The common misperception about homeless people is they are all criminals or drug abusers. In the movie The Gleaners and I, and the article On Dumpster Diving there are individuals that break this stereotype, and try to better themselves by using these activities to find what food they can. The individuals mentioned in the movie The Gleaners and I include people that have lost their job and those that were raised gleaning. In the article On Dumpster Diving Lars Eighner did have a job and started "diving" a year before he became homeless.
A woman named Agnus Varda made a movie about one of the ways it is possible for the lower class European family to survive. These families must look for gleaning spots left over from the harvest. Gleaning is when you go the fields or patches to collect the either thrown out or what's left on the ground when the workers finish gathering the crops. The owners of these areas let the gleaners do their job after they complete the collection process.......

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Title: Gleaners And Divers
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1. Gleaners And Divers
   

   Gleaners and Divers. The common misperception about homeless people is they
   are all criminals or drug abusers. In the movie The Gleaners ... ...