Thoreau had inhabited by himself in a tiny house with very few essential. If people were to live their life as the same concept that Thoreau had it wouldn't work out well. People tend to be with companions rather than be alone. Since Thoreau had no one else he had to gather the amount of food that he would want to consume. Meanwhile, John Field had a spouse and multiple children and he had additional than 2 people …show more content…
The Field family must’ve been healthy at a reasonable level. The family were of all sorts of ages, heights, and weight and considering that they need to be healthy. Children need certain food in order to grow. Elderly people in lots of fiber in order for their bone to be strong. Thoreau had been well off for the fact that he only had to collect food for himself, while Field encountered an arduous trying to acquiring food. Thoreau had made a conversation with John just before John was about to leave to get food, “"Do you ever fish?" I asked. "Oh yes, I catch a mess now and then when I am lying by; good perch I catch. — "What's your bait?" "I catch shiners with fishworms, and bait the perch with them." "You'd better go now, John," said his wife, with glistening and hopeful face; but John