Identifying sections in Eighner’s Essay

May 6, 2008

Eighner thoroughly explains how to dumpster dive along with possible situations and also adds personal stories throughout his essay.  His piece is divided into these parts:

  • Opening: a background of Dumpsters and his obsession
  • The word scavenging and how that fits more appropriately
  • His background and how he got into dumpster diving
  • Eating in dumpsters and methods
  • Canned foods
  • Food poisoning and old food
  • Dry foods, raw and candy
  • Personal story on leftover pizzas
  • Students and dumpsters near them
  • Opened things, dairy products, drinks, meats
  • Home cooked and ethnic foods
  • Dysentery
  • Learning to scavenge, strategies of dumpster diving
  • Finding good dumpsters and creating a routine
  • Can scroungers
  • Business dumpsters-not personal ones
  • Important documents found in dumpsters
  • Stories from people who dump
  • Vermin and other gross things-fire ants
  • Ways to get in
  • His experience and happiness along with his closing

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