Empowerment

Climax

In the last part of the story, Andy Mulligan or the author of the book make the dumpsite boys which were Gardo, Raphael and Jun-Jun to tell the last part of the story together. Andy Mulligan wants the reader of the book to know what are the boys thinking and feeling. This makes the story more exciting to read because the story continuous faster when they all tell the story at the same time. I think that this is a very good technique to use to end a story.

Style

At the end of part 4, Andy Mulligan uses newspaper stories to reveal further information about Senator Zapanta and the mystery.There are about 4 newspapers that are telling a lot of informations to us about the Senator Zapanta and about the police  Some newspaper told us that the vice President is really bad  and mean. One of the newspaper called UNIVERSITY VOICE with the title “Enough is enough, say students.” In the newspaper it says that Behala could still move forward, but it won’t until they’ve said goodbye to bad, greedy old man called Senator Zapanta. The other newspaper named daily star thinks that the Senator Zapanta is a bad. The newspaper said that the Senator Zapanta is the one who spent a lifetime swearing he’s clean. In four of the newspaper, there were alot of bias things about the Senator Zapanta.

Multiple Perspective

In the book called Trash by Andy Mulligan. There are many chapters that are written by different characters in the book like Raphael, Gardo, Rat, Father Juillard and many more. One of the example is on Chapter one. The first chapter is written by the main character named Rapheal. There are many benefits of writing the story from different characters. One of the benefits is that they can show different perspective  of the characters so we know what the character feel. The other benefits is that they can show different perspective of the characters so we know what the character is thinking.

This is a story about........

This is a story about a group of three boys named Raphael, Gardo and Rat who are trying to solve a big mystery about a Vice President stealing money from AID. This story is also about poverty. Poverty means the people who doesn't have any food to eat, money to buy stuff and doesn't have any house to live in.In the beginning it says that two of three characters are trying very hard to stay alive in the dumpsite. One of their other friends is living alone in other part of the dumpsite. This story also about  how to be a good and a loyal friend.  In this story one example is when Raphael told Gardo to take the bible for them and Gardo  do it for them because he wanted his friends to be happy.

Family

In this story, the dump site people are like a whole family in the dump site  Gardo is one of the character that have no family at all. He thinks Raphael is his brother or cousin. The other character that doesn't have mom and dad is Raphael. The only person that he has is Gardo and his aunt  One example that shows that the dump site people are like a whole family is when the police took Raphael to the police station. Gardo and the other dump site people tried to safe Raphael from the police but they could not safe him  because the police are big and strong. So Gardo tried to chase the police car but he wasn't fast enough. I think that is what family means in this story . Family means to help other people that are not the same with you even though their not in your family.

Characters

Rat, Gardo and Raphael are the characters that are almost the same in the book Trash. The similar things about them are they are dump site site boys. The things that are not the same between three of them are Rat is a boy who likes to steal things from the school. Raphael is a boy who always lie to to the police to survive from them. But Gardo is a nice boy who is loyal to his friends and he is very brave. Gardo is not afraid of the police, and he is not afraid to go to the prison.