A Study Guide: Trash

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The story of the novel is set in an undisclosed country that is going through development. This thrilling story revolves around three boys who, by chance, happen to find a bag in the garbage. Actually, that bag is linked to a murder and millions of dollars that had been stolen..............
A Study Guide: Trash
Copyright
To the Reader
Introduction
Brief Summary
Characters
Literary Elements
Complete Summary
Summary (Part One)
Analysis (Part One)
Summary (Part Two)
Analysis (Part Two)
Summary (Part Three)
Analysis (Part Three)
Summary (Part Four)
Analysis (Part Four)
Summary (Part Five)
Analysis (Part Five)
Themes
Symbols

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: May 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005165192

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Summary and Analysis of Trash

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Content

Summary and Analysis of Trash

Copyright

Content

To the Reader

Introduction

Brief Summary

Characters

Literary Elements

Complete Summary

Summary (Part One)

Analysis (Part One)

Summary (Part Two)

Analysis (Part Two)

Summary (Part Three)

Analysis (Part Three)

Summary (Part Four)

Analysis (Part Four)

Summary (Part Five)

Analysis (Part Five)

Themes

Symbols

To the Reader

If you want to read the novel Trash, then this book is not for you. This is for those students who want to prepare for their exams and want a summary and analysis of the novel. Well. Students can pass the exam just by reading this book, but they don’t have that pleasure which they can get by reading the original novel.

This is not the original novel written by the author. This is just a guide book, which can be of great help to the students.

Introduction

Trash, written by Andy Mulligan, was first published in 2010. This young adult novel is a classic thriller that became extremely popular right after its publication.

The story of the novel is set in an undisclosed country that is going through development. This thrilling story revolves around three boys who, by chance, happen to find a bag in the garbage. Actually, that bag is linked to a murder and millions of dollars that had been stolen.

The police force and government officials in that developing country are corrupt. They start a manhunt for the three boys, but the boys happen to be too smart for them. The boys eventually solve the mystery by themselves and consequently distribute the stolen money among the poor people. The money in that corrupt system rightfully belongs to the poor.

There are several different first-person narrators. Raphael is the first narrator who begins the opening part of the novel.

It is Raphael who finds a bag in the garbage. There is a wallet in that bag that contains eleven thousand pesos (the monetary unit of several countries in the Americas and the Philippines), pictures of a girl, a map, a key, and the identity card of a houseboy named Jose Angelico. This boy, Jose, was killed by the police while they were interrogating him.

Raphael has a friend named Gardo. When the police reach that garbage site to look for that bag and the things it contains, Raphael and Gardo keep the wallet to themselves.

There is another younger boy named Rat. He helps Raphael and Gardo to learn that the key found in the bag is for a locker at the train station.

When they open the locker, they find a letter inside. The letter is written to a man named Gabriel Olondriz. This man is in jail serving a life sentence. He had tried to reveal and prove the corruption committed by Senator Zapanta. The Senator retaliated and sent Gabriel Olondriz to prison to serve a life sentence.

The police interrogate Raphael in custody. The boy is nearly killed during interrogation. Gardo meets Gabriel in prison and has a conversation with him. Gardo comes to know from Gabriel that Senator Zapanta had appropriated for himself the thirty million dollars that were received through international aid to help the poor people in that developing country. When Gabriel tried to prove that Senator Zapanta had taken that money, instead of distributing it to the poor, he tried to expose Senator Zapanta. But the powerful man, Zapanta, implicated Gabriel in several false crime cases and successfully got Gabriel into prison for life.

Gabriel's Bible assists the boys in deciphering the letter found in the bag. The boys happened to have rented a hideout with the money that Rat happened to have saved. They decode that letter in that hideout.

The boys know that the police are looking for them and that