What themes do Wall.e and Trash explore? During this term, we watched Wall.e and read the novel Trash. They both contained numerous themes, both visible and unseen. These themes help us understand the true meaning behind the story and how we can understand it better. Sometimes, the themes from Trash will relate to the ideas from Wall.e, and this will show the similarities between the two. In Trash,the idea of poverty and lack of money is mention all over the book, from the start to the end. This shows the author’s, Andy Mulligan, determination and purpose of the novel; to demonstrate and show the poverty in third-world countries, such as the Philippines, as mentioned in the book. The idea of poverty as probably repeatedly brought up in the book because the author wanted to display the poverty in the lives of Raphael. …show more content…
Poverty is also displayed in Wall.e, as the robot moves down the ruined, broken streets of Earth. Another theme that both stories show is government corruption. In Wall.e, the leaders of Earth have given up hope of returning back to Earth and leave Earth in a terrible mess; it was uninhabitable for animals and humans. The government does not equally share and distributing the amount of wealth throughout the people, as shown in Trash. Therefore, people like Raphael and Wall.e have to suffer in isolation and poverty, as their leaders take all the glory and money out of whatever they have. Second of all, another theme is the concept of sustainability, demonstrated in both Trash and Wall.e.
In Trash, Raphael and the other people who live in the slums and are basically left to die, have to survive with whatever they have. They have to scavenge of other people’s unwanted waste to try find something they can use or sell. In Wall.e, the robot , Wall.e, is left on the rotting world of Earth to clean up what the humans left behind. The humans did not take the responsibilities if pollution into their own hands, instead they pushed the responsibility over to robots. Wall.e has been collecting mountains of the trash and stacking them, but their is simply too much trash everywhere. Wall.e has been left by the humans to clean up an uncleanable mess. After years of cleaning the mess, Wall.e is soon the last robot on the Earth. He survives by salvaging off the trash the humans left here on Earth. The idea of sustainability is shown when Wall.e has to use what the people have left behind as unwanted objects. He finds more to the trash than anyone else. This is probably one of the main reasons why Wall.e survived, whilst the others did not. Sustainability has both a negative and positive effect on people, shown in both Trash and
Wall.e. Pollution has a very negative effect in both Wall.e and Trash. As the humans continue to consume more and more unnecessary food, immense amounts of waste is produced. This led to, in one case, the evacuation of everyone on the Earth, because of so much waste and trash. The world is getting overpopulated and thus there is more food needed to supply the world. Therefore more trash is produce. As our technology continue to grow and become more sophisticated, we consume more and more food. This will result in the certain amount of trash overload on Earth ensured by the growing number of people on Earth. In conclusion, the two stories are very different and similar as they both convey the same meaning, but express it very differently. Wall.e has more a post-apocalyptic sense, while Trash is more realistic in many ways. It shows us real events that are happening in the world now.
The major themes of the book are directly related to the themes which John Demos uses to tell this story. The storyline moves on though the evolution of one theme to the next. The function of these major sections is to allow the reader to relate to John Williams overall state of mind as the story unfold. By implementing these major themes into his work, John Demos make it possible for the reader to fully understand the story from beginning to end.
In Wall-E there is a robot designed to clean the inhospitable earth in order for the human societies to come back. In the waste land, trash fills the streets and oceans completely dry up. The land is so hostile that the all the other robots break down and Wall-E is the only robot left. During
In the novel Trash, by Andy Mulligan, the poor often manipulate others to get what they need. There are examples of this in the real world around us, and Andy Mulligan decided to use that in his novel. In Trash, children and adults that live in Behala are poor. Kids manage to get by picking plastic out of nasty landfills. Some of the children do not even get to eat, for they are too poor and dirty to be sold food. Because of this, they manipulate people in better situations than themselves to get money, clothes, etc. In this book, Rat manipulates Father Juilliard multiple times, Gardo takes advantage of Sister Olivia, and Jose Angelico betrays the Senator’s trust and deceives him.
