Chapter 1:
T. Coraghessan Boyle, the writer of The Tortilla Curtain begins the novel with a huge accident involving Delaney Mossbacher, a white man, hitting a Hispanic person with his car; this causes a significant dilemma throughout the novel. Considering the fact that the person Delaney hits is Hispanic, they have a difficult time trying to communicate with each other. The Hispanic man and Delaney finally managed to communicate; the Hispanic man leave Delaney confused as he requests for money instead of going to see a doctor. After a couple of hours, Delaney continuously has flashbacks of the incident and finally comes to the conclusion that there is a chance that the Hispanic man he hit was an immigrant camping in Topanga State Park, that is why he did not want to go see the doctor.
Chapter 2:
This chapter changes the point of view of this novel; this novel is now being told in the point of view of the Hispanic man that got hit my Delaney, Candido Rincon. Having been hit with a car, he is overwhelmed with pain along with having to deal with his wife, America, and him not having a place to life. America finds her husband, Candido, while on her way to the bus stop and realizes that he is in excruciating pain. Still struggling with not calling a doctor America tries her best to maintain his blood, after several hours of nurturing him America has she leave to work; as much as it hurt Candido seeing America have to work because of his weakness he let her because she reminds him of their future in own a home and being stable in life.
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