... Solitude" industry is blamed for the horrible living conditions in the cities and the general corruption of nature. Llosa claims, "Everything man-made is ugly" and describes the city of Malecon as "fear, in the shape of gates, walls, sirens, and spotlights."15 He discusses the garbage that piles up and "spills down onto Malecon's face." Llosa depicts the Development Center as "one of the last of the old low-rise buildings to resist ... people's houses which Llosa describes "People have resigned themselves to the vultures, roaches, mice, and the stinking garbage dump whose birth and grow...

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