Trash by Andy Mulligan

Trash by Andy Mulligan

1. plot, character, setting and style

2. harrowing

   • plot
     • subject matter
     • specific scenes: prison/ police station/ dump
   • Setting
     • dump/prison/police station
   • Style
     • 1st person narrative. Adds realism
   • character
     • Rat (living with rats)
     • Pia. Abandoned and alone
     • Gabriel Olondriz. Imprisoned wrongly

3. exhilarating

   • plot
     • Tension/pace/mystery/happy ending/children taking on corruption/peril
   • character
     • clever, likeable, persistent, brave, honourable
   • setting
     • contrast between the dump and the island ending/ sense of freedom when they leave/ varied setting
   • Style
     • Hooks, clues/characters tell the reader that they are in danger/Reader also enjoys putting together the clues as the boys unravel them

4. humbling

   • plot
     • shows the reader extreme poverty
   • character
     • The characters are extremely honourable especially given their absolute poverty
   • setting
     • The setting is extremely grim, extremely poor and extremely dangerous.
   • style
     • First person narrative. Personality of the children is apparent, their modesty, their care for one another and their thoughtfulnes