Just Finished a Book

Normally I don't get to read much for pleasure during school as I'm reading papers, or avoiding reading papers. I just finished The Tortilla Curtain. I liked the book and after reading The Grapes of Wrath this summer I find many similarities.



The jest of the story is a "Yuppie" couple living within a soon to be gated community in Topanga Canyon get included in the lives of an illegal immigrant and his wife when the Naturalist Yuppie husband runs his car into the darting immigrant man one evening.

The book asks more questions than it answers, but does open the discussion on immigration, stereotypes and how immigrants influence our society. Some of the mindsets, thoughts and actions are clichéd, but the dialog they should start need to take place if our society is to move on successfully. These thoughts reminded me of the words and actions used against the migrants in The Grapes of Wrath, just a new race and time in history.

The horror and wrongfulness of these actions, words and thoughts are the same though.