Aqila Ndaru Wiandra / 1202621012

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What and how the writer describe it.
Sight - Window: Open (...stood by the open window...)
- City: Big and angry (...the glare of the big angry city...), hanging over the shoulder of the hills,
no worse than others, rich, vigorous, full of pride, lost, beaten, full of emptiness
- People: Dying, being maimed, cut, crushed, beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, murdered,
hungry, sick, bored, desperate angry, cruel, feverish, shaken
Sound - Police and fire sirens: Like a banshee wail (Far off the banshee wail of police or fire sirens...),
rose and fell, never silent (...never for completely silent.)
 touch - Glass: Flying (...cut by flying glass...)
- Tires: Heavy (...crushed against steering wheels or under heavy tires)

taste
- (Alcohol) drink: Stiff (I mixed a stiff one and ...)

smell

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When viewed from a highland, Jakarta is evidently a city of disparity. You can see high-rise,
sophisticated buildings scratch the grey clouds in the sky as the riverside slums are razed to the
town's swampy ground. There are children of Jakarta who had only known the sourness of the
spoilt asinan betawi they picked up from the town's garbage bin and there are children of Jakarta
who threw out the savory broth and juicy meat from a bowl of soto betawi just because it wasn't
warm enough. Then, an average day in Jakarta consists of seeing a platinum white, mid-sized
SUV parked next to a garbage cart that awfully reeks of rotten fish on a street where the cries of
hungry toddlers battle with the honks of cars stuck in a traffic jam can be heard. What about the
average night? It is standing in a packed Transjakarta bus while watching the city's yearly flood
gleams under the city lights and you notice the water is nearly drowning an old man's fried rice
booth. As the bus moves forward, you look up from the window to see a blinding birthday billboard
ad for some conglomerate's daughter, then you look down to witness a baby crying on a
motorcycle because the flood is freezing her body. A city so lavish yet so tormenting, only with the
gap between its people is Jakarta prospering.