Tortilla curtain
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The Tortilla curtain is a book, which was published in 1995 by T Boyle and considered pretty controversial reading at that time. It deals mainly with the issue of illegal immigration with the central characters being a couple-Candido and Amrica, who barely manage to get by and a modern South Californian family. It is reflective of the harsh realities of life from the point of view of the immigrants, who had come to California in the hope of a better life, but face various problems, all of which are brought out keenly through forceful oratory passages that are hard-hitting and unmindful of gentler sensibilities, setting the style for the novel being one about the injustices in life faced by different cultures, with extensive use of symbolism technique.
Nature of the Tortilla Curtain
Illegal immigration was a hot socio-political issue and The Tortilla Curtain brought with it a mirror to prejudices and realism of injustice in Southern California (possibly in other parts of America as well) which did not go down too well with the common book-reading public, unaccustomed as they were to the average middle-aged-man novel. The principal character is one Delaney Mossbacher, playing at writing a nature column, hiking occasionally and being in charge of fixing dinner while the wife is an up market real estate dealer. Delaney happens to hit a Mexican on the road but buys him off with a paltry twenty dollars and this is the beginning of his successive assaults on immigrants, till he reaches a point where his understanding gets completely warped and he gives importance to his lifestyle much above that of immigrants and other living things. Candido, the Mexican, and Amrico, his wife are depicted as the two main ingredients set up in incidents in case of illegal immigration and provide the fodder for a recipe for disaster- something that befalls them very often in the story.
Current status of the Tortilla Curtain
The writer describes both sides of the coin- the hatred of the whites against the illegal immigrants’ desire to work hard in a bid to survive in hostile circumstances. The realistic balance of making both sides look human is what makes the book an interesting read and the modern classic that The Tortilla Curtain has become today, a popular title, widely read in high schools and colleges countrywide.











