Walden Life In The Woods Thesis

The main thesis of “Walden; or, Life in the Woods” by Henry David Thoreau, is that people do not need a life of luxury to survive, all they need is the necessities. Personally, what “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” by Henry David Thoreau, has to do with me is that I rent my home because I cannot afford to buy a house. In “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” Thoreau explains to his fellow New Englanders that they appear to be “doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.” He is talking about the way they are busy working but never seem to finish any labor.
For Thoreau, the economic class that is the most terribly impoverished class of all is the wealthy. The thing that makes them so poor is their wealth, how they rely on money and material objects.
They commenced their first dwelling-houses by digging a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, six or seven feet deep, as long and as broad as they thought proper, cased the earth inside with wood all-round the walls, and lined the wood with the bark of trees or something else to prevent the caving in of the earth; floored the cellar with planks, and wainscot it overhead for a ceiling, raise a roof of spars clear up, and covered the spars with bark or green sods, so that they could live dry and warm in these houses with their entire families for two, three and four years. They did this in order not to waste time in building, and not to want food the next season. Also in order not to discourage poor laboring people whom they brought over from the Fatherland.
“Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” addresses things my family and myself care about and consider important to the world. It also passes the who cares test. It does this because Thoreau talks about how people live a life of luxury instead of living a simple life. Also how owning a house is expensive and is paid for with your