Thoreau's Travel Through Time with Three representory objects

Through the miracle of technology today, young Henry David Thoreau (seventeen years old) has been brought forward in time to present day. Henry David Thoreau has come to present day with three possessions that reflect his personality, character and concerns.
For his personality he carries a piece of steel. He carries this piece of steel because for a period of time he lived in the woods. He moved into the woods, “to live deliberately, to front only the essential factors of life.” So that when it did come to the point in his life when he would depart from this world he wouldn’t lay there feeling he hadn’t lived. To do this it takes great will and courage to drop technology that today we hold so dear and depend upon. I feel the piece of steel reflects this in his personality.
For his character he carries a law book but t...