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Comparing The Rent Collector And Behind The Beautiful Forevers

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In two community's of trash pickers, two authors visit improvised city slums in two developing countries. The stories both entail the hardships of trash pickers surrounding metropolitan areas in devolving countries. While Camron Wright, author of The Rent Collector, equips first person to create a personal and poignant account, Katherine Boo, the author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, employs third person to invoke an informative, somber report. These effective uses of person allow for the authors to sufficiently craft two similar accounts with completely different reader experiences. Camron Wright, author of The Rent Collector, utilizes first person to in order to convey the exact emotion of characters. In chapter twenty five of the

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