Acsher purpose, speaker, and intended audience isn’t evident until the end of the essay. Her main reason and purpose or writing the essay seems to be first that a way of defeating loneliness is to become your own best friend, and second to explain that even a homeless man can have dignity and can achieve self satisfaction . She depicts this when she describes him standing “unselfconsciously” tossing boxes aside. This shows he that even a homeless man is too good for a box demonstrating dignity. She then references Boxcar Child to endorse The Box man’s life and how he’s defeated his loneliness, and lives a more free and liberated life than the average person.
Eigher’s writing is very persuasive because he describes scavenging as being “surprisingly pleasant”, unpredictable, and rewarding. Scavenging makes you independent and self- sufficient. A lot of knowledge is required to separate what is garbage and what is not, also what is needed and what is something simply being held on to. Eighner ultimately states how dumpster diving has provided him with two valuable lessons and a different way of perceiving ones trash. Hold onto what is needed and set aside the rest for someone who may need it more.
He isconvinced that a lot of perfectly good food is discarded. Canned goods turnup fairly often in dumpsters and are among the safest foods. However, somecanned foods can cause fatal diseases like botulism. Dried foods such ascrackers, cookies, cereal, chips and pasta are usually safe to eat, once theyare free from visible contaminates. Raw fruits and vegetables are usuallysafe, except for the rotten ones.
Although the man is ethically wrong because he is stealing, he is morally right because he is providing for his family. A utilitarian would see that although the man has caused harm to one entity, the grocery store, he has helped three others at a minimum of harm. Unfortunately, not all theories are as forgiving as utilitarianism. Virtue ethics adopts the view that you should strive for excellence in every facet of your life, both moral and nonmoral (Boylan, 2009, p. 133). As an example, a grocery store clerk who reports the father from the previous example to the police would be in violation of utilitarian ideology, but would find approval in virtue ethics.
He gave “Dumpster Diving” a whole new meaning. To start off, Lars Eighner doesn’t just grab any old scrap he finds. He is rather cautious about the food he eats in order to avoid getting sick. He uses three different principles when scavenging for food. His senses and common sense to evaluate the food, knowing the dumpsters of a given area and checking them regularly, and always answering the question “why was this discarded?” For example, there was a time where he would survive off of a dumpster behind a pizzeria.
They tend to do this by talking like others, buy knock off brand versions of what the rich buy, and go to places where the rich go. People often overlook the lesser things of life because a small part of the human mind doesn’t want to see the bad things that hide in the dark to live a happy, blissful, ignorant life. Poverty-stricken Americans do not hide away; they can be seen but because of consignment stores and places like Walmart, they don’t overly stand out and can be ignored easily enough. In the story, “Dumpster Diving,” Lars Eighner tends to be ignored by others as he scavenges through dumpsters searching
Its what makes us unique. It gives him good ideas to help the boys get off the island(or at least attempts). Piggy would always clean his glasses, when someone asked a question. He wiped them as a sign of Clarity, as if the wiping of his glasses gave him the answer to the question. Piggy’s glasses were effective by Keeping the boys sane.
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