second reflection

LIU WEI LI             S3-09            05/06/12

Living large in a tiny house

             The main issue of this article is that a family who used to live in a 1500 square foot  

home has to give up their house because of their financial problems. The father of the family built a house of 168 square foot house on his home and saved the family a lot of money. They planned to build a larger house in the future. 

             I think this is an article in financial magazine. The purpose of this article is to show the story of this family to people as an example. The writer wrote this article to tell people that it is not extremely necessary to live in such big houses. If you have any financial problems right now, try smaller the size of your house. That will save you a lot of money. Basically, this article is to tell those people who are in a financial problem a way of saving money. 

            The point of view that is presented in the article is from the writer. He agrees that anyone who has financial problems should try this measure to save money and overcome the financial problems. The writer represents his financially fits team which tries to help people solve their financial problems. 

              The tone of this article is supportive. It is easy to tell from the writer’s tone that he support this kind of measure to save money. This is supported by the example he gives us. 

He keeps talking about the advantage of the family downsizing their house.He also talks about the how good the family’s future will be if they keep using this measure.

             In my opinion, this article is very helpful for people to learn how to downsizing their life. The financial problem is becoming more and more serious this year especially in some particular country such as America and some countries in Europe. People living there have to give up their old lifestyle and start to change. However, it is not very easy for them to give up their old lifestyle because that was more comfortable. The writer of this article introduced a very good way for them to start-making their house smaller. The writer even gives a real example of living in a much smaller house and how that benefits and solve the family’s problem. This example makes the way that the writer is talking about more reliable.