Tortilla+Curtain+Quotes+and+Satire

Tortilla Curtain Quotes: “He was elated and devastated at the same time: she’d got work, but he hadn’t. They would have money to eat, but he hadn’t earned it. No: a seventeen-year-old village girl had earned it, and at what price? And what did that make him?” (122) – Candido

“These weren’t her hands—they were the hands of a corpse” (131) – América

“Still this congregation was disturbing. There had to be a limit, a boundary, a cap, or they’d be in Calabasas next and then Thousand Oaks and on and on up the coast till there was no real estate left” (159) – Kyra

“This isn’t about coyotes, don’t kid yourself. It’s about Mexicans, it’s about blacks. It’s about exclusion, division, hate” (220) – Delaney

“Her mid raced ahead and back again, and then she thought of the woods, of the canyon, of that shitpile of sticks, and she wanted to die” (235) – América

“ ‘Arsonist!’ somebody shouted. ‘Spic!’ And the crowd erupted in a cacophony of threats and name-calling. ‘Go back to Mexico!’ shouted a man in a sport shirt like Delaney’s, while the woman beside him cried ‘Wetbacks!’ over and over till her face was swollen with it” (289) – Crowd

Satire:
 * Direct and Indirect satire
 * o Direct- addressed in first person
 * o Indirect- addressed in character thoughts, narrative style, or plot
 * Satirical devices
 * o Irony- contrasting implied and expressed attitudes
 * o Parody- An imitation for comedic purposes
 * o Understatement- purposely stating something as less than it really is
 * o Overstatement- using hyperbole
 * o Caricature-a portrait that emphasizes certain bodily features
 * o Burlesque
 * § High- treating mundane subjects as extremely important
 * § Low- treating serious issues in a comedic manner