This story is about…”: Using the phrase, “This is a story about…” Supply five words or phrases to describe Trash. Explain your choices.

This story is about life in poverty, it shows how rough the people in poverty’s lives are and how strong they must be to endure how they are treated; without respect. This story is also about friendship, the story has included three boys, two of them have been friends for a while, loyal friends with each other but at a point in the story, they build another friendship bond with Rat or Jun-Jun. This friendship just started out by having Raphael and Gardo needing a favour from Rat but they’ve become real close after all they’ve been through; their connection with each other tightened along the way, they started caring for each other. Trash is about justice, many freedom fighters and people who want to expose injustice have shown up throughout the book, our three main characters for example have been trying to expose Senator Zapanta and the corrupt police to avenge Jose Angelico, Gabriel Olondriz and Pascal Aguila. Jose Angelico and Pascal Aguila are also great examples of freedom fighters. Trash is about showing that not everyone has a peaceful world; the book shows this town with corrupt policemen and a Senator that takes away the government’s money and smuggling it for his own purposes. Lastly, the book Trash is also about corruption, they show how corrupt police can be, doing anything for money and having it their way, making their job easier. They try to bribe people to do their dirty work, always not keeping their end of the bargain. They even beat up children such as Raphael for information they need.