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    perfectly words the reaction to the life that Candido and America Rincon live. Illegal immigrants‚ Candido and America live a life of poverty and destitute in America . Their lack of luxuries and even bare necessities‚ bring to light their struggle to reach the American Dream. Living in a canyon not to far from the rich suburbs‚ the couple is forced to live like animals in order to survive‚ to find work‚ and to make a better life for their unborn child. Writer Delaney and his realtor wife Kyra Mossenbacher

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    have many diverse effects regarding to personal integrity‚ and within writing‚ copious amounts of literary devices can present various ways to show many relationships between what money can do to personal ethics. Between the pages of the novel Tortilla Curtain‚ written by T.C Boyle‚ figurative language and irony convey that when a person has an abundant amount of wealth‚ the more likely they tend to change their personal morals and ethics to fit what the society thinks is right. In the pages of the

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    Why do people really come to the United States for? Many say it’s for the American dream but what is the American dream in reality? Why do some people even risk their life’s to come to the United States in order to obtain the American dream? For many people the American dream is the only hope that they have for a better future but not just for themselves but for their family as well. The American dream for many is the idea of having better opportunities of prosperity and success in this country.

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    Innocent Bystander In the novel "The Tortilla Curtain"‚ by T.C Boyle‚ it tells a story about two completely different families; one family who is quite wealthy and the other who had illegally crossed the border and is barely making ends meet. In the story‚ a young lady by the name of America is taken to California by her husband‚ only to be victimized. Although she may not be the only victim in the book‚ she has been through a great ordeal of pain and suffering. America is a victim of

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    no money to see the doctor. Delaney stalks Cándido back to their shack. He carries a gun‚ but doesn’t intend to kill Cándido with it. Meanwhile‚ America tells Cándido about the night when she was raped‚ as she suspects that the baby’s blindness was caused by venereal disease transmitted by the rapist. Just as she is telling him this‚ Delaney finds their shack and is about to confront Cándido about the forest fire‚ when the shack is knocked over in a landslide. Cándido and América manage to save themselves

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    Eveline SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses. One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people’s children

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    and that decides how we act around those people and how we treat them. In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd‚ Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and The Tortilla Curtain

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    The American dream The term "American Dream" first was used by the American historian James Truslow Adams in his book "The Epic of America" published in 19311. At that time the United States were suffering under the Great Depression2. Adams used the term to describe the complex beliefs‚ religious promises and political and social expectations. The american dream has continually been a staple of american culture. once individuals speak of it‚ they usually refer back to the primary 1/2 the twentieth

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    Elizabeth Delaney Prominent Symbols In Hills Like White Elephants: White Elephants‚ The Bead Curtain‚ and Alcohol In most works of literature not everything is what it seems. An image‚ character‚ item‚ or act that has prominence in the story is called a symbol. Symbols go beyond their literal meaning and purpose. Some symbols universally represent similar things‚ but they can also be literary symbols‚ which are specific to the text.  In The Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway‚ a couple

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    begins to channel her resentment to Candido‚ her loving and innocent nature gives way to strong will and prideful trait which she exhibits in her way of communication; ‘What right did he have to tell her where she could go and what she could do‚ he could barely get up to pee on his own’ (America). Her rage towards his underachievement was evident as she believed her dreams was achievable because she sees the cars‚ the houses on daily basis so what was Candido excuse‚ she tried taking matters into

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