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Essay Reflection
Introduction
On Dumpster Diving, Lars details the protocols and survival tips on scavenging. He shares his experience about being on the streets, giving the Dumpster Diving enriching wisdom about being on the streets. Lars touches on the various matters that affect the roads; Waste, the poor living conditions for the homeless, and the value of real stuff on the streets. The author enlightens his reader about the scavenger life and tries to reduce the stigma on the scavenger side. The author describes the emotional condition of a young dumpster diver about the beginning of noticing that waste has now become food; this is what he says, “Every grain of rice seems to be a maggot. Everything seems to stink. He can wipe the egg yolk off the found can, but he cannot the stigma of eating garbage out of his mind.”
Eighner expounds on the evaluability in the waste that people through at the Dumpster sites and how they are hoarded. On the other hand, Joan’s incredibly opens her notebook with confessions on why she and her other person in disguise now. She seems to ask herself so many questions on what she was doing at Delaware, as she caught a train or had she been left already. She openly gives a solution to keeping a notebook as she is exploring her thoughts. Didion’s voice, along with her personal touch, explains why she has kept the notebook. In White’s Once More to the Lake, he extensively describes a revisit to one of the childhood lakes. This is an epic journey that takes his memories to his younger days.
Challenges of the Reading
In “On Keeping a Notebook,” it is not crystal clear that Didion keeps a notebook for purposes of keeping factual recording and claims that would make a different impulse and an instinct that she didn’t intend. She agrees that she keeps her notebook so that she remembers fast and deceives herself on self-scores. The concept of keeping a notebook comes out clearly but to understand the intentions of the author needs critical thinking and keen, revealing the relevant grasps. This could help understanding other essays that have shallow intents. In Once More to the Lake, the challenge comes when White is at the shore of the lakes and wants to get the nostalgia he feels. He then realizes that there are hindrances like noise from the boats now on the Lake that weren’t there, and he depicts technology as disruptive where arguably his mind had switched to his boyhood. This perspective could help one a diversified opinion and reasoning.” On Dumpster Diving,” Lars is hitting on consumer spending habits claiming that they purchase even what they don’t need yet others are living on minimal. The challenging bit is that the more the consumer consumes, the more he dumps, and this could make it seem like there are larger second-hand commodities and more food to share. He further wallows in thought as some consumers have no extravagance to buy a new item to replace old things. From the introduction, we’d think he would support items coming to the scavengers.
Highlights
From Keeping a Notebook, we learn to accurately jot down one’s brief thoughts and recheck them across a short time and that it is to deceive oneself. The significance of keeping notes is excellent and making time to do your writing. Write wholeheartedly and write at least once a day and keep checking for the voice in your mind. From Dumpsite Diving, there is a lot of lesson on edible trash and scientific exploration. Bad spending habits of consumers and the feeling that dumpsites homeless go through emotionally, psychological and physical torments of the lost. Once more in the Lake, we learn of technology’s misdemeanors and how they can affect our nostalgic feelings and good old days. Furthermore, it shows that change is undeniable, whether you were prepared for it or not. It also highlights that we must be ready to embrace foreign technology, which will substitute our old means.
Questions
To E.B. White, I would ask his genuine opinion on the waterish revolution and how he thinks it has affected the modern child on the shores?
To Joan Didion, how long does it take to realize what one impulse led them to write?
To Lars Eighner, why was, is his opinion on the consumer expenditure so harsh?
Personal Account
The texts are immensely informative and educative in the sense that they all leave you with a lesson that could be guidance in real life.
References
Didion, J. (1968). On keeping a notebook. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 131-141.
Eighner, L. (1991). On dumpster diving. The Threepenny Review, (47), 6-8.
White, E. B. (1941). Once more to the Lake. Published in Harper’s magazine.