Strangers In The Dumpster: A Short Story

In 1993, Lars Eighner, a homeless college dropout, published his memoir titled Travels with Lizbeth. Within, an essay titled “On Dumpster Diving” shares his experiences and how they define his identity. Eighner views identity not solely on his status of a scavenger, but rather on how his experiences shape his identity and how he acts despite his circumstances. Similarly, as a student, my own identity is not based on my status, but rather on how my behavior is shaped in my situations. The identities of individuals are defined by how they live, how they react, and how they behave in all circumstances, not on their status or profession.

Robert Gilbert used to be not poor but not rich until he went to Las Vegas and gambled all of his money away. He went with his friends Josh and Jerry which were his only friends, but they did not spend all of there money there, like Robert did. Robert was not a well liked guy he was always in a bad mood and always telling everybody how good he was, He only had 2 people that liked him in his whole town. His mom and dad died about 6 years ago when they both got into a car accident coming home from going out for dinner that evening when a drunk driver hit them head on.

Nic Laycock J.Berte Composition 1 FD16 Summary and Analysis On Dumpster Diving Lars Eighner’s “On Dumpster Diving” (Published is a first person informative essay that explores the art of Dumpster diving. Almost presented as a user guide or instructional piece his key message is about the wastefulness of consumers and the shallowness of materialism. About a year before he became homeless, Eighner began sourcing all of his life necessities from dumpsters because of a lack of money as all his income was spent on rent. He makes the claim that it is possible to survive and be content with life simply by living off the refuse and waste of others.

He flipped a sign on the front of his desk that said “Back in 10 minutes”, and motioned for Louise to follow him. They waded through the mass of people until they were outside.

"Blake, are you kidding me? Again!" Weiss yelled as she saw the stuffing spilling out of a pillow from claw marks. "I'm sorry. Its a habit!" Blake was about to continue on with her apology, but Weiss cut her off. "Its a problem! You've cause a hundred dollars of damage in one month!" Weiss sighed. "Since Yang and Ruby don't care about the mutilation of our furniture at all, I'm going to have to stop you. Blake, one more incedent, and I'm sending you to the pound." Blake scanned Weiss's face for any sign that she was jesting, but found that she was being completely serious.

Ludwig turned to look him in the eye. “I asked how they were. I expect an answer.”

"All of you besides Rachel," Chiron began, giving Rachel an unamused stare when she snorted at her being excluded from the trip. " and Thalia and Nico." He finished.

She had been warned that prisoners often tried to con visitors. He appeared to realize this, subsequently telling her, “I am just a simple man. Nothing else. And to most other people a convicted killer looking for someone to manipulate.”

A long time ago, a clouded leopard, named Gilbert, wanted to take a trip all by himself. He figured he was old enough to go alone. Although he didn’t want to take just any old trip like all the other clouded leopards, he wanted to go to the sky! Gilbert started to search for the tallest tree he could find. Once he found it, he climbed all the way up to the tippy top. He then stretched his paw as far as he could to reach for the clouds. He pulled himself up through the cloud. He was finally in the sky!

Over the next few weeks, Gilbert continued to track down sources. Many of them, including the Barbees, remained convinced that Willingham was guilty, but several of his friends and relatives had doubts. So did some people in law enforcement. Willingham’s former probation officer in Oklahoma, Polly Goodin, recently told me that Willingham had never demonstrated bizarre or sociopathic behavior. “He was probably one of my favorite kids,” she said. Even a former judge named Bebe Bridges—who had often stood, as she put it, on the “opposite side” of Willingham in the legal system, and who had sent him to jail for stealing—told me that she could not imagine him killing his children. “He was polite, and he seemed to care,” she said. “His convictions had been for dumb-kid stuff. Even the things stolen weren’t significant.” Several months before the fire, Willingham tracked Goodin down at her office, and proudly showed her photographs of Stacy and the kids. “He wanted Bebe and me to know he’d been doing good,” Goodin recalled.

When Sean Cole walked the streets of Queens on that fateful day, little did he know the course of his life was going to change for good. Walking home, he saw the town with new eyes. He asked himself, “Is there no way to properly dispose refuse in Queens?”

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.

After they told the plan, Joan the witch secretly hypnotized the guards and they snuck inside the castle. Once they got inside the castle they snuck around trying not to get caught by anyone. Once they finally reached Grunk’s room they confronted him and arrested him. Once it was finally over they left the manor for good to live without working and worrying about Grunk. What they realized was that when Grunk was young he was always bullied and kicked. He hated it so much that he would find a chance to do it on someone and once he got the manor he decided to be mean to all of the peasants. They decided to release him, and a new lord took his place. “Finally”, Peter said.”There is now peace and prosperity throughout the manor.” He had hoped

Austria and Prussia have been friends with benefits for centuries. It’s only in the 40s, when Roderich feared Prussia would die after his country had been erased, that he finally confessed having feelings for him. And Prussia admitted it, too.

breakfast be back in a few minutes." "Ok I'll be ready by then," I said. My parents left