Lars Eighner Dumpster Diving

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Lars Eighner’s memoir, he wrote, “Long before I began Dumpster diving I was impressed with Dumpsters, enough so that I wrote the Merriam-Webster research service to discover what I could about the word “Dumpster.” […]” (Eighner 139). This quote means that, living in a dumpster was really essential for him that he basically needed a place to live and eat and living in a dumpster that he symbolizes it as his “home”. This is because if there were no dumpsters for him, he will most likely suffer and could possibly die without it that living in a dumpster helped him to survive those needs and wants to eat, live and collect. On the other hand, the style of Lars Eighner’s memoir, “On Dumpster Diving” is showing diction of how he and his dog, Lizbeth was living in a dumpster by describing some Dumpster diving terms of how he applies and uses it that he states, “I prefer the term “scavenging” and use the word “scrounging” when I mean to be obscure. I have heard people, evidently meaning to be polite, using the word “foraging,” but I prefer to reserve to reserve that word gathering nuts and berries and such which I do also according to the season and the opportunity. "Dumpster diving" seems to me to be a little too cute and, in my case, inaccurate because I lack the athletic ability to lower myself into the Dumpsters as the true divers do, much to their increased profit. I like the frankness of the word "scavenging,"

What caught my attention while reading this profile is, not only did someone make the conscious decision to live in a dumpster but that someone is a dean and professor of a University. I found his dumpster living profile interesting for many reasons. This is a person who could afford an apartment or a house, yet they chose to live in a dumpster. Another interesting point that drew me in was that he didn’t immediately renovate the dumpster to make himself comfortable. He was “dumpster camping” as he called it, slept on cardboard, no heating or cooling unit, and without electricity or water running to the dumpster. He’s slowly customizing his space, he’s added an AC unit, installed a false floor, an air mattress and added some decorations.

There are many people who choose to live their life based on what they find in dumpsters. You can spot them almost anywhere because there is a great population of them. Many people that see one of these ‘dumpster divers’ view them as disgusting or inappropriate to society. People are quick to judge others when they do not relate to how they live their life. ¨On Dumpster Diving¨ by Lars Eighner is a short excerpt from his memoir “Travels with Lizbeth”, he begins to explain that dumpster diving is not a bad activity as most view it as. He talks from a dumpster diver’s perspective, and tries to prove that dumpster diving is resourceful. Eighner applies the three rhetorical appeals to establish his argument that dumpster diving is an ¨honorable niche¨, although he uses ethos the most to support his position.

Eighner has written an article called “On Dumpster Diving” were he talks about the life of dumpster diving and about all the valuable things people throw away. In his article, he mentions college student and all the things they throw out. Mainly how they throw out fresh food and things they just don’t need anymore. Many college students do tend to throw out fresh food when the semester is about to end or when they are going on break, they also throw away things they don’t want their parents to see. Eighner makes his points reasonable when he talks about college students and the items they throw away, but it seems like he was being a bit harsh on his points, making college students seem selfish and like if they only go to college to act wild.

Now, there is another angle. There are animals that love the dumpster. It is their den, they find carcasses and rotten delicacies. These could be rats or even vultures. They do not complain, neither do they listen when other animals request for clean air. In fact, some of them are skunks; they bask in their own fart.

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