The book Trash written by Andy Mulligan is an adventure novel involving three boys who live in a dumpsite. One of the characters is Rat and he does several things that helped to solve the mystery. This essay will look at how Rat’s qualities helped to find the money. Rat (Jun-Jun) is one of the dumpsite boys that live in a dark hole with rats his the only one of the boys that live on the dumpsite with not family “He was the only kid in Behala that I knew of who had no family at all…” but he is friends with two boys from the dumpsite named Raphael and Gardo so his not so alone as he seems. Rat is small but a smart boy and also thinks ahead just to be sure his friends and himself are safe from danger Rat is a very smart boy he usually thinks
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
Given that, city rats are the same breed as a pet or lab rat, they can grow to about 16 inches and weigh up to a pound, moreover, their colonies can grow to 40 to 50 rats, and they have the habit of to travel in packs. In addition, when they reproduce, they can mate 20 times in six hours and female rats can give birth to 40 to 70 rats a year. Therefore, they are extremely difficult to kill and New York City, containing an underground subway system, empty lots, apartment complexes and lots of garbage, is the perfect environment for a massive reproduction of these undesirable animals.
“Boy that’s all you are, that’s what all of you are. You are a piece of garbage” (P. 66). Trash by Andy Mulligan opens our eyes to the mistreatment of people with a lower status in society due to poverty. Multiple problems are occurring in third world countries all around the globe such as corruption, poverty, and mistreatment. These problems have been brought to light in the book by using a remarkable storyline with a clever use of various language techniques. The storyline of the book is intense and impactful, it tells us about three young boys who were sorting through trash and find something astonishing that would change their’s and many others lives forever.
Tom was an adventurous boy who loved to go to many scary places, such as the grave and the haunted house. He loves to go treasure hunting with his friend Huckleberry Finn. At the beginning of the story, Tom is a mischievous boy, who did not listen to his Aunt. Tom is also very brave and courageous to go up into the court and says that Muff Potter is innocent and Injun Joe is the murderer. Even though he is a kid, he was becoming a better person. The main character in Trash is Raphael. Raphael is a 14 year old with a lot of strength and courage from the police. He was a little naughty to be hiding the bag from the police. Otherwise, he is brave and very smart. Even though he is poor, he can escape from the police very
3. There are many patterns in the book. One of the patterns I spotted was that he goes to knock on the door to collected weekly fees and at first he is always scared. But every time he talks to a neighbor they all give him warm welcomes and shows that they can understand and care for him. Another pattern I spotted was always he messes up in every house. He messed by saying a bad word to the neighbor, messes up by leaving a question and standing there for a minute, and he messed up by lying to Mrs.Rat.
Even though some people believe universities will lose money if they insure all athletes with medical insurance. I believe the NCAA should give health insurance to athletes because families can only pay a certain amount of the bill, the athletes that go to the school bring in millions of dollars, and the NCAA covers bills up to $90,000 but don't exceed it. Colleges should be responsible for the athletes that commit to playing a sport in college with the possibility of getting an injury and not being able to fully recover and get back to a normal lifestyle.
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.
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.
Rats are dangerous because it carries fleas and ticks with them to your residence. The rats could come from sewers or trashcans and carry those particles and germs to your clean home. The ticks and fleas carry additional diseases to the diseases rats carry. Along with small rodents nestled in a rat's fur, rats destroy a home through scratching and gnarling walls, wires, plumbing, and insulation with their teeth and feet. Pet food and human food become unsanitary due to contamination.
One of Raphael’s friends Jun-Jun (Rat) is another dumpsite boy and he hasn’t had a new pair of clothes for years and he is not educated why? Because he is the same person as Raphael both dumpsite boys both have no money to get educated. Children at a young age is working under age to make money to help their families.
Rats are monstrous, revolting ,creatures that spread disease to humans and kill small animals. Recently, multiple countries have been overwhelmed by rat infestations. Additionally, rats have caused many problems throughout history, especially The Black Death. The dramatic changes in the rat population are, in some areas, beginning to concern many residents and officials. As rats and other rodents intrude into human occupations, they cause executives to do everything in their power to wipe out the increasing population of the rats in residences and in metropolitan areas.
Rats are horrendous rodents that infest even some of the cleanest of homes. Rat infestations have been occurring in many areas of the world. The rodents are multiplying and taking over entire regions. These rats are leaving house residents concerned with no way to stop them. Infestations are overwhelming humans, taking over their homes, because they are driven out of large cities limits due to weather.
Recently, Paris ushered in a group of uninvited “guests”—clustered rats. Some people have already met with them. For instance, “Nadine Mahe des Portes” (para.1) stepped on one rat on the way home. And, as result of rats, Parisians may have the possibility of tripped over them on the sidewalk. Differing from before, rats “brazenly feed in broad daylight” (para.3). They were “all over the park”, “sauntering across the footpaths”, “merrily grazing in the undergrowth” and far more bothered by “pigeons competing with them for breadcrumbs” (para.5), which are used to feed pigeons by tourists and local people. Rats “foraging for food” regularly scampered through the “children's play area” and trash bins, “sowing panic” (para.8). People often use a
Rats are intelligent. Do you ever wonder how rats get access to your home even if you’ve virtually sealed everything? Yes, that’s right.
Once upon a time there lived a lanky little rat named Rudy. Rudy’s fur was very dull and felt like needles. She lived in a tiny village where all the animals knew each other. Every afternoon she would meet with her friends at the riverbank to tell stories of their morning. One day Rudy scurried to the riverbank excited to share with her friends a cheesecake she had baked just for them, but when she arrived at the meeting spot, no one was there. Worried and confused, Rudy hurried in to town to look for her friends there. Just as she reached the main road, her body froze as she watched the most beautiful creature strolling through town. Rudy looked around and noticed she was not the only animal in the village mesmerized by this beautiful