Read the passage below from Henry David Thoreau's essay “Walking.”…

Read the passage below from Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Walking.” Then write a well-supported essay in which you explain Thoreau’s purpose in writing this piece, identify the rhetorical and stylistic techniques he uses, and show how these techniques help him to achieve his purpose. What is it that makes it so hard sometimes to determine whither we will walk? i believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is an’ght way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk. never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world: and sometimes, no doubt, we ?nd it dif?cult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.