In Deborah Ellis’s novel, The Heaven Shop, it explores the divide between the rich and the poor. Even Though, In the Novel, Binti’s family is experiencing inequality among their own relatives, their is a divide between economic wealth, in Malawi. Firstly, it was normal for someone to pass away with AIDS in Malawi. When Gogo (Binti’s grandma) attended the funeral, she really didn’t show much love for her loved ones, because she said “that’s him, my son. This is the second son i’ve lost to Aids. I have also lost three daughters to this disease as well” (70.1). This shows the distribution of wealth and income in Malawi, because of the lack of treatment and care provided for the disease. Also, earlier when binti and Mr. Tsaka took Binti’s father
