Read the excerpt from the “Conclusion” of Walden. I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
What belief about life is being described in this excerpt?
Individuals eventually learn to appreciate their surroundings.
Individuals who follow their dreams eventually attain them.
Cultures have a tendency to force their values on individuals.
As cultures change, individuals change along with them.

Individuals who follow their dreams eventually attain them.

Explanation:

In the excerpt, Walden starts off by stating '...if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.'

The answer is merely a simplified version of what Walden was explaining. You can snuff out keyword such as 'dreams' and 'meet' which mean the same as 'dreams' and 'attain'. The last two option are immediately eliminated as this passage mentioned nothing of cultures. And, the first option couldn't be the answer because the passage mentions nothing of surroundings, so that can be eliminated, leaving the last option as the most logical choice.

Individuals who follow their dreams eventually attain them.

Explanation:

arah orne jewett first published "a white heron" in her 1886 collection, "a white heron and other stories." this short story tells the tale of what happens when sylvia, a 9-year-old girl living deep in the forest with her grandmother, meets a young hunter looking to capture, and kill, the white heron living in sylvia's woods. the climax occurs when sylvia must decide whether to him or protect the bird.

rising action

leading up to the climax of the story, the nameless young hunter befriends sylvia and her grandmother, mrs. tilly. he explains to mrs. tilly that he is bent on "stuffing and preserving" a little white heron that he believes lives near their cottage. mrs. tilly offers up that "[t]here ain't a foot o' ground" that sylvia doesn't know and suggests that she may be able to him find the bird.

climax

after following, but not really , the young hunter on his search for the heron, sylvia slips out of bed alone in the middle of the night to find the heron for herself. perched at the top of a gigantic pine tree, sylvia spots the heron, and its nest, in a dead hemlock tree across the way. the following morning she returns home to find her grandmother and the hunter waiting for her at the door. in the moment when she plans to tell the hunter where to find the heron, she suddenly decides to protect the heron and remain silent; even the promise of much needed money does not sway her.

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