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

• 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, everything is set in stone
• Blacks are separated, just looking in- not only is he from the outside looking in physically, he is also separated by mental boundaries.
• ‘I press my nose’- he is keen to acquire a sense of the atmosphere in the room showing that he longs to have their lifestyle, but never will, as nothing’s changed.

Both use angry tones

• 'Nothing's Changed'

• Very angry and violent,
• Shows the poets attitude to the fact that nothing has changed
• His ideas and violent feelings are revealed in his tone.
• He shows a very bad attitude towards white people.
• The tone can be seen as that of a resigned way, as if he knows that it almost too much to hope that things can change.

• ‘Two Scavengers In A Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes’

• Loud angry tone to protest about the failure of democracy
• Can also be seen as a sombre, muted tone, to express sadness that a gap remains between rich and poor.
• Comparison in detail has been done between the two garbage men and the cool couples.