73 pages • 2 hours read
Andy MulliganTrash
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Essay Topics
Trash is told from multiple perspectives. Would it have worked as well with a single narrator? Why or why not?
Why do you think Mulligan chooses an unnamed country as the setting for the novel?
Why does Rat abandon his nickname and begin to go by Jun-Jun again as the novel concludes?
What role does family play in the story?
What purpose does Gabriel Olondriz serve in Trash?
Olivia views Behala as an outsider. Do you feel that you would have reacted to the charity work as she did? Would you have shared her horror of the prison conditions? Discuss.
Raphael says that he knows the dead always come back. Why do you think he has this perspective?
Which character did you most identify with? Discuss your reasons.
Why do you believe that Raphael does not tell the interrogators that he found the bag? He believes that it was the strength of José Angelico. What was your reaction?
Do you agree with the student newspaper article that claims that multiple revolutions are what the country needs? Why or why not?
