Trash By Andy Mlligan Chapter Summaries

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“The wall divides the rich quarter, where the dead get buried in the earth, from the poor quarter, where the dead get stacked up in boxes.” (Pg. 180)

To be rich you have to have a lot of money and possession, when you are poor you have little money, possession. The rich have a nice happy ending getting buried in the ground on the other hand the poor have to be stacked up in boxes in the air. Andy Mulligan shows the corruption when the police treat the rich better than the poor. Andy Mulligan also shows divide at the cemetery when the rich and poor bodies are separated, divide is also shown at the police station when the police question Raphael about his education.

In trash there is a lot of corruption among the police, the poor and the rich. The police show a lot of corruption when the poor have different rights than the rich. “They ask that we honour Pascal’s memory - which is a pleasure as well as a duty. He was shot to death for his pains, so we honour him several times a day, just by being quiet on the steps.” (Pg. 49) In this case corruption is well-known for people doing great things. Pascal handed over his life in the confrontation facing corruption. The police have given different rights to the poor because they are not important and richest people do not want anything to do with them. …show more content…

“Who taught trash like you to read?” (Police, Pg. 62) In this case, Raphael did not have enough money to pay for education, the only people that got educated were the rich, and that is one of the dividing problems of poverty. A similar thing that was said was “He’s rich enough to send her to school.”(Pg. 25) At the dumpsite no one has enough money for education, but are eager and desperate for it because they want and better life for their children, family and themselves. The rich people think nothing of the poor and there education, all they think about is