The Alone in the Wilderness Video

It starts off with a man who is about fifty years old. He decides to go out into the wilderness and live alone for a while. This alone shows a sign of Transcendentalism. He is off to live alone in nature where his mind can be tranquil with God. So he builds himself a home out of wood. This is another sign of Transcendentalism because he is being independent and doing all the work alone. Transcendentalists believed that relying on other people meant that you were weak and that you were not being the person that God meant for you to be. The man ended up living in the woods by himself for 35 years before he gave up his home and went back to live with other people.