You don't need money to live a happy Life.

In both Andy Mulligan’s Trash and Christopher Paul Curtis’s The Might Miss Malone, the authors show the significance of family & friends and how important they are instead of money to live a happy life. Both novels take characters that show how even without money there life goes on. The authors of both novels clearly present the challenges these characters go through to get money but are still happy without it. By doing this the reader can see how money isn’t everything in life, you struggle but there is not need to stop.

The novel trash is based around a dumpster boy named Raphael. The author talks about the challenges these dumpster boys go through just to get a few pesos, even thou they spend most of the day in the dump they still don’t regret it because they think that this is the best for them. From the start the main character talks about finding something and after a short period of time he does. The think he finds leads him to a scavenger hunt. Each hint leads him to another and in the end he finally get through the mystery. While the boys were deep in the hunt they dident realize their poorness, the only thing they focused on was the end. The author shows many signs of how money isn’t everything. Life goes on even with out it. The Might Miss Malone isn’t much different then Trash. The main character named Deza Malone clearly shows the importance of money and how if they all story together then everything will be right. Through the novel the Malone family face a lot of problem but as soon as they start to think of the future then their entire problems vanish. The family can’t afford to get many things because Deza’s dad can’t find a job he can hang on to for a long period of time. Her dad not having a job shows the challe...

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...e man in the jail. He goes there to help the man get what was his. Even thou he could keep it a secret and just go after the money he still choses the right path. Both novels show that money isn’t everything, doing the right thing is more important. Both authors try to show a similar point on how life goes on without money; you just have to make it work. Another similar point can be found between these two novels. In Trash the boys think about the friends that worked with them for their entire life. In The Mighty Miss Malone jimmy thinks about his family that why he sends money to his family even when his life gets better. In both novels the characters could keep all the money, but choose to help their family and friends. This proved my thesis because family and friends stick out to be more important then money. You just have to keep you head up and do what you can.