Essay Plan. Compare how Two Scavengers In A Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes and Nothings Changed portray culture.

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Compare how ‘Two Scavengers In A Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes’ and ‘Nothing’s Changed’ portray culture.

Intro:

  • Both describe the separation between different social classes
  • Ferlinghetti illustrates that there is an opportunity for change in everyone
  • Afrika says that nothing’s changed, and it never will
  • Both use angry tones

Both describe the separation between different social classes

  • Ferlinghetti shows it through appearance
  • Beautiful People: ‘hip three-piece linen suit’ ‘short skirt and colored stocking’ ‘shoulder-length blond hair & sunglasses’ ‘casually coifed’- sibilance makes them sound smooth
  • Scavengers: ‘red plastic blazers’ ‘grey iron hair’ ‘hunched back’- grotesque
  • ‘Also with long hair and sunglasses’- born at some time with different opportunities, so similar yet so different
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  • Afrika shows it through food
  • Rich and Powerful: ‘haute cuisine’- only the best, expensive, up-market, exclusive
  • Poor and Powerless: ‘bunny chow’- cheap meat, a poor man’s hamburger

Ferlinghetti illustrates that there is an opportunity for change in everyone

  • No punctuation indicates classes are not set in stone, freedom, written in free verse
  • ‘Holding all four close together’- however different they are, anything can happen.
  • ‘looking down into’- role reversal
  • ‘Also with long hair and sunglasses’
  • The American dream

Afrika says that nothing’s changed, and it never will

  • ‘We know where we belong’- in contrast, ...

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