Very Important: No outside sources or quotes or citations from the book
1,000 word essay.
The essay has to have a lot of textual evidence and it should be deeply analyzed. No direct quotes or citations. By textual evidence I mean talk about the characters and the book in general and analyze it.
The document I have attached includes key topics you should talk about.
Part IIâ€â€Essay Question #2 (
fifty
points
).
For
one
of the following questions, compose a literate essay with specific examples from the relevant texts to support your argument.
4. Borders, Walls, and the Divisions of Modern Society:
The Devil’s Highway
and
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
each seeks to expose the hidden injustices of the modern global economy. As part of their analyses, these texts examine how borders and walls become mechanisms of power and division. In a thesis-directed essay, analyze the following questions:
How have the characters in these books been impacted by the global economy and the spread of consumerism? What are the various barriers that they encounter in seeking to better their circumstances? How do these texts use physical boundaries (between North/South and overcity/undercity) to explain the divisions and inequalities within contemporary society?
Part IIâ€â€Essay Question #2 (fifty points). For one of the following questions, compose
a literate essay with specific examples from the relevant texts to support your argument.
4. Borders, Walls, and the Divisions of Modern Society: The Devil’s Highway and Behind the
Beautiful Forevers each seeks to expose the hidden injustices of the modern global economy. As
part of their analyses, these texts examine how borders and walls become mechanisms of power
and division. In a thesis-directed essay, analyze the following questions:
How have the characters in these books been impacted by the global economy and the
spread of consumerism? What are the various barriers that they encounter in seeking to
better their circumstances? How do these texts use physical boundaries (between
North/South and overcity/undercity) to explain the divisions and inequalities within
contemporary society?
Behind the Beautiful Forevers:
The physical border is the wall that separates Annawadi from Mumbai. Nonphysical border: Rich vs
poor.
The idea of the juxtaposition between the wealthy and the poor: We start off with Boo wanting to know
what it really is like to be poor in a place that’s prospering. We see in Mumbai all of this wealth and
opportunity being created but at the same time, we see dire poverty and so we see the juxtaposition
between wealth and poverty. This juxtaposition is maintained by the wall, and so in wealthier
communities, the way we deal with poverty and inequality is by building walls so we don’t have to see
the inequality or recognize the struggles of those living in poverty.
The aspect of corruption and how the characters in the book use it to get ahead as it’s the only way to
succeed.
The Devil’s Highway:
Physical border: The Mexican border. Also talk about the non-physical border in the book.
The notion of Borders.
In an attempt to militarize the borders, we kind of forget the humanity of these immigrants which brings
to another theme, which is the notion of borders and what they do and their impact.
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