1. Blog post title: Family: Using the phrase, “In this story, family means…” Discuss the issue of family in Trash. Explain your choices.

1.       Blog post title: Family: Using the phrase, “In this story, family means…” Discuss the issue of family in Trash. Explain your choices.

In this story, people that live in the dumpsite they all are “families” with each other even they are not true family with each other. They want to be families because firstly they are orphans most of them doesn’t have mums, dads or any other relative families. In this story families mean trust, friendship and teamwork. Family means trust in this story because like Gardo, Raphael and Rat calls Ms Olivia, sister Olivia they call Ms Olivia like that because they trust them like a family (quote). Families in the dumpsite mean friendship and teamwork because Raphael calls Gardo his brother at (quote) and family is teamwork because if you live in the dumpsite you would probably sorting out rubbish all day and you would want to work/co-operate with other people. Rat didn’t have any family but after he had started to help Gardo and Raphael he got a new “family” that he could stay with. Family could mean different to different places but all the families are important.

Is it OK to lie? (Draft)

There were many lies in the book Trash, and it was mostly told by the boys that live in the dump site, for example Raphael told the police that he didn't find a bag but found a shoe and Rat lied about that he had no money but actually he had full box of it and he was saving it for the faire to go to his city. Also dump site boys lied to Father Juilliard about using computer, they have told Father Juilliard that they are solving a newspaper puzzle but they were actually searching information about Jose Angelico.

Boys in the dump site lied a lot, but the police lied as well as them. The police lied about the promising to give reward to the person who finds the bag the police lied about giving reward because if there is a reward many people will try to find it.

Is it ok to lie? In my opinion it’s ok for the boys to lie that live in the dumpsite because they have nothing much, all they have is them self and they need to survive. Surviving with only truth is really hard