the ‘daily doses’ to survive from withdrawal. He further proports that ‘can scroungers’ blatantly ‘tear up the dumpsters’ and disregard perfectly good items for other homeless people. Eighner sees ‘can scroungers’ at the bottom of his elitist list because of the obtrusiveness to the practice of common scavengers. Furthermore, Eigher declares, “a true scavenger hates to see good stuff go to waste, and what he cannot use he leaves in good condition in plain sight.”Eighner as a homeless person uncovers his working within tradition of an archeologist. Similar to the archeologist, Eighner dubiously obtains information about those he scavenges from. Eighner feels that the refuge of the common consumer is more valuable then what people originally think. Eighner fervently states, “I avoid trying to draw conclusions about the people who dump in the Dumpsters I frequent,” when in fact he constantly juxtaposes his position to the affluent people. For instance, Eigher frequents affluent college dorms because of the extreme wastefulness the college student’s exhibit. He further passes judgment begrudgingly stating, “..it’s Daddy’s money.”(Eighner, 1993) Moreover, it is the use of these rhetorical strategies that the author implements to deliberately expose his superiority over college students because of his swiftness in retrieving private information. Eighner’s pretension even expands into academia where he finds; “college students often discard their papers. I am horrified to discover the kind of paper which now merits and A.” (Eighner, 1993)Eighner illustrates through the lifestyle of the impudent college student’s consumerism versus consumptionism by declaring, “some students approach defrosting a freezer by chucking out the whole lot” (Eighner, 1993). It is the authors belief that consumers are aware of th...
