Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

rating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i w

D. By showing that he is willing to go to jail for his beliefs.

A appeal to ethos is an appeal on ethical grounds. This type of appeal presents the author as someone credible and worth listening to, in order to make his argument more persuasive. Thoreau believes in resistance to government, and he carries it out by not paying taxes for six years. By showing that he is willing to go to jail for his beliefs, he is more likely to convince people that his argument is moral and worth listening to.

C.It uses his personal experience of civil disobedience to build ethos.

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It is impossible to take away peoples’ freedom just by locking them up.

Thoreau believes that just because you lock up someone's physical being doesn't mean that they are not free. He states in the passage that the townspeople outside of the prison had a more difficult wall "to climb or break through before they could be as free as [he] was." He says that he did not feel confined by the walls that imprisoned him. Throughout this passage, he is stating that he is still free even though his "flesh and blood and bones" were locked up.