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Frederico Gonz
A police detective in search of Senator Zapanta’s stolen fortune. The tired man brutally interrogates Raphael, violently choking him and threatening to break Raphael’s bones one by one—but he is unsuccessful in getting any information out of Raphael. The tired man concludes that Raphael, just like all the city’s scavengers, is worthless “garbage.”
Tired man Quotes in Trash
The Trash quotes below are all either spoken by Tired man or refer to Tired man. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2: Chapter 2 Quotes
It sounds crazy, but there was some part of me sure I’d never found it, and some other part of me begging me not to give up—maybe for José Angelico, because we knew more about him now.
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Raphael, a young dumpsite boy, recently found a bag that the police are after while scavenging in trash. The bag contained a key, which Raphael, Gardo, and Rat (the story’s three protagonists) used, to retrieve a letter from a locker in Central Station. When the boys return to the dumpsite in the evening, they find the place crawling with police, and Raphael is arrested. Despite enduring a brutally violent interrogation by a detective referred to as “tired man”—in which Raphael’s face is split open, his body is dangled out of a window, and he his is choked—Raphael vehemently denies finding Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi earum. Ad tenetur laboriosam. Eum
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Tired man Character Timeline in Trash
The timeline below shows where the character Tired man appears in Trash. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 2: Chapter 2
...comes in and has Raphael hauled upstairs and placed in a room marked “six.” A tired man explains that Raphael is in Ermita Police Station and he asks about the bag. Raphael...
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The tired man says that this won’t end until Raphael gives them the bag. Shaking, Raphael knocks over...
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The tired man fires repeated questions at Raphael: he asks how “trash like you” can read (Gardo and...
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The tired man twists Raphael’s arm behind him and says that they could break all of Raphael’s bones—starting...
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