6/1/2023 0 Comments From rats by robert sullivan![]() ![]() Sullivan calls upon Thoreau’s Walden before the reader has a chance to engage the story. ![]() ![]() Analyzing Sullivan’s text alongside Walden, we’ll find both successes and shortcomings and will try to shine light into the dark alley that Sullivan considered his Walden Pond. Sullivan, a native New Yorker, seeks to engulf himself in the creature’s habitats, as Thoreau did, and attempts to become a modern day, urban version of Thoreau himself. ![]() He intends to gather information about these rats in a way that reminds us of the great observer, Henry David Thoreau, and his text, Walden. In Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants, Robert Sullivan brings us his experience observing the rat species Rattus norvegicus, better known as the brown rat, in one of its favorite habitats: an alley in downtown New York City. ![]()
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