Dumpster Diver
Dumpster Diver
Throughout life, everyone faces hardships. Whether you are faced with illness or disease, poverty, or anything that can cause a problem within your everyday life, no one gets out without going through something rough. Examples of a hardship are shown in the reading “My Daily Dives in the Dumpster” by Lars Eighner. The author tells us about his personal experience of being homeless and the constant struggle to search for things like food and other necessities just to stay alive. The average person complains about pointless things everyday like how they look ugly in an outfit, or their hair didn’t come out the way they wanted it to, or they don’t like the food that is being served to them; just think about someone like the author of this passage who has nothing and still manages to keep a positive attitude. Be grateful for what you do have, and pray for the ones who struggle. In the short passage “My Daily Dive in the Dumpster” by Lars Eighner, he tells the story of the personal struggle that he went through with being homeless. The author was once an attendant in a mental institution in the 1980’s, but lost his job. You think that living off of other people’s garbage is gross, but Eighner explains to us that the stage of being grossed out shortly passes after being desperate for food and clothes, etc. For example, when the author says, “This stage passes with experience. The scavenger finds a pair of running shoes that fit and look and smell brand new. He finds a pocket calculator in perfect working order. He finds pristine ice cream, still frozen, more than he can eat or keep. He begins to understand: people do throw away perfectly good stuff, a lot of perfectly good stuff” (Eighner 322). This quote shows and supports examples of when you’re desperate, you do realize that anything works, and people throw away perfectly good things. Though the author tells a sad story, he seemed to stay positive throughout his journey. “I like the frankness of
Throughout life, everyone faces hardships. Whether you are faced with illness or disease, poverty, or anything that can cause a problem within your everyday life, no one gets out without going through something rough. Examples of a hardship are shown in the reading “My Daily Dives in the Dumpster” by Lars Eighner. The author tells us about his personal experience of being homeless and the constant struggle to search for things like food and other necessities just to stay alive. The average person complains about pointless things everyday like how they look ugly in an outfit, or their hair didn’t come out the way they wanted it to, or they don’t like the food that is being served to them; just think about someone like the author of this passage who has nothing and still manages to keep a positive attitude. Be grateful for what you do have, and pray for the ones who struggle. In the short passage “My Daily Dive in the Dumpster” by Lars Eighner, he tells the story of the personal struggle that he went through with being homeless. The author was once an attendant in a mental institution in the 1980’s, but lost his job. You think that living off of other people’s garbage is gross, but Eighner explains to us that the stage of being grossed out shortly passes after being desperate for food and clothes, etc. For example, when the author says, “This stage passes with experience. The scavenger finds a pair of running shoes that fit and look and smell brand new. He finds a pocket calculator in perfect working order. He finds pristine ice cream, still frozen, more than he can eat or keep. He begins to understand: people do throw away perfectly good stuff, a lot of perfectly good stuff” (Eighner 322). This quote shows and supports examples of when you’re desperate, you do realize that anything works, and people throw away perfectly good things. Though the author tells a sad story, he seemed to stay positive throughout his journey. “I like the frankness of