Similar to the tropic of cancer, the theme of globalization can also heavily be seen in the magical depiction of traffic. Characters such as Manazar, who leaves his job as a surgeon to live amongst the homeless on a highway overpass and conduct the traffic of the chaotic city, seems to understand the city on a multi special level incorporating the past, present, large, and small parts of the city. Manzanar is conducting entire elements of space “and yet standing there he bore and raised each note, joined them, united families, created a community, a great society, and entire civilization of sound,” ( Yamishita, 35). Hence, Manzanar’s composition includes everything, including the pedestrians, the homeless, the cars, and oranges because they
