Eighner concludes paragraph 37 with a specific statement about the setbacks dumpster diving has as a way of life to address how it is mentally and physically demanding. Eighner throughout the essay educates the readers about scavenging practices but by making this statement it makes the reader realize what this essay is really about, a homeless man’s experience and way of life. He adds the statement to stress that although there is a positive side to dumpster diving it is also a difficult way of life to maintain, “No matter how careful I am I still get dysentery at least once a month” (Eighner 112). This provides the rhetorical appeal of pathos. Since the readers are able to follow Eighner through his practices of living on the streets, they
