TRASH

Trash

What is trash?

Do we really know

old food, pieces of poo?

To other people it might not seem

just as people’s leftover boxes of old ice cream

It’s way way more...

It’s money and pesos

not rubbish and slime

Trash is how they stay alive

They dig through it day and night

Until three boys find something not usual to sight

It’s a bag...just a bag is what it seemed

Until the police came questioning

and making up schemes

Money is what they offered

They knew it wasn't true

So they ran with the bag

Into the blue

They slowly started putting the mystery together

with no education they were still very clever

With the dead at their sides

They dug up a grave

To find not a body

But money instead

They solved the mystery

But they still had to go

So Pia, Raphael, Gardo and Rat

Went to Sampalo

And that is that!

Trash Response Questions Two

1.)I think Olivia's perspective on money  is dead on. Money is what makes the world go round, and that's not necessarily a good thing. Money is the thing that separates everyone. Like the people in Behala. The people without money have to dig in the trash dump sites for a living. The analogy Olivia said was amazing. especially the part that said, " Nobody knows the value of water until they've lived in a dry dry place..." Behala would be a dry place because they don't have a lot of money. I think the experience of Behala has changed her in a very beneficial way. She has seen what it is like to live in a bad environment. She knows what it is like to struggle to stay alive. I think she will take all the things she has seen and put it to good use.

2.) Well...there are two articles that are really against Zapanta and that is the Daily Star and the University Voice. In the Daily Star it questions why there would be ten million dollars in his house. It states that everyone needs to-go money but ten million dollars is a little much. The Daily Star then says that maybe someone is either not paying his taxes or stealing other peoples. The University Voice says basically the same thing, it questions why he would keep millions of dollars in his house. Then the students say that the county could still move forward but with a new vice president, someone new and young. But the other article tried to defend him. The Star Extra talks about how Zapanta got stolen from and how it wasn’t his fault. It said that it was probably from someone that worked for him.

3. I think Andy Mulligan would end the book like that because it really tied everything together. It was the day of the dead so Orlandriz and Angelico could help them. And there was so many people there, they could just blend in with the crowd. There were two sides of the cemetery so it still separates rich and poor, even to the death.