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parallels that connect the lifestyles of the characters, but also contrast them. The author tends to switch back and forth between each chapter in order for us to understand the two main characters the Rincóns and the Mossbachers. The first part of the book called “Arroyo Blanco,” opens up with a descriptive but haunting event that occurs the afternoon as one of the main character’s name of Delaney Mossbacher is driving near the Topanga Canyon in California. Mr. Mossbacher, is a 32-year-old man who’s a pretty well off middle-class, white American who lives in the estate “Arroyo Blanco,” in Los Angeles, California. Delaney is super passionate about environmental agriculture who writes a column for a nature magazine company. One morning Delaney gets into a car accident while on his way to the recycling center to drop off some old bottles, and newspaper. Delaney, just happens to hit a man who’s crossing the road by the name Candido Rincón. Mr. Rincón is a 33-year-old an illegal Mexican immigrant, who currently residing on the bottom of a canyon on Topanga Creek. This accident somehow brings these two very different men together thru a set of events that has a reflective effect on both of their lives. Each male character is married with a family who are also introduced to us in the beginning of the first part of the book. Delaney Mossbacher is married to his second wife Kyra, who’s a relate agent for Mike Bender Reality Inc., with a six-year old son from a previous marriage…

“Riley, it’s time to wake up.” Topanga sing songed as she entered her daughter’s bedroom. A muffled response came from beneath the purple comforter. “You start school today; you should be excited.” Topanga said. “Not going” a more clear answer rang from under the covers. “Of course you are going” Topanga insisted and pulled the comforter off of Riley and the bed. “Get up, or I’ll send your father in here.” Topanga warned before she headed downstairs to go start breakfast. The thirteen year old…

instinctual animal. Cándido is then identified to be an illegal immigrant who lives among the bushes, like an animal, with his wife in Topanga Canyon, resulting of their view as wild animals living in hunger in the forest. After having imagined an illegal immigrant as animalistic, the image is reinforced when Delaney discovers that a coyote had taken his family’s dog, “a coyote had somehow managed to get into the enclosure and seize one of the dogs, and there it was, wild nature, up and over…

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Xenophobia is defined as an unreasonable terror of that which is perceived to be foreign. This phobia is found throughout many nations, and this unfortunate reality is described in Tom Coraghessan Boyle’s novel Tortilla Curtain. The story takes place in Los Angeles California in the city of Topanga Creek where its residents are struggling to adapt to a phase of social change as numerous immigrants invade this fragile society of white middle class Americans. The residents of Topanga Creek are…

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The “American Dream” by Angela M. Balcita and The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle are both pieces based on the idea of the “American Dream.” They may tell different stories although both share an amount of similarities in experiences. Both pieces have a dream, make adjustments to a new life, and have unfortunate circumstances. In the beginning of each piece, Boyle and Balcita express what they both dream of having in America. Balcita and her family, in the “American Dream," are eligible people…

While Delaney is walking towards his house a person approaches him with loud music to annoy Delaney and later realizes something bad could have happened to him and implies the gate would be a perfect idea. Delaney gives the horrible news to Kyra about Sacheverell the dog and how he put the foreleg in the freezer. Kyra's attitude ad appearance makes her believe she is not in good shape to be selling houses. Kyra is a type of person that has to have everything perfect in order for her to be in a…

to escape.”(39) Whereas Candido and America Rincon are an immigrant couple struggling to survive in a “camp in the ravine” (16), just below Arroyo Blanco in Topanga Creek. This story contains several underlying themes regarding immigration and xenophobia. Moreover, a prevalent motif within The Tortilla Curtain…

[Verse 1] Topanga is hot tonight, the city by the bay Has movie stars and liquor stores and soft decay The rumblin' from distant shores sends me to sleep But the facts of life can sometimes make it hard to dream [Pre-Chorus 1] Life rocked me like Mötley Grabbed me by the ribbons in my hair Life rocked me ultra-softly Like the heavy metal that you wear [Chorus 1] I'm flyin' to the moon again, dreamin' about heroin How it gave you everything and took your life away I put you on an aeroplane,…