Poverty is referred to as the inability to provide for basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. Walls (2005) stated that at times they would go days without eating and would keep their hunger to themselves, but always thought of ways to get their hands on some food. She further stated that “At lunchtime, when other kids unwrapped their sandwiches or brought their hot meals, Brian and I would get out a book and read. I told people that I had forgotten my lunch but no one believed me, so I started hiding in the bathroom stall during lunch hour. When other girls came in and threw away their lunch bags in the garbage pail, I’d retrieve them and return to the stall and polish off my tasty finds ” The major thesis addressed by the author, detailed the struggles she faced.
The themes that are seen throughout the work are very effective in
An idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art of literature can be referred to as a “Theme”. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and may be implied rather than stated explicitly. Theme is an important part of fictional stories. Several themes are presented in the novel to kill a mocking bird. One of the reoccurring themes in to kill a mockingbird is courage.
are many themes that at first don’t appear to be related but once given a closer look have
Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The story “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison displays a few specific themes through the story which are easy to depict. A few themes from this story are, first racism and finding his self identity, then the danger of fighting stereotype with stereotype, and last blindness. These themes play an important role in the story to better help the reader understand it.
9. Choose at least one theme that recurs throughout the story and two specific examples of this
One of the first themes that comes to mind when one reads this book is the
Gans wrote an essay on the uses of poverty (Gans, 1971). He came to the conclusion that our society needs the poor to function. Gans gave thirteen different reasons as to why we need the poor, and what their functions are. The first is that we need poverty to make sure that the “dirty work” gets done. By dirty work, he means jobs that are dangerous, underpaid, menial, temporary, undignified, and physically dirty. Both the Neumann family and the Stanley family had to take up jobs that fit in with Gans’ first point. They took up jobs that barely gave them any money and they were physically dirty, such as basement waterproofing by Claude Stanley. The second function is that the poor subsidize economic activities to benefit the affluent by working at low wages. It apparently makes life for their employers easier because they have to pay them less. The two families in the documentary were paid very low wages. They knew exactly how it felt. The third function is that the poor create jobs for the rest of society to serve or protect those in poverty. Welfare, food stamps, and homeless shelters are examples of services that help to protect the poor. Without the poor, those jobs would not be necessary. Both families could have used help from those services to get them through their rough patch of poverty. The fourth function is that the poor prolong the economic usefulness of items like day old bread and old fruit and vegetable. They buy the stuff that others do not want to buy. Secondhand clothes and deteriorating building are also included. The Stanley family went to thrift shops to buy their clothes. They couldn’t afford to buy the clothes from regular stores. The fifth function is that the poor are a deviant subculture that help uphold the legitimacy of societal norms. Gans says that the rest of the society can use the poor to be punished for being lazy, promiscuous, and dishonest. They are most likely to be caught for it. Some
A theme is a fundamental and often universal idea explored in a literary work. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are three main themes: the side-by-side existence of good and evil, the importance of moral education, and the presence of social inequality. These themes help the story be what it is and help to create a proper setting, plot, conflict, and characters. The themes in the book have good meaning and make the book what it is.
There are many themes that occur and can be interpreted differently throughout the novel. The three main themes that stand out most are healing, communication, and relationships.
For an abundance of authors, the driving force that aids them in creation of a novel is the theme or number of themes implemented throughout the novel. Often times the author doesn’t consciously identify the theme they’re trying to present. Usually a theme is a concept, principle or belief that is significant to an author. Not only does the theme create the backbone of the story, but it also guides the author by controlling the events that happen in a story, what emotions are dispersed, what are the actions of characters, and what emotions are presented within each environment to engage the readers in many
Novels like 'Trash' by Andy Mulligan can notify us about global issues like poverty and global injustice to a great degree. It gives us insight into the daily lives of different people living in developing countries. It also engages the reader, notifies us on social injustice and can create different emotions by putting you into the eyes of children living in a slum in Behala, a place based loosely on Manila, Philippines.