Essays on Feeling Page 20

The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle Delaney Mossbacher, the protagonist of Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain, is the typical American family man. He is married to Kyra, “the undisputed volume leader at Mike Bender Realty, Inc. ” and he is the stepfather of Jordan. As Kyra has a fulltime job, Delaney takes care of Jordan…

Of all the atrocities, man has endured; none has caused more misery anddestruction to the soul than human bondage, also identified as slavery. It isillustrated in Louisa May Alcotts story: My Contraband, originallypublished The Brothers. The Civil War was fought over slavery. It pittedbrother against brother, but this did not kill these brothers, it was…