Trash Andy Mulligan Analysis

Education is not helpful when you work at a dumpsite Essay

The author Andy Mulligan has introduced readers to the world of “Trash” about group of teenage boys Raphael, Gardo and Rat that all work at a dumpsite, the friends find a bag filled with money and an ID card of a man called Jose Angelico and they end up getting in a lot of trouble. The place where these kids live in is a fabricated yet close to reality place called “Behala” this is a place where the homeless and the poor must live and dig through trash everyday just to get by and to be able to find at least some source of food for them and their family. Now “Trash” has raised a question among readers “Education is not helpful when you work at a dumpsite” because throughout the book it is mentioned that the kids have the chance to get an education and there are many reasons why it is not important for the kids to get their education and that they wouldn’t benefit from it. It’s not that kids shouldn’t have or have the opportunity to have an education it’s the fact that the kids work …show more content…
Think of the skills that these children may need, like when going through trash and finding food or some item that they can either sell or keep for them and their family would not be anything that they would be taught at school. The classes that are taught at school like English and maths would not be a great help in the factor of helping them find food. the only way that English would be a useful subject is that maybe they could use reading to their advantage by being able to read labels to tell if what they were getting was good, but that would mean that everything would most things would need to have a label to be an advantage which is not always the case especially when it comes to digging through trash. Most of the skills that you would need would be simple skills that just by day to day life you go throughout getting these skills by interacting with one