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In La Rwanda Peru Searching For Beauty In Ugliness Summary

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La Rinconada, Peru, is a place of work, disappointment, and struggle. This town is the home to a gold mine that is now rarely visited - mostly by government officials and personnel from the mining company. This town, high in the Andes, is a place of little water, little food, and little hope. From this description, a reader would have no idea that this forsaken place could harbor any beauty. However, Marie Arana in the literary journalism piece, “In La Rinconada, Peru, Searching for Beauty in Ugliness,” finds that there can actually be beauty in places such as La Riconada. Her article explores the idea that there can be beauty in all things ugly. Arana supports her claim by providing factual information about the gold mine in La Rinconada, …show more content…

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