Andy Mulligan's Trash

Andy Mulligan's ‘Trash’ deals with challenging issues, including children living in third world countries and poverty. Mulligan uses language techniques as well as rich characters and setting descriptions to help educate readers about poverty. Language techniques, such as sensory language and imagery language, and setting descriptions were used to make the reader feel the impact of these situations. Mulligan also uses rich characters in the novel to assist in informing the reader about poverty and issues in third world countries.

A driving force and reoccurring symbol and element in Nicolas Dickner's novel Nikolski is garbage; representing connected yet distinct meanings for each of the three main characters. For the unnamed narrator it represents putting old memories to rest and starting on his own path. To Joyce trash also catalyses a new beginning, however this is caused by the reinvention of things discarded much in the same way as she ways. Noah as well finds his identity buried beneath layers of waste, but he also finds stability and the concept of things permanent and complete, trash being a place of dissimilitude, functioning as a field of study and wonder. The element of garbage not only propels the plot forward, but ties the characters together in a tight

The assignment I chose to do was "Option 4: Creating a book code" and the steps I had to accomplish in order to finish are quite simple. First and foremost I had to complete the assigned reading,"Trash" By Andy Mulligan and I then used pages 231-232 as a starter for my book code. From there I had to fully comprehend the idea of a book code and come up with one since there can be many variations to a book code. I went with the one that was explained on page 231 where the first number represents the page you start on, second is the amount of lines down you need to go and the next number is how many characters (includes punctuation and spaces) you have to go in. The slash represents the turning of a new page. After that point, I came up with

In the Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Rey writes about her childhood growing up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1 in Baxley, Georgia, which is “As ugly as a place gets” (Rey 13). She depicts the relentless struggles while simultaneously living in Southern Georgia in her family’s junk yard. She is plagued by not only her father’s religious standards, but also her family’s mental disorder that runs through her father’s side, which has taken many including her father, in addition to her grandfather. She learned to be as tough as the southern pines in which Baxley was known for. Due to the fact that her family dealt in junk, hence the junkyard, they were also associated as junk.

I followed a story on Ellen one afternoon about a man named Rob Scheer, who was born into an abusive family and eventually put into foster care due to that high level of abuse. One of the most heartbreaking aspects of Scheer’s story was the fact that as he moved from home to home, he carried all of his belongings in a trash bag. Scheer and his husband, Reece, adopted four children from foster care, and each of his children also showed up with a trash bag full of their personal items. The Scheers decided to do their part to banish

The narrator of the story, who is the older brother, describes the projects as “rocks in the middle of a boiling sea” (Baldwin pg.147). This creates an apocalyptic image for the reader in which the rocks represent the projects and their life less, brutal nature and the boiling sea is all the misfortune, misery, and crime that goes on in the African American lives that call that place their home. The narrator in different words basically describes his childhood home as if it were hell on earth, and this hell on earth represent the start of all the suffering that both brothers have lived through. This symbol contributes to the theme of Suffering not only by representing the main characters’ suffering but also representing the suffering of the whole community living in the projects and all the suffering cause by segregation.

Dirt appears everywhere in the Grimes household; it “triumph[s] beneath the sink where roaches spaw[n],” and “crawl[s] out of the gray mop hung out of the windows to dry” (14). The dirt being present in one of the dirtiest and one of the cleanest places of a home highlights the family's inability to find a clean refuge. With dust and dirt covering everything, John can see how poor his family is, leading him to search for something greater in the ‘sinful’ parts of New York, which he knows he can never be a part of if he truly follows in his father's footsteps. Being covered in dirt and grime has obvious implications of poverty so when John cleans the rug, and the dust, “stick[s] to his sweaty skin,” the mark of poverty that befalls him is inescapable (19). By including that the Grimes have a direct link to slavery, Baldwin presents how the cycle of poverty can entrap families into harsh, laborious conditions for generations.

