Hannah Neese
English IIIB
Mrs. Parkinson
13 April 2016
On Dumpster Diving works against the stigma of poverty. He spends the majority of the article talking about properly eating from a dumpster. He knows that chances are, you've never heard or even thought about this. He uses elevated diction and higher level thinking to explain his rules of dumpster diving. For example, on the topic of chocolate in dumpsters, he states, "Chocolate is often discarded only because it has become discolored as the cocoa butter de-emulsified," (Eighner 715). I had to look up what de-emulsified meant and I have probably never even heard the word. He slowly breaks down the stigma, piece by piece, by offering insight on what thinking actually goes into looking through trash. I, myself, thought that going through trash is just something disrespectful people do thoughtlessly and desperately. But, after reading the article, he now showed me that it is actually much more than that, even though he admits it is dangerous and still unfavorable.
