The stigma of dumpster diving

Eric Thomas

Mrs. Parkinson

English 3B

5 April 2016

                                                          The stigma of dumpster diving

The stigma of homeless people is that there lives are always bad. That they have nothing in there day that makes them smile or to look forward to. The author Lars Eighner wrote an article On Dumpster diving that calls to change this stigma. He shows that the life of a homeless person is hard it is not completely without joy. For example he says "( Eighner 718) He finds pristine ice cream, still frozen, more than he can eat or keep. He begins to understand: People throw away perfectly good stuff" from this you can see how small things like a tub of ice cream could really make there day and even though they don't have much they feel lucky to find that and enjoy themselves. He also says "we both know there is plenty more where what we have came from. Between us are the rat- race millions who nightly scavenge the cable channels looking for they know not what." (Eighner 713) this quote shows how he thinks the life of a homeless person is full filling and ever changing while someone of the middle class leads a more boring life due to how entrenched they are in a daily routine.