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Connector - week 5

By Anonymous
Connector

Olivia takes Gardo into a clothing shop as shown in this photo from the movie of 'Trash' This is to get him looking tidy so they can make a trip to colva prison. In the prison they walk through aisles and aisles of animal cage like cells filled with young boys and men. After long waits and long hallways they get to an empty room with a few chairs and a table. That is where they get to meet Gabriel Olondriz. He is week and dying but still willing to talk to his visitors; Gardo and Olivia.


The poor conditions in colva prison compared to real life
are sadly not all made up. People all around the world are being treated extremely badly just like in colva prison. With them being kept in hot smelly animal cage like cells. I can connect with Olivia and Gardo's feeling of the sight of the scary prison cells as I have been into a prison before. I have seen the tiny rooms made of metal bars and other materials and they do not look very comfortable to be spending more then one hour in. Another comparison from the book to my life that all throughout the book is the fact that they have to live on a rubbish dump. They are living in squishy, old, unsafe houses that aren't even real houses but old crates and boxes stacked on top of each other. They are suffering and we are living in real houses with instilation and quite often with fans and heaters. I think that if people are actually having to work with rubbish with their bare hands everyday that it should be stopped.

Popplet comparing my life and the world to the characters life and their world.

By Zoe 

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"what if they have the whole place surrounded what if they're all in plainclothes waiting for me and I don't see until it's too late"

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