Book Report On Trash By Andy Mulligan

Waste land is a very powerful documentary, where Vik Muniz takes us to a different world, but during the time he’s presenting this place one can relate with the humans living there. They live from others trash, some are ashamed of what they do, others are proud of what they do, but most of them if not all believe that is a dignifying job, their way of leaving.

The school district feels these students are unable to use the books because the teachers think the students will destroy them. This brings up one of many claims, which happens to be that education is falling the students. The school pays very little attention to these students, and this is one of the reasons why they drop out and don’t graduate. The students’ know that no one cares about their education so they don’t try to do well in school. If the system were to appreciate the kids, they would have a different view on learning how to gain education. Another claim would be, hardships at home are affecting the lifestyle of these students. Some of these students aren’t appreciated by their family members, and face horrible tragedies, which causes violence within each student.

Andy Mulligan's ‘Trash’ deals with challenging issues, including children living in third world countries and poverty. Mulligan uses language techniques as well as rich characters and setting descriptions to help educate readers about poverty. Language techniques, such as sensory language and imagery language, and setting descriptions were used to make the reader feel the impact of these situations. Mulligan also uses rich characters in the novel to assist in informing the reader about poverty and issues in third world countries.

In “Living Simply in a Dumpster,” senior editor from The Atlantic, James Hamblin created a profile that contained numerous bombshells and touched on an assortment of topics.

On Dumpster Diving 2a. Lars Eighner, the author of “On Dumpster Diving” describes his life of a homeless dumpster diver. He explains how it is a lot of work and certain principles to follow to be successful at the sport. One principle Eighner mentions in his personal memoir is knowing the right place and time to look for food and other things that would benefit the diver. “Students throw out canned goods and staples at the end of semesters and when they give up college at midterm” (Eighner 150).

Andy Mulligan’s “Trash” deals with challenging issues, including poverty and children living in third world countries. He uses setting descriptions and rich characters in this book to help the reader to understand poverty and third world countries as it helps the reader to understand the themes in the book. Poverty and third world countries are also presented to the reader as Mulligan uses different language techniques throughout the book like the description of the dumpsite. Sensory language and imagery are the techniques that Mulligan uses to cause the reader to almost physically feel some or all the five senses that Mulligan intends to share with his audience.

“Trash” is an amazing book written by author Andy Mulligan. Throughout this Novel it implies some powerful messages for the reader. Most people believe child labor was abolished years ago but the novel implies that children as young as three years old have to work in these poverty stricken places. One of the strongest points he implies is written on the front of the book “you never know what you might find”. The last but not least idea that this novel implies is that poor countries governments can but shouldn’t be allowed to get away with theft. All through “Trash the author Andy implies these very strong messages on the conditions in third world countries.

Homelessness is increasing every year and effecting Americans of different age, ethnicity and religion. In Lars Eighner “On Dumpster Diving” he explains what he went through while being homeless. He describes how and what foods someone should be looking for and to always be conscious of what one is eating because there is always a reason why something has been thrown out. He continues to go into detail about other items that can be found in the dumpster like sheets to sleep on and pieces of paper to write on. Things that can keep him busy through the day. Eighner carefully explains to his readers how being a dumpster diver has become a life style for the homeless and this is how they survive. It’s a way of living and they are comfortable

The author has also made intentional attempts to persuade the audience through the use of logical statements backed up by evidence. Eighner has started the essay by introducing how he viewed dumpsters as valuable objects. He then gives reasons why he is depending on dumpsters for his food. Being out of the workforce, he had no means of acquiring meals. He thus seeks refuge to the dump sites to get what he described as discarded and perfectly good food items. To support his position, Eighner informs his audience that this decision followed his inability to buy food as the little money he had was used to pay rent. He writes, “I put almost all my sporadic income into rent. The necessities of daily life I began to extract from Dumpsters” (Cite). Hence, he is able to convince the audience that his actions were as a result of saving money for rent.

Global issues are defined as problems relating to public welfare, that affect our world globally (across all nations). In Andy Mulligan’s novel, Trash, we follow the three boys of Behala dump site, (Raphael, Gardo and Rat) as they persevere against malicious forces such as the police, in order to bring justice to the mystery of Senator Zapanta and the millions of stolen international aid money. They accomplish this task by piecing together clues José Angelico left behind, leading them to the aid of other characters such as Gabriel Olondriz and Pia Dante Angelico, whilst defying the police and refusing to give in to their pitiless violence and cold threats. Throughout the novel, we see distinct themes involving global issues such as

Barbara Ehrenreich’s, “Serving in Florida” and Lars Eighner, “On Dumpster Diving” are both essays that share common similarities, but one similarity, in particular, is the overall focus on sharing the story of the homeless or poor American in American society today.

In his essay, "On Dumpster Diving", Lars Eighner speaks of his time spent as a homeless man. Eighner states in detail the steps needed in order to successfully become a scavenger of dumpsters based on his own experiences. Though the essay could appear to just be a useful manual there is an underlying message. Lars Eighner effectively uses argumentation, process analysis, and tone to demonstrate that society is wasteful.

Success is a word with multiple meanings, it’s different for everyone. In Lars Eighner’s personal narrative “On Dumpster Diving”, he details his success on dumpster diving, which for him is surviving. He utilized what he learned from scavenging to avoid being a wasteful consumer, and he paints society as wasteful. Eighner uses his personal experiences to explain certain causes and effects in his final conclusion. The structure of Eighner's narrative is used to appeal to guilt and can be seen throughout.

This marking period I read the book The Misfits By James Howe. In the MIsfits there were four main characters named Bobby Goodspeed, Skeezie Tookis, Joe Bunch, and Addie Carle. The story took place in Paintbrush Falls, NY. They had made up a group called “The Gang of 5” this gang didn’t really fit in with everybody and they always got made fun of for being fat, tall, skinny, ect. There were only four of them but they called themselves the gang of five because they thought that maybe somewhere in the world there was another kid just like all of them that needed to join their gang.

The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird gives the IB student a better understanding on international mindedness. This mostly focuses on poverty as that is the main issue being shown. This book shows not only poor health but, along with vulnerability to child labour and exploring the issue of homelessness.