Jan 7

1.In the last part of the paragraph, writer tells us he thinks of the day with the wind blowing freely and forever. The blowing wind makes writer feels like staying in the heaven which is quiet and holy. Staying in the blowing wind is like being in the heaven without not much extra things. The paragraph is talking about how his life will be in his new house too. So if air can blow through his house, he can feel like being in the quiet nature himself again.

2.
1)To live so sturdily and Spartan- like so that he can suck out the marrow of the life. Hard life can let him find the origin meaning of life directly .
2)Living in such a simple life enable him to find out what is ensential to him and what he can live without. It teaches him how to choose to live.

3.
1)"though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail."
2)Because he mainly talked about life in this article .What he thinks living should be is to be simple. For example, blowing wind and living in the wood seems very simple and boring, but only this can make he understand where he lives and what he lives for. Simple life could mean we live for ourselves not others, we could live simplly withour caring so much about other things; we should not be controlled by the life.


What is the purpose for us to do such much things?Does it work for us or are we working for it?