Thursday, January 10, 2008

on dumpster diving

Read Lars Eighner’s On Dumpster Diving (in 50 Essays) and evaluate it as a piece of descriptive journalism in a 200-300 word blog post.

Eighner (E) gives a descriptive tail of not only his fascination with dumpsters, but his survival need of them. He informs the reader that he gets his life's ecessities (ecxer for jeans he mentions) from dumpsters. E is careful to use only the best terms to describe dumpsters and the "art" of dumpster diving.
After describing his own dumpster diving life experience, E goes on to describe the route peope take in becoming dumpster dvers themselves, a bit of a generic whats what, and who's who. E gives a tale of a typical dumpster diver and the journey he/she takes to become where they are in life. Not many people willingly choose the life of a dumpster diver, but then embrace their situation as time goes on.
A good quote i think is, "I think of scavenging as the modern form of self-reliance." E has turned his dumpster shyness into openmindedness. And he makes sure to show his patronage to dumpsers by always capitalizing the D on dumpster.

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