Something for Nothing
For the story My Father goes court the first thing I observed was the discrimination between the rich and the poor. As discussed in our class the author lived in the time of the great depression on America so maybe he was telling his audience about it. For my understanding of the story is that the author was trying to tell us about discrimination and shows the big gap between the rich and the poor. When i was watching a movie Bleach it came to my mind that the author of the story was also trying to tell how people act based on there social status, for example the rich should be the ones with power and be able to press on the poor and the poor should be the ones who are miserable and should be sad. So basically the idea is ( the rich are suppose to act these way and the poor should act like that ). While in the other hand the story proved other wise, Carlos Bulosan expressed in this story that people can break the barrier between ones social status and act according to ones will and contentment.
For the story How my Brother Leon Broth home a Wife I noticed that the characters are basically representing what Filipinos are like specially in the provinces. He forged in this story the Philippine culture and describe the environment or the ambiance here in the Philippines. Manuel Arguilla showed the simplicity of common people and the difference on how families here differ from how families are in the states.
The common things i observed in both Carlos Bulosan and Manuel Arguilla is there passion for writing even they are both in America. They have the spirits of nationalism in there stories because even they are not in our country they wrote stories about the Philippines and the Filipinos. Also I noticed that in both their stories it emphasizes on the Filipinos culture and the simplicity. I think that they also want to show our attitude towards life like for example we pinoys tend to laugh a lot even we have problems or entertain our selves when where tense, like Noel and Maria sang on the way to Noels house. And for the heck of it ,they are after all writing for an American readers; maybe they are telling them that Filipinos are not that different from the Americans and telling them trite us kindly or something
For the story My Father goes court the first thing I observed was the discrimination between the rich and the poor. As discussed in our class the author lived in the time of the great depression on America so maybe he was telling his audience about it. For my understanding of the story is that the author was trying to tell us about discrimination and shows the big gap between the rich and the poor. When i was watching a movie Bleach it came to my mind that the author of the story was also trying to tell how people act based on there social status, for example the rich should be the ones with power and be able to press on the poor and the poor should be the ones who are miserable and should be sad. So basically the idea is ( the rich are suppose to act these way and the poor should act like that ). While in the other hand the story proved other wise, Carlos Bulosan expressed in this story that people can break the barrier between ones social status and act according to ones will and contentment.
For the story How my Brother Leon Broth home a Wife I noticed that the characters are basically representing what Filipinos are like specially in the provinces. He forged in this story the Philippine culture and describe the environment or the ambiance here in the Philippines. Manuel Arguilla showed the simplicity of common people and the difference on how families here differ from how families are in the states.
The common things i observed in both Carlos Bulosan and Manuel Arguilla is there passion for writing even they are both in America. They have the spirits of nationalism in there stories because even they are not in our country they wrote stories about the Philippines and the Filipinos. Also I noticed that in both their stories it emphasizes on the Filipinos culture and the simplicity. I think that they also want to show our attitude towards life like for example we pinoys tend to laugh a lot even we have problems or entertain our selves when where tense, like Noel and Maria sang on the way to Noels house. And for the heck of it ,they are after all writing for an American readers; maybe they are telling them that Filipinos are not that different from the Americans and telling them trite us kindly or something