Global North, Global South.

As we have discussed Tropic Of Orange is a book that displays the differences between the Global South and the Global North and touches upon how capitalism and the development in technology are constantly adapting our lives and changing them for the better, however many countries in the Global South are still suffering immense poverty. Each character in Tropic of Orange represents and portrays a stereotype of many minority social and ethnic groups that we see in the United States.
Readdressing the themes of capitalism and what we visualise and romanticise as ‘living the good life’ Manzanar in my perspective is the most important character in breaking down these stereotypical ideas and seeing the world and its divides for what it really is.  Manzanar represents the two polar opposites of the characters that are represented within the novel. As we know, at a point in Manzanar’s life he was a successful surgeon , perhaps this is where Manzanar seems to have greater wisdom and broader perspectives than many of the novels characters, he one lived the highlife that society had guided him too and is now a homeless man living under the bypass. “Now human civilization covered everything in layers, generations of building upon building upon building the residue, burial sites, and garbage that defined people after people for centuries. Manzanar saw it, but darkly, before it would shift irrevocably[...]filling a northern vacuum with its cultural conflicts, political disruption, romantic language, with its one hundred years of solitude and its tropical sadness.” (170)
This extract highlights the growing changes and advances to society in regards to capitalism as well as human population whilst commenting on how the Global North and the Global South are different in their issues but yet intertwine. The latter of this extract implies the idea that the struggling issues that the Global South suffers with are often inflicted by the Global North. This places reemphasises how the Global North and Global South not only connect and interlink on a physical scale,  but in terms how they connect and intertwine on a social aspect and in this sense highlights the vast cultural and economical divides not only in the world but in the United States.