Ben Marakovits
Parkinson
English III
5 April 2016
Serious topics usually have emotion flying all around them and you often feel bad when the topic of homeless people is brought up. Some people turn their heads in discus when they see trash and of course when people are jumping into dumpsters. There is a lot of things we don't know abuot the art of dumpster diving, and many mysterys surround it and how it is done. In the book On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner infuses pathos into his writing by saying "Dumpster things are often sad- abandoned teddy bears, shredded wedding books, despaired-of sales kits" (Eighner). When first reading this the line saying abandoned teddy bears really got to me because I jusr got an image of a little kid who drops their teddy bear and they are screaming for their parents, but the parents are busy and don't have time to go back. Then it gets the gears turning, somebody who is going through trash trying to survive is saying these things are sad when they have so much more than him. This really shows the pathos that whoever you are, rich or poor, you have a heart.
