Take a photo of a barcode or cover
arianekeona 's review for:
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle
alright let’s get into this SO THIS BOOK WAS A ROLLERCOASTER i keep surprising myself when i find books that i have to read for school actually enjoyable and i am still surprised here
this book covers a lot of serious topics and themes with illegal immigration, racism (specifically against hispanics), the american dream, anger and bigotry, nature and symbols within nature. there’s just so much to unpack so it definitely felt like reading a school book because of that, but also because of that ending BC WHAT i just kinda sat there for a couple minutes because to be honest i didn’t really know what happened but after time thinking about it i came to somewhat of a conclusion for the ending of this book and the whole message of it.
while i found myself sympathizing with cándido and américa basically thoughout the entire novel, and sometimes siding with delaney. i think this book was meant to give you an overall overview of the consequences of illegal immigration and a look into what it means for the two groups (the actual immigrants and then the people who are supposedly supposed to be affected by them coming here). cándido’s whole entire experience in the us has been bad luck quite literally until the very last page, yet despite all of that the book ends with him saving delaney. delaney’s character development goes in the opposite direction, he starts off as this liberal nature writer who seems set on his beliefs and has many instances where he questions his morals and realizes his racism. but as he gets more consumed into this white supremacist, capitalist, bigoted neighborhood he seems to fall into the same categories of the same men he called out in the beginning as he goes on an entire venture to threaten one mexican man. the book ends just as cándido reaches down to save delaney from this flash flood/mudslide that really topped off cándido’s entire bad luck trope and despite being really surprised and confused while reading that, i think it was the best way to end off this book.
it’s up to the reader’s interpretation to decide what should, or would happen after this. what would happen to cándido and américa as they just lost everything including their new born. what would delaney do with this new information about the mexican he saw as a threat. i mean throughout the entire book i was expecting delaney and kyra to have a change of heart and work towards not having a racist mindset but the complete opposite happens and i even predict that despite everything. sometimes there just isn’t a happy ending.
this book covers a lot of serious topics and themes with illegal immigration, racism (specifically against hispanics), the american dream, anger and bigotry, nature and symbols within nature. there’s just so much to unpack so it definitely felt like reading a school book because of that, but also because of that ending BC WHAT i just kinda sat there for a couple minutes because to be honest i didn’t really know what happened but after time thinking about it i came to somewhat of a conclusion for the ending of this book and the whole message of it.
while i found myself sympathizing with cándido and américa basically thoughout the entire novel, and sometimes siding with delaney. i think this book was meant to give you an overall overview of the consequences of illegal immigration and a look into what it means for the two groups (the actual immigrants and then the people who are supposedly supposed to be affected by them coming here). cándido’s whole entire experience in the us has been bad luck quite literally until the very last page, yet despite all of that the book ends with him saving delaney. delaney’s character development goes in the opposite direction, he starts off as this liberal nature writer who seems set on his beliefs and has many instances where he questions his morals and realizes his racism. but as he gets more consumed into this white supremacist, capitalist, bigoted neighborhood he seems to fall into the same categories of the same men he called out in the beginning as he goes on an entire venture to threaten one mexican man. the book ends just as cándido reaches down to save delaney from this flash flood/mudslide that really topped off cándido’s entire bad luck trope and despite being really surprised and confused while reading that, i think it was the best way to end off this book.
it’s up to the reader’s interpretation to decide what should, or would happen after this. what would happen to cándido and américa as they just lost everything including their new born. what would delaney do with this new information about the mexican he saw as a threat. i mean throughout the entire book i was expecting delaney and kyra to have a change of heart and work towards not having a racist mindset but the complete opposite happens and i even predict that despite everything. sometimes there just isn’t a happy ending.