Learning From Junk
Who knew a person could learn so much from junk? Wallace Stegner's "The Town Dump" and Lars Eighner's "On Dumpster Diving" are two good examples of lessons learned from garbage. They both focus on junk, but they are very different stories and teach different lessons.
"The Town Dump" is a written account of Wallace Stegner's fond childhood memories visiting the dump near his hometown. He shows through his essay that he learned a lot from the dump. He and his friends considered the dump as an "archaeological site" or history museum of the town. It held objects that could tell the children a lot about the owners, the people who lived in the town, and even about their own lives. He found that he could learn so much just by sifting through the junk. Stegner stated, "For a community may be as well judged by what it throws away, what is has to throw away, and what it chooses to, as by any other evidence."
"On Dumpster Diving" also has lessons to be shared. Eighner's......

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