If it is remembered that ashes circa the turn of the century often referred to garbage, then it is possible to interpret the "valley of ashes" as a "dumping ground." (23) The ash heaps, then, are piles of garbage, and the repeated references to "waste land," as opposed to "wasteland," now make more sense, as does George Wilson's use of "a piece of waste" to wipe his hands. (24-5) For Fitzgerald, the American dream is to get rich and become socially acceptable; Wilson, who has failed, has "wasted" his life, and is now "down in the dumps." He has been cast away by society, just like the rest of the refuse that surrounds him. This, then, seems to be the fate of middle-class dreams--despite being conceived in a land filled with opportunity, they all end up in the landfill.

In the book, Trash by Andy Mulligan a group of teenage boys work on a dumpsite. They find something that changes their life and they have to work together to find out secrets and run from the cops to love a normal life. Education is mentioned in the book by Mulligan and by the boys, who explain that they can read, but some of the other children cant, which makes it hard for them. Countering the argument that ”Education is not important if you work on a dumpsite”

Throughout the chapters, one, two and three of the novel ‘Trash’, by Andy Mulligan, two main characters were introduced. These characters are both fourteen, dumpsite boys, the best of friends and may as well be brothers. Their names are, Raphael Fernández and Gardo. Raphael and Gardo live in the Behala dumpsite and they earn a living by collecting recyclables and selling them to the community.

The book Trash by Andy Mulligan, is about 3 boys who live on a dump site. The 3 boys are Raphael, Gardo, and Rat. These boys were going through trash and day when Raphel finds a wallet in the trash with money in it, the boys didn’t know what it was so they started going through the wallet and they found a man’s I.D. They didn’t know what the wallet was doing in there. They went into the sewer to their friend Rat, they wanted him to hold onto it but he wanted money out of it.

Andy Mulligan was brought up in South London. He worked as a theatre director for ten years before he traveled in Asia, encouraging himself to train as a teacher. He had taught English and drama in India, Brazil, Vietnam, the Philippines and the UK. He now lives in England, and is writing books all the time. He mainly writes for the ages 10-16 giving him a wide variety of books to write.His second novel, RETURN TO RIBBLESTROP, won the Guardian Children’s Fiction prize and TRASH was published in twenty-eight languages. It was made into a movie directed by Stephen Daldry and Christian Duurvoort.

The novel ‘Trash’, is a novel about three dumpsite boys, Raphael, Gardo and Rat, trying to hide from the police. At the beginning of the book, Raphael finds a bag containing money and the identity of José Angelico, which they later find out is dead. It turns out that José Angelico stole money off Senator Regis Zapanta and the police are looking for the bag to track him down. Meanwhile, Raphael, Gardo and Rat are trying to hide the bag from the police and at the same time find the money that José stole.

‘Trash’ is a book written by Andy mulligan. The book is about three boys working in a dumpsite trying to getc money for their family. The three boy’s names are rat Raphael and Gardo. They find a wallet in the trash full of money. And there was a key in the wallet. Rat know where that key go’s so rat takes them there. They open up the locker and fide a note in the locker. The note gives them close to find the money. On their journey there are police trying to kill them. The children’s parents say that education is not important. I agree that education is not important for them because you don’t need a education to topic up trash. Our hall class have read the book so we all know that education is not important because the kids

The focal point of the image is the garbage bags that are piled in a mountain-like structure. The placement of the bags in such a way is a clear reference to Walker’s third argument, where she disputes that “all [of our packaging] increases the mounds of waste products”. Furthermore, the placement also satires the idea that waste materials will “clog…our country”, as the natural environment becomes near-invisible due to the augmentation of unnecessary waste material. The background of the visual consists of many slightly faded plastic bags piled in similar structure to the one in the foreground, simply reiterating how the amount of “environment damage” caused by the increasing number of “plastic boxes…bags…and containers” will be “irreversible”. The image itself is monochromatic, with varying shades of grey. Dark hues are used to represent the mountain of plastic bags, ultimately denoting the structure in the foreground as the dystopia of “our” future. The sky is much lighter than the bags, and is grey in colour, symbolising the grim nature of the world “we” will create, if readers “do not do something positive about this now”. In its entirety, the visual aids in supporting Walker’s contention that readers must take a proactive approach to prevent the destruction of “our world”, and work to build a more sustainable environment “…for the sake of future