Analysis Of Strangers In The Dumpster

Homelessness is increasing every year and effecting Americans of different age, ethnicity and religion. In Lars Eighner “On Dumpster Diving” he explains what he went through while being homeless. He describes how and what foods someone should be looking for and to always be conscious of what one is eating because there is always a reason why something has been thrown out. He continues to go into detail about other items that can be found in the dumpster like sheets to sleep on and pieces of paper to write on. Things that can keep him busy through the day. Eighner carefully explains to his readers how being a dumpster diver has become a life style for the homeless and this is how they survive. It’s a way of living and they are comfortable

In Lars Eighner’s short essay “On Dumpster Diving”, he describes his experience of being homeless and the art of dumpster driving. Eighner prefers being referred to as a scavenger rather than a dumpster driver. Eighner stated “I like the frankness of the word scavenging. I live from refuse of others. I am a scavenger.” (383) He describes scavenging as a full time job, that requires a lot of effort. He believes that if one follows certain guidelines and rules, with doing so this could possibly help one to become efficient. One rule is knowing good place and time to look for food and other items, that could be useful. Another rule is knowing how to eat safely from a dumpster . Eighner said

of men who gather every thursday in the presence of a man we only know by the name of the “Time Traveller.” The unnamed group of men discuss a wide array of topics and issues of the 19th century. As we read deeper into the contents of the book, we learn about the Time Traveler's interest in the subject of time travelling and his remarkable work (an example of this is his small model for the time machine he has created). The group of men dismiss the Time Traveler's story and full functioning prototype, quoting “He is a man too clever to be trusted” (“The Time Machine”). The following thursday, the group of men congregate at the Time Traveler's home, withe the Time Traveller nowhere to be found. The Time Traveller eventually returns with tales of the future - Morlocks, Eloi, the Great White Sphynx and more! According to the Traveller, he enters the year

In the movie “What’s eating Gilbert Grape”, Gilbert, who is also an important character in this movie. He has a little bit long brown hair and a high nose. He is good-looking and he isn’t very tall. He has rough face with blue eyes. He is strong but thin. He has a family and he worked to feed this family.

Imagine living on the street. Wow that would be pretty hard and not very pleasant either. Many people won’t even know what to do. Most of them will be depressed and will give up on life. Lars Eighner who lived on the streets is totally different from other people who live on the street. Many of those people are dumb, strange, and always yell at other for no reasons. Society looks at these kids of people and think that they are not going to make it anywhere in life. Well appearance can be deceiving. Lars Eighner survived living on the streets because his characteristic was different from others. He was smart, moral, and a proud person who made his way through tough times.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are one of the best days for consumers in America, because everything is on sale with an unbelievable low price. According to CNN Money, business made over 50 billion dollars in the year of 2013 after these special sales event in America. In these special occasions, people purchase product base on the recommendation of the media. When consumers realized that they have no use of the product or an improved new product releases, the old product will end up in a dumpster. Americans will create environmental problem and outbreak of resource war if they continue wasting Earth’s source base on their lavish lifestyle, in which it is supported by their culture and the lack of appreciation.

After enduring five long years in the past helping runaway slaves without Dana by his side, Kevin finally travels back home to the present. Already familiarized with the past, Kevin struggles to readjust to the present: “I found him fiddling with the stove, turning the burners on, staring into the blue flame, turning them off, opening the oven, peering in... ‘If I’m not home yet, maybe I don't have a home’” (Butler 190). Kevin struggles to adjust to the present when he travels back from the past. He is confused by the modern technology

He had a lot of tough problems, such as , he went to Wallace store, where his mother told her not to go, to fight with T.J. He was mad at T.J., because Stacey tried to take away T.J.’s cheat sheet and teacher thought that the cheat sheet is Stacey’s. So his mother whipped him in front of everybody. However, his characteristics were brave, bossy, independent, and

I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school” (Joyce 2). The narrator is prioritizing going to the market instead of going to school and continuing with his everyday routines, shows his lack of maturity. The narrator fails to see his vanity as he is mesmerized by the girl. Setting himself up for shattering of his fantasies by reality once he reaches the market. The boy in “A Sunrise on the Veld” is leading himself to this false hope of being able to decide his fate. Portending that something traumatic will happen. By having this misconception of having the capacity to control his destiny/fate he will endure an overwhelming truth. When the boy is running in the forest after leaving his house, he feels as if he free and alive. The boy says, “There was nothing he couldn’t do, nothing!...He felt his life ahead of him as a great and wonderful thing, something that was his...I can change everything that is going to happen” (Lessing 5). An evident example of how he emotionally immature he was, but after the event with the buck he becomes mature. The quote shows his vanity as he thinks very highly of himself, he believes he is invincible. The lesson being taught is to think ambitiously

Thus so, I came to a revelation one evening whilst pondering my own existence. I have no real control of time. The past is unchangeable and the future equally uncontrollable. I have power over the present, but the present with every second that passes. What am I supposed to do about that? I can’t fight the natural passage of time! As much as this upsets me, it lead to my making unspoken promise to myself that I’m going to grow up and be better. I’m a firm believer in self-improvement, and although no one is perfect, I’m still running that course. There will come a day when I have to stop running away from my issues. I hope that there will also be a day when I’m at peace with that.

“Now your father is far from that adjective, and as far as Freddie is concerned, he is on a mission. But not to save the girl from the past, he is going back to save himself. To find what he lost some time ago, something that’s been missing deep in his soul. Something he must face, and there is nothing you or I can do to change that, if he is lucky, he will get that chance.”

Back at home, the party has already started. Gilbert goes to find Arnie first, and Arnie has already forgiven him. His sisters are still very mad and tell him he needs to go talk to their mother. When he does she tells him how wrong it was for him to have done what he did to Arnie, and then starts crying and pleading for him to not leave again. She was afraid he would not come back. Later on, when Becky arrives, Gilbert takes her to see his mother. Because their truck has been fixed, she and her grandmother leave town after the party ends. The next day, Bonnie climbs the stairs to go to her bedroom for the first time in years; she dies later that night.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, Clarice Addington, a widow, takes responsibility for a young boy on October 30, 1857. The boy was her grandson, Haywood Addington. Young Haywood’s mother slipped away into a curious sickness and his father vanished silently. Despite the circumstances, his grandmother was faithful and loving while raising him. The arrival of the young Haywood Addington was the best thing that ever happened to her since 1846. Clarice has also experienced the pain of death like her grandson has. Her husband Victor suddenly died about ten years prior to Haywood's arrival. Victor was a successful businessman and was very blessed financially.

On travelling to the future he finds that this new world is never what he expected, as he feels vulnerable and ‘naked in a strange world.’ like he had been born again into a strange world he knew

Mr. Compson says to Quentin “I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, June Second, 1910