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What I Lived For Summary & Study Guide Description
What I Lived For Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Joyce Carol Oates takes the title of this novel from a chapter tide in Henry "David Thoreau's Walden (1854), "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For." Lurking behind Thoreau's description of his simple life that made him fully awake to the sustaining power of nature is his protest against the materialism and exploitation of nineteenth-century America.
He was not just escaping to Walden Pond but also escaping from a...
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