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    Tortilla and Orange Soda When looking down into the valley from The Arroyo Blanco Estates‚ you will find an empty canyon or what looks to be an empty canyon. In the Arroyo Blanco Estates the Mossbacher family‚ Delaney‚ Kyra‚ and the step-son Jordan. The Mossbacher‚ is a well off family driving Japanese cars and having up scale products. Families do not normally look down upon the canyons below their houses and stop to think‚ maybe people live down there. The poverty level in Los Angeles is

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    April 15‚ 2008 The Compare and Contrast of Candido and Delaney Although Delaney Mossbacher and Candido Rincon‚ two major and opposing characters in T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain‚ both reside in Southern California’s Topanga Canyon‚ the worlds in which they live are from similar. Like opposite sides of the same coin‚ Delaney and Candido are living opposite lives on opposite sides of the same wall. Delaney‚ the liberal‚ environmentalist first meets Candido‚ the illegal‚ Mexican immigrant

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    The Significance of Tortilla Curtain Delaney and América have separate views on the walls and boundaries. They come from different classes and are on opposite sides of the wall‚ figuratively and literally. Delaney disagrees with the thought of a wall blocking access to his passion of nature. On other hand‚ having a baby changes América’s viewpoint more than it did before. Both of these characters have a strict opinion on what is best and they do not like to give in. Delaney writes articles on the

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    In The Tortilla Curtain by T.C Boyle‚ the author clearly illustrates the borders in the lives of the Mossbachers and the Rincons: as not only physical borders but mental. These borders separate each couple into their own worlds and show the idea of the American Dream can never truly be achieved. The Mossbachers are a middle-class‚ white family that lives in the Arroyo Blanco Estates. They have a nice house‚ two expensive cars‚ and can buy about whatever they please but they unsatisfied‚ still wanting

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    The “Other”; in The Tortilla Curtain Since its very beginnings‚ the United States of America has been idealized as ‘the land of the free‚’ full of new opportunities for people from all around the globe. In The Tortilla Curtain‚ written by T. Coraghessan Boyle the reader gets an up close view of the border between Americans and Mexican immigrants. Boyle uses satire to confront many trends in modern America today about immigration and separation of class. These problems are highlighted through

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    Tortilla Curtain: Jack Jardine Jack Jardine is a very interesting character in the story Tortilla Curtain. He has a very strong influence on Delany Mossbacher‚ one of the central characters in the story. His influences‚ along with the tragic string of events concerning Delany and Candido‚ produce a complete turn around in the ideals of Delany by the end of the story. At the start of the story Delany is a “liberal humanist”‚ albeit a hypocritical one‚ but by the end of the story Delany

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    Social Criticism: Looking at the book “The Tortilla Curtain“ in detail‚ it is very obvious that the author T.C. Boyle tries to imply the theme of social criticism. Therefore he uses the technique of shifting between either the American or the Mexican couple. Thus the lives of the two couples are continually juxtaposed and contrasted in a kind of a dual structure which highlights the fundamental differences and makes the contrast visible. Due to the story of the Mexican couple he makes us look

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    2/28/13 3A In The Tortilla Curtain‚ T.C. Boyle introduces two completely different families who live in southern California. Striving for their American dream‚ the Mossbacher’s and the Rincon’s struggle with similar difficulties everyday. But the presence of each other make them do things they would never have done before. They both go to the same grocery store‚ but they spend their money very different‚ and their American lifestyles contrast throughout the novel. The American dream is not limited

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    where they are. In T.C Boyle’s novel‚ The Tortilla Curtain‚ he reveals to the top and bottom of the social ladder by introducing two strangers‚ he gives detail of their lives‚ showing us that we all have one objective in mind; through his theme of survival he unearths how fear of the unfamiliar separates many people believing that certain groups are the enemy; but in reality we are all similar in searching for one thing: safety. In the Tortilla Curtain‚ whites point their rage and fear towards

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    Within various piece of american literature racial borders and their impact on decisions made by characters and other plot point are very influential and prominent. The novel The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle tells the story of two “families” of two different social classes and race and the troubles and problems they face. The white family higher in the class system face problems regarding the wellbeing of their dogs and other petty material things. While the family of illegal mexican immigrants

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