We all live out everyday life as comfortable as physically possible, but what would happen if you went back to the bare minimums of life. In Living Simply in a Dumpster by James Hamblin, the readers can see just what it is like to live out the minimalist lifestyle, Hamblin is writing this article about Dean Jeff Wilson, an environmentalist, ecologist, and college professor who quarries the thought of how living simply can truly effect a person’s life. Hamblin portrays just that through great use of syntax, the use of elongation, and the author’s use of rhetoric.