In the novel ‘Trash’, written by Andy Mulligan is about three young boys called Raphael, Gardo and Rat (Jun-Jun) who live in a city called behala, they live in poverty, child labour and a corrupt city.An important setting in the story is Behala.This setting is important because it shows us about poverty,child labour and what its like to live in a corrupt world. Firstly, Behala is an important setting because it shows us corruption.Senator Zapanta stopped a nation in its tracks.”Senator Zapanta stopped a nation in its tracks. He stopped our country making progress”. - José Angelico.The author shows this through senator zapanta when he stole the $6 million from Behala community.I am very thankful that New Zealand does not live in a corrupt society. Secondly, Behala is a significant setting because it shows us child labour .’’I was a trash boy since I was old enough to move without help and pick up things.That was what-three years old , and i was sorting’’-Raphael.Raphael, Gardo and Rat all had to work in dumpsites at very young ages.New Zealand is lucky that we are not as effected by child labour as Behala is.Luckily …show more content…
I wear a pair of hacked-off jeans and a too-big T-shirt that I can roll up onto my head when the sun gets bad. I don’t wear shoes- one, because I don’t have any, and two, because you need to feel with your feet.”-Raphael.I don't know what it's like to live in poverty because where I live in Napier there is no poverty.We can learn from this that it is important to be thank for what you have got because one day you could be living in
Jo Goodwin Parker argues what it truly means to be within the poverty, social class in her text, “What is Poverty?”. She does not complain to receive empathy, but more so to draw attention of the poor’s living conditions. Poverty dehumanizes its victims, physically and emotionally. Parker’s aggressive tone is a rhetorical strategy intended to ignite a fire within the reader to not remain “silent” of poverty victims.
The Outsider characters Edward and Raphael from the movie ‘Edward Scissorhands’ and the novel ‘Trash’ change their bland and featureless environments by providing creativity and ambition to the locals. Edward is an Outsider by his appearance while Raphael is an Outsider by poverty. Their communities express kindness to them both. Both individual characters do not act in the way the inhabitants of the society or slum. This is positive for the community and the creativity of the Outsiders change their
When I first started reading the book “Trash” it grabbed my attention right away. ”Trash” is like a movie also, As you get into the pages your taken into deep and deeper thoughts. It really gets you thinking how everything will turn out. It also takes you into sights, sound and smells. Like the figurative language and the characters traits. As the main character Raphael introduce himself and weird way. When you pick up this book it might seem entertaining and catch a lot of people’s interest if you like crime and books about mysteries. Also, this book has no previous knowledge. So, Raphael and his friends live on a huge dump truck site. Which the city they live in is frictional which is called Latin America. Theirs lives are constantly
The story ‘ Trash’ by Andy Mulligan is an example of true friendship, corruption and poverty all tied into an inspiring novel for all. It shows how three boys with an immensely tight friendship can overcome poverty and corruption making a better world for all. This novel also makes me feel quite sad because this kind of scenario happens all around the world yet their isn’t much to stop it happening in some
Stephen Crane’s novella, “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” deals with many difficult concepts and situations. However, the most prevalent seems to be the people that find themselves caught in a vicious cycle of violence. Although some claim that a literary label cannot possibly contain Crane’s work, his ideas certainly have much in common with other naturalistic writers of his time. He portrays poor Irish immigrants, the dregs of humanity, struggling for survival during the Industrial Revolution. Even while relating terrible events, Crane remains detached in the typical naturalistic style, seeming to view the world as a broad social experiment. As the story opens, we are instantly drawn into a heart-wrenching arena where people behave like animals, tearing each other apart if it will help them to reach the zenith of the food chain. Yet in this cycle of violence, Crane definitively incriminates the environment over every other malevolent influence acting upon his victims; using a theme of violence, a tone lacking in emotion, rich imagery, and strong personification of the environment, Crane fashions a wild Darwinian view of society that leaves all of the blame resting on a person’s surroundings rather than his choices.
Filmed for nearly three years, Waste Land follows famed artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest landfill, Jardim Gramacho, situated on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eccentric band of catadores, otherwise known as garbage pickers. The catadores are a definitive marginalized populace; jobless in any conventional sense, they turn to picking profitable recyclable materials from the junk discarded by those in Brazil luckier than themselves. Depicted in the documentary is a culture unlike any other that I have ever seen. The people within this isolated culture live in the most horrifying conditions imaginable. They are isolated from society along with the essence of life itself; their homes and lives revolve around a place filled with garbage, trash, and discarded and unwanted items. Therefore, it is impossible to fathom how the people that dwell here don't feel as
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The novel ‘Trash’ by Andy Mulligan is a thought provoking text, set in Behala dump-site. This text offers a unique insight into an unusual world, where the citizens have to face extreme poverty, corruption and have to survive in some of the harshest conditions. The themes used in this text help to increase the responders understanding of a contrasting place to the one they live in. The three main protagonists Raphael, Gardo and Rat tell the story, showing the reader a place where the characters battle problems and challenges daily that we would never encounter. This forces the reader to re-examine their perspective of poverty and how they live. Mulligan achieves this through the techniques of setting and imagery.
The setting of Behala dumpsite highlights the issue of poverty. The descriptive language used to described the setting such a “All over the city, trash bags
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Michael North. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001. Print.
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The novel trash is based around a dumpster boy named Raphael. The author talks about the challenges these dumpster boys go through just to get a few pesos, even thou they spend most of the day in the dump they still don’t regret it because they think that this is the best for them. From the start the main character talks about finding something and after a short period of time he does. The think he finds leads him to a scavenger hunt. Each hint leads him to another and in the end he finally get through the mystery. While the boys were deep in the hunt they dident realize their poorness, the only thing they focused on was the end. The author shows many signs of how money isn’t everything. Life goes on even with out it. The Might Miss Malone isn’t much different then Trash. The main character named Deza Malone clearly shows the importance of money and how if they all story together then everything will be right. Through the novel the Malone family face a lot of problem but as soon as they start to think of the future then their entire problems vanish. The family can’t afford to get many things because Deza’s dad can’t find a job he can hang on to for a long period of time. Her dad not having a job shows the challe...
On the most superficial level, the verbal fragments in The Waste Land emphasize the fragmented condition of the world the poem describes. Partly because it was written in the aftermath of World War I, at a time when Europeans’ sense of security as well as the land itself was in shambles, the poem conveys a sense of disillusionment, confusion, and even despair. The poem’s disjointed structure expresses these emotions better than the rigidity and clarity of more orthodox writing. This is evinced by the following from the section "The Burial of the Dead":
Slow violence is a severe problem in the world today and this can be shown in the documentaries Plastic Cow, E-Wasteland and Chris Jordan’s photograph and film Midway: Message and the Gyre Project and the paper “Wasted Humans and Garbage Animals: Deadly Transcorporeality and Documentary Activism” by Chia-ju Chang. Especially living in the United States in the exceedingly developed city of New York it is hard to envision the kind of problems and hindrances, garbage, is affecting people living on the other side of the world and especially be responsible for that same problem. The paper and documentaries all emphasize the harms linked with acts of slow violence like toxins that get released into the environment, carelessness for waste workers and the effect on animals.
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land. Ed. Michael North. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001. Print.