The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a literary piece about a man named Henry David Thoreau. He wrote "If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." This, simply put, means that if the law says to do something that will unjustly hurt another, do not do it. Thoreau felt this way about the Mexican War. Therefore he put what he believed to action, and did not pay taxes to the United States government because of the Mexican War. For this act of civil disobedience, he was thrown in Jail. What about this cause that took place that Henry David Thoreau so strongly disbelieved in? What about this Mexican War?…
