The title comes from tortilla which is a common phrase at the Mexican border. There is an iron curtain that can not pass as an image. You imagine this wall in Eastern Europe. Then there is a curtain of bamboo about China. In my opinion, this is not difficult to penetrate as much as an iron curtain. It is fragile and has gaps. This is not uniform. Because there is a curtain of tortilla, this is impossible to destroy the opposite. This is three barbed wire hanging on some soft tortillas. The central question of this question, and the images of the walls that appear throughout the book - the walls, the gates, the people on the walls, the walls above the walls, all of them - are related to us as seeds. Do you really have your own fortune? Do you have the right to stop people from going out? Are we obliged to help the borders, the walls and the doors?
Before exploring deeply how to expose them through tortilla's theme and satirical writing, you should first explore this work is not an ironic argument. Tortilla Curtain is an illegal immigration issue explaining the wealthy couple living in a close community, Mossbachers, and the two families of Rincon illegal immigrants who live in the valley near the house of Mossbacher. Boyle may argue that by depicting the Moorsbach people in such harsh lights, they attacked people who are racist and less susceptible to illegal immigration. But publications are not sarcastic. It is simply because it shows a factor that attacks something and has an adverse effect on society. In addition, as mentioned above, Mosbacher is considered insensitive and ignorant, and their hypocrisy may be ironic. However, works containing satirical elements do not necessarily claim that the work is a satirical work.