How To Be A Dumpster Diver Persuasive Essay
Adam Ekstedt
English 103
Prof. McNett
On Gleaning and Dumpster Diving There are two jobs that no children ever want to do when they grow up. Not one child tells their parents, I want to be a gleaner when I grow up,' or I want to be a dumpster diver.' Every child grows up thinking they are going to be a doctor or an astronaut when they get their parents age and they are going to be rich. Wouldn't there be something wrong with a kid who wanted to be something other than the best? As I have read more about dumpster diving and gleaning, I have began to wonder if it is really that bad. Why shouldn't a child want to grow up to be either the dumpster diver or the gleaner? When I was in grade school I remember arguing with my friends about who had the nicest bike or …show more content…
After seeing people scrounge through trash just to survive or go gleaning through the stuff that's not good enough for anyone else, I began to realize what is most important. It is definitely not any material possession that can be bought. It is something that I believe every person must find for themselves. Sometimes it is family or other relationships, and other times it's just any type of work a person finds gratifying. In any instance, it almost always involves being around and communicating with other people. One person in a movie about gleaning found that something that made him at least appear to be happy was teaching poor, mostly black people to learn how to read and write. He had a masters degree in biology and probably could have done much greater things and made a lot more money, but apparently he seemed to be happy living off food he gleaned and helping others who otherwise may not have received it. The dumpster diver also found out how little material things meant after coming into poverty. He saw people who collected things and found things like money that used to be so important to him, to not mean much of
English 103
Prof. McNett
On Gleaning and Dumpster Diving There are two jobs that no children ever want to do when they grow up. Not one child tells their parents, I want to be a gleaner when I grow up,' or I want to be a dumpster diver.' Every child grows up thinking they are going to be a doctor or an astronaut when they get their parents age and they are going to be rich. Wouldn't there be something wrong with a kid who wanted to be something other than the best? As I have read more about dumpster diving and gleaning, I have began to wonder if it is really that bad. Why shouldn't a child want to grow up to be either the dumpster diver or the gleaner? When I was in grade school I remember arguing with my friends about who had the nicest bike or …show more content…
After seeing people scrounge through trash just to survive or go gleaning through the stuff that's not good enough for anyone else, I began to realize what is most important. It is definitely not any material possession that can be bought. It is something that I believe every person must find for themselves. Sometimes it is family or other relationships, and other times it's just any type of work a person finds gratifying. In any instance, it almost always involves being around and communicating with other people. One person in a movie about gleaning found that something that made him at least appear to be happy was teaching poor, mostly black people to learn how to read and write. He had a masters degree in biology and probably could have done much greater things and made a lot more money, but apparently he seemed to be happy living off food he gleaned and helping others who otherwise may not have received it. The dumpster diver also found out how little material things meant after coming into poverty. He saw people who collected things and found things like money that used to be so important to him, to not mean much of