Lars Eighner, in his story “On Dumpster Diving” shows readers that things have different value to different people. It is about his life as a homeless, finding things in dumpster that people have thrown out which is trash to them. In the beginning he was living in the shack with his dog called Lizibeth. He was fascinated by dumpsters. He started dumpster diving as he would call “scavenging” when he began to run out of money from his savings. Throughout the story he talks about the objects, food, clothing, that he would find in the dumpsters that were perfectly good to use. At the end he talks about how he started valuing the items that he would find because they were more than just objects. They had a sentimental value to him. He shows us how
