Analysis Of Lars Eigner's Dumpster Diving

Home. Home is not a fruit of materialism; Home is a place which not only provides and sustains one's lifestyle, but one which he can return to everyday filled with contentment and satisfaction. Lars Eigner began Dumpster diving a year before the eviction of a "home", has found a fondness, a fulfillment, a justice in Dumpster diving. Frankly, Eigner has no physical "home", but nonetheless he has a life, one which he pleasures himself, and in this life he finds true tranquility intertwined with prosperity. Eighner's experience in both worlds of living, upon which to criticize and reflect allows him to decisively teach to the audience of true necessity, employ multiple povs unjustified haves and have-nots, and the profound intuition it lends …show more content…
From our point of view, generally middle class, we would likely place Eigner in this impoverished group of "Dumpster divers", and clearly he accepts the stereotypical generalization, Eigner is a "Scavenger, [He thinks] it a sound and honorable niche". The mere fact that he is a dumpster diver, homeless as well, forges credibly to explain and fortify his knowledge and experience, then ridicules "can scroungers [who} lay waste to everything", also calling them "winos and drug addict" which draws a fine line between the civil behaviors of his own "kind". He needs this fine line to attract the educated classes, but also to redirect any previous contempt against his lifestyle. Throughout he is a teacher, but near the end he dabbles in a philosophical point of view calling Dumpster diving "a modern form of self reliance" which in comparison "to most other pursuits tends to yield returns”. Teachers are highly respected, but philosophers are believed to be masters of reason and behavior of all things, philosophy allows Eigner to rise above in an intellectual sense choking the reader into a vice grip of credibility with is not easy to let