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Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes and Nothings Changed Essay

The two poems I have been studying are Nothings Changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika, and Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The poem Two Scavengers in a Truck,  Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes is about stating how the “American dream” is no reality and that not everyone can become rich and not everyone has equal opportunities. Nothings Changed is about the time of separation of black and white people in Africa. In Nothings changed the poem is very personal, as he has experienced the time of apartheid in Africa. He writes to show how although the government has changed the way in which black people get treated has not. Whereas in Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes the writer took a snapshot of the American lifestyle. He seams very disjointed about it and is just writing how it is and has know great feelings about the situation.

                                                                                                                                                The poems are also very similar as they are both show how a democracy or change was meant to solve everyone’s problems, yet it didn’t. In Nothings Changed the writer says “upmarket” this suggests that it is posh and has a rich only type of attitude and that him, or his people aren’t welcome. In Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes it says “his architects office” this also is a way of writing that he is rich. Both poems are comparing the “upper class” to the lower, this tells us that the poems convey the same message that although everyone should be equal the aren’t.

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Nothings Changed is about an area in South Africa during the time of apartheid, when black and white people had different sets of rights and were forced to live separately from one another. Black people were seen as second-class citizens, and had inferior living conditions. The poem expresses the author's anger about how he was treated and how black people where treated. In nothings changed the poet is comparing the Africa from when the whites where in power, to now when black people have power, and nothing has changed in how black people are treated. To make this point ...

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