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To what extent does 'Trash' and similar novels inform and educate us on global issues? Novels like 'Trash' by Andy Mulligan can notify us about global issues like poverty and global injustice to a great degree. It gives us insight into the daily lives of different people living in developing countries. It also engages the reader, notifies us on social injustice and can create different emotions by putting you into the eyes of children living in a slum in Behala, a place based loosely on Manila, Philippines. People of different worth and status have their perspective displayed so that every detail of a situation is covered. Even if these characters seem fictional they are actually based on real and living people that Andy Mulligan has encountered

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