Comparison Of The Tiny House Movement

The New Trend Around 76% of Americans will live their lives paying monthly bills for their homes. The Tiny House Movement is a trending movement where many Americans are moving to a much smaller home ranging from 100-400 square feet built either mobile or on land. Many examples from articles, documentaries, and novels help to understand what the movement actually is, who are apart of this movement, and recognize the reason of the popularity of this movement.

Anyone is able to live in a tiny house; the Tiny House Movement applies to everyone, regardless of social class, gender, age, and race. In the novel Into the Wild Chris McCandless is an idealist and well-educated young man that graduated with honors at Emory University. He had a family: mother, father, and many siblings, was raised in the suburbs located in Washington, D.C., and had a well-income lifestyle. McCandless chose to live the lifestyle to live in a tiny home out in the wilderness, with his choosing. In comparison, in the novel Walden on Wheels Ken Ilgunas was a young man alternating from universities to then graduate from Duke University with a liberal arts degree and also had a family: mother and father. Also, Henry David Thoreau, in his short story “Where I lived and What I lived for” he “was a philosopher, poet, essayist, and naturalist as well as an outspoken social critic…and was educated at Harvard” (276). Thoreau also had an education and had many professions, but he as well chose to live in a tiny home. McCandless, Ilgunas, and Thoreau

The Tiny House Movement is a movement where many people are living a small home for many personal reasons. Not just because they are poor or homeless, they want to have better living style that is right for them. Anyone can be apart of this movement if they wish regardless of social class, gender, age, and race. Many examples from articles, documentaries, and novels help to understand and recognize the popularity of the Tiny House