Delaney: Hi Kyra! Howe are you doing? I have been very busy and stressed in the last 2 days. I wanted to film how our environment changes parallel to the increase in the number of Hispanics. I have got shocked because of the situation in our forests.They have messed up everything around. I cannot bear it anymore. I am getting sick. I think, I need a psychological support.
Kyra: Hi darling! I understand you very well and agree with you totally. Nevertheless, we should not let this make our life an horror. We have a happy family, which is adored by others. We have to concentrate more on our own relationship. I would suggest that we take free time and go on a vacation in Turkey, Antalya. I have heard that the city has a very good climate, sun and sea. That is what we need in these days. I love you.
Letter to the editor
Dear Mr. Boyle,
I am writing this letter regarding your novel Tortilla Curtain. Firstly, I would like to tell you that I find your book very creative and artistically at a very high level. Secondly, it is a very actual and discussed issue not only in the U.S. but also around the whole world when it comes to integration and its associated problems. The controversial topic is packed into a very exciting and interesting history so that the reader get a very clear overview of the topic.
I have liked your story not only because of the reason that the topic of integration is very actual and important but also because of the emotional relationship of Candido and America. Their daily struggle to survive is described very well in your book. I think that illegal Hispanics still have survival problems. Your book should also appeal to the authorities of a country that they have to take care of the immigrants and not just let them or better to say force them to live in nature. I find it very realistically written concerning Kyra and Delaney, they are a very good example for the local people. They think immigrated people are of second class and not a full member of the society. This shows that racism is another important theme in the novel and is displayed by quite a few persons including Delaney Mossbache. Another point that I find very interesting is that the lives of Kyra and Delaney are targeted life of Candido and America.
As a result, I would like to conclude that your book expresses very important topics i.e., racism, prejudice, and stereotypes in a society. We see the hopes of people and their disappointments very clearly. I would recommend your book to everyone because of the good story, and the understandable formulations of the fellings.
Sincerely yours,
Tortilla Curtain King
msn chat between Cándido and América
Cándido (C): Hello darling!
América (A): Hi sweety!
C: How are you doing?
A: I am doing fine. How are you?
C: I am also OK. I have been trying to work at a proper place but I have still pain due to the traffic accident I had with that guy. What was his name?
A: Delaney or something like that.
C: Yes, that is true. He offered me 20 Dollars and I accepted that. Neither he nor me wanted police to enter that manner.
A: I understand you. I would also have done the same. What concerns me is the point that you have so much pain and you cannot work regularly. What do you think? Would it not be better if we go back to our own country?
C: Sometimes, I also think like you. However, we made such an effort to come to the US. Would it not be a pity if we give up everything for which we have fought for?
A: I do not know. I merely want to live happily with you. After seeing so many problems here I do not want to stay here anymore. I scare that the same things will happen again. I have been dreaming of only very bad happenings since that day.
C: My precious! Please do not give up your hopes. I will be always there for you and our daughter.
A: I know. That gives me courage.
C: I love you.
A: I love you, too.
Book review: The Tortilla Curtaion
The novel “The Tortilla Curtain” is written about immigration from Mexico to the USA that is illegal and deals also with racism, which is the reason and for many social problems. We see basically two stories in the novel, or better to formulate, stories of two families whose ways coincide. The first family consists of Delaney, who is a journalist for a nature magazine living together with his second wife Kyra. She is a very successful real estate salesman. They have a son named Jordan, who is six years old. They have a house in Arroyo Blanco very near to nature, however in neighborhood close to Los Angeles so that they exploit the advantages of both parts.
The father of the other family is Cándido Rincón. He has a wife named América. She is seventeen years old and pregnant. América and Candido Rincón wanted a better life and to achieve this goal they crossed the border to the US. They planned to try their luck there. However, they forgot that poverty existed nor only in Mexico but also in the US. The only difference was its level. They did not even think that it could be worse for them. They only dreamt about a better and more comfortable life. There were many disadvantages, which were fully ignored by them. They did not consider that the US were a society, where a person as an individual may not improve his or her wealth. The reason for this was the fact that the social mobility was more important in the US.
After their move to the US, the fates of Cándido and Delaney were coincided. Because of the car crash, in which Cándido was hit by Delaney, Cándido was not able to work properly any more. The life of family Rincón became more difficult and they had to survive every day. It was a fight for survival. At the beginning, Delaney was a humanist who was open to every mind and race. He had a very big love to nature. In the novel, we see that the nature was damaged by the Mexicans. This caused that Delaney started hating Mexicans.
At the end of the novel, a big fire comes out in the forest, which was caused by Cándido. Delaney with a gun in his hand but without aiming to kill him followed Cándido up to their home. At that moment a landslide occurred. Kyra’s new born daughter, Socorro, died. Cándido and América saved themselves, and at the end Cándido helped Delaney rescue.
I have liked the novel. The ethnic problems in an unknown country and difficulties for immigrants are described in a very clear manner. These problems can occur, or better to say, have occurred already in Germany. I can observe many similarities.
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