![]() ![]() Thoreau's paternal grandfather, Jean Thoreau was a French immigrant who came to America in 1773, where he worked for Paul Revere and fought in the Revolutionary War. But this is also the New England particularly in Concord of intellectual rebellion and radical thought. This is a New England in which a Puritan heritage, with a strong worth ethic, focus on property, and belief in a strict set of religious rules, continues to play a part. At its largest, this intended audience is a New England audience an audience defined in some ways by a particular history, culture, and set of ideas. At its smallest, its intended audience is comprised of those Concord residents who had attended his lectures at the village lyceum and who had questions about the two years he had lived alone at Walden Pond. ![]() Thoreau's Walden was written for a very specific audience. ![]()
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