Boundaries are a common symbol in “The Tortilla Curtain”. Walls, Fences and gates are used to separate immigrants and animals from the citizens of Arroyo Blanco in order for the whites to be protected from the “Others”. This shows how the fears they had towards racisms/Prejudice.
In The Tortilla Curtain by T.C Boyle living the American dream was the goal of candido and America when they cross the border to search for a better life in American but they come into failure because of racism and people wanting separate from illegal immigrants. The stereotypes of many Mexican because people saw them as thefts to United States because they would come here looking a better life and to find a job and which people didn’t like because they would take jobs …show more content…
Walls, Fences and gates are used to separate immigrants and animals from the citizens of Arroyo Blanco in order for the whites to be protected from the “Others”. This shows how the fears they had towards racisms/Prejudice. They used walls as a way to keep immigrants out of there community and to keep animals out. The wall was also a separated from the poor and rich, they rich didn’t want the poor in the community. Immigrant come to America to have a better life and be more success but many immigrant come to failure because they are stereotype and many Americans are against immigrant and want to put a stop to it. The president of the united states Donald Trump wants to put a stop to immigrant because he think they just feed off welfare checks. The rich vs the poor was another issue The Tortilla Curtain because the rich wanted to have wall they separated the rich from the poor. The community of Arroyo Blanco was all against poor immigrant and didn’t want them in their community, they didn’t trust them or anything. All of these issue are the struggles the immigrant go against in the book and in the world today. They lived a hard life and we don’t even try
In The Tortilla Curtain by T.C Boyle living the American dream was the goal of candido and America when they cross the border to search for a better life in American but they come into failure because of racism and people wanting separate from illegal immigrants. The stereotypes of many Mexican because people saw them as thefts to United States because they would come here looking a better life and to find a job and which people didn’t like because they would take jobs …show more content…
Walls, Fences and gates are used to separate immigrants and animals from the citizens of Arroyo Blanco in order for the whites to be protected from the “Others”. This shows how the fears they had towards racisms/Prejudice. They used walls as a way to keep immigrants out of there community and to keep animals out. The wall was also a separated from the poor and rich, they rich didn’t want the poor in the community. Immigrant come to America to have a better life and be more success but many immigrant come to failure because they are stereotype and many Americans are against immigrant and want to put a stop to it. The president of the united states Donald Trump wants to put a stop to immigrant because he think they just feed off welfare checks. The rich vs the poor was another issue The Tortilla Curtain because the rich wanted to have wall they separated the rich from the poor. The community of Arroyo Blanco was all against poor immigrant and didn’t want them in their community, they didn’t trust them or anything. All of these issue are the struggles the immigrant go against in the book and in the world today. They lived a hard life and we don’t even try