of being in jail. He converses
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