However, his intellectual horizons are constrained by the frequent acts of violence that he witnesses and occasionally participates in. With the help of inspirational acquaintances, Allos eventually educates himself through reading and writing. Rather, his frantic, aimless wandering shows an utter lack of roots and purpose in his new country. The destinations of his travels rarely matter. For years, Allos travels up and down the Pacific Coast as he searches for work, hope, and his scattered family members. Filipinos cannot become naturalized American citizens, which hampers their upward mobility and aspirations. Many Americans despise and look down on Filipinos, especially in California. Unfortunately, America is not what Allos imagined it to be.
Eventually, after his father loses all of the family’s land, Allos goes to America to join Amado and Macario. He is consumed with a desire to educate himself but knows that this is unlikely if he remains in the Philippines. Allos has four brothers whom he has never even met during the first part of the book: Amado, Macario, Leon, and Luciano.Īllos’s travels-sometimes he will visit three or more towns in the space of a page-expose him to the middle class, a privileged group of elites who despise the peasants. His mother is a long-suffering, perennially pregnant woman with a generous heart but no real aspirations beyond survival. His father is a sad, hard-working man forced to watch the amount of land he is allowed to farm dwindle. His awareness of his family is limited to impressions.
I had written him that I would pass through his town on my way to Manila, and asked him to stand in front of his house and wait for my bus.Carlos Bulosan-who goes by Allos for most of the book-is an illiterate peasant child in Binalonan, Philippines in the 1910s.
#4 I saw my brother Leon, who had already sold one hectare of our land, leave the barrio with his wife to live in another part of Luzon. She came to our barrio and hired herself to one of the farmers who had more hectares of land than the others. She came from a poor family in the north, in the province of Ilocos Sur, where the peasants were overcrowded in a narrow barren land. #3 My brother Leon met the girl who became his wife. The younger generation had become total strangers to the older generation, and they were rebelling against their heritage. He had returned to our barrio, in the farming town of Binalonan, on the island of Luzon. #2 I met my brother, who had gone to fight a strange war in Europe, when I was five years old. He looked exactly like his picture on the family wall. I ran to meet him, and when I saw him, I was shocked. #1 I was the first to see my brother Leon coming through the tall grass in the dry riverbed. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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