Why did they go through the Waid?
Because Maria was being tested if she could live in teh rural area so she goes throug a mountainous and fieldy way and htre low way instead of the high road
Did they see anybody on teh way- asked by the father
How old is Baldo?
Why was their needed permission for Maria to scratch Labang's head?
Why was their not really a conclusion to the story?
Why does Maria call Leon Noel?
What is carretela?
Why does Balgo resis telling Noel why he was gowing through teh Waid in the beggining?
Why is father so curious what Maria did and if she sang with Noel?
Where was Baldo, Noel, and Maria comeing from?
"He did not say Maring. He did not say Mayang. I knew them that he had always called her Maria and that to us all she would be Maria; and in my mind I said 'Maria' and it was a beautiful name" (5) Why does this matter?
Leon turns into Noel to make the name sound Urban
What is the significance of teh song Noel sings?
Will Maria fit in?
yes...father accepts her
Themes: are between progress and backwardness and rural and city
Question: What do city and country mean for Bulosan and Arguilla in these stories
Argument: City is affected countryside in a bad way because city is more modern, countryside is not adapting to modernity, for maria, city adaptgin to countryside

For Arguilla, the city adapts to teh country in teh person of Maria
For Bulosan, Country is adapting to the city in teh person of Carlos

theme like marriage, tradition and old customs which is opposite in both stories, America
make into question
argument

Theme: America
Question: How is America a good and bad place, What does America mean for Bulosan