I need help writing two paragraphs on Thoreau as a Transcendental hero, referencing Walden, as well as other works.

Your question reminds me of an interesting contrast
between Thoreau and Emerson, both major Transcendentalists. Emerson sat by the fire,
thinking and writing about Transcendental philosophy, while Thoreau lived in a drafty
cabin and cut through the ice on Walden Pond in winter to observe that heaven is below
as well as above us. Emerson was a thinker; Thoreau was a thinker and a doer. He lived
his philosophies.

In writing about Thoreau as a
Transcendental hero, review the philosophical beliefs he outlined in
Walden and then establish the numerous ways he put them into
practice. Surely choosing personal deprivation in the pursuit of truth is heroic. As a
Harvard graduate, Thoreau could have pursued a comfortable life, teaching and
intellectualizing about philosophical matters. Instead he built his small cabin with his
own hands and lived a solitary life on Walden Pond throughout the seasons. He believed
intellectually, for instance, that truth is revealed through nature; at Walden he lived
in nature and personally observed those truths. In consulting secondary sources on
Thoreau, you will find other instances of his putting his beliefs into practice. Most
famous is his going to jail in an act of civil disobedience to protest
slavery.