Questions that the stories raises

The relationship between the two brothers?
why did they go through the Waig (It is the long way)?
What do we know about Maria?
How old is baldo? How innocent?-really innocent.
Why would the father ask if Maria was afraid of Labang?
What was the sygnifigance of the song, "Sky Sown with Stars"?
What kind of way did Leon mis the city?
What is the connection between Leon and Noel?
Why would Maria be afraid that Leon's father didn't like her?
What is the signifigance of Baldo talking to Labang loudly in front of of the house of lacay Julian?
Who is Moning and Lacay Julian?
Has she met him before or is this the first time?
Where is Leon and Maria coming from(What city or place)?
What country does this take place in?
What class does leon and Baldo come from?
What class does Maria come from?
What is the laughter between Maria and Leon repressent?
How does he use language?

He used metophors:
pg. 6 The Paragraph about Labang's white coat?
pg. 5 The peregraph where they talk about other possible names
pg.5 & 6The paragraph where Baldo ponders the name Noel

Maria comes from the country and Leon is fromth e country.
Maria has inverted Leon's name so that it is more urban, new, american ideas.
All the laughter leaves Maria when she sees their star because she is afraid that the father will not except her.
He sings her the Star song (that city folk won't know) and he sings her the song to confort her and introduce her to country life and make herfeel accepted.
No one passes through the Waig at night when no one passes through at night.
The father doesn't want the couple to be seen because if the father didn't accept her then it would not be emarrassing.
Leon is surprised when they go through the roads and the Waig.
Leons response to father wanted to go through the field instead of the road was to hitch Labang to a run down carrage. The father is trying to test Maria with Country things to see if she can be countryfied and fit in.
Maria tries to fit and is willing to become part of the country life.
Maria cries with the mother and sister because they are tears of joy. Another reason is that the father will not accept her.
The final thing that the father finds about Maria is that she sang the "Sky Sown wirh Stars"
the father tells Baldo to water the bull shows that he accepts maria.

The two stories:
Manuel's intended audience is someone who knows things or has lived in the Philippines while Allos' wirting is for anyone who doesn't know anything.
They both desribe the the New American ideals and how they have changed the people.
The wifes are both beautiful and quite but are never seen again
Both countries sides are idealic and and wonerful but Ameria Story has a but in it.

Ameria is in the Heart:
first thing Leon does is pick Allos up and spin him around then starts plowing the feild.

Pg.5 & 6 talk about false ideals that seperate the new generation from the old. The new generation is upset that theere hards work doesn't pay off like all American Ideeals do. Ideals only work in America. New generation immigrats to America.

Allos and his family have four acres but they can't get ahead still.

Two events, Leon comes home, Leon brings home a wife.

Smoke should come out of the stack when a couple is married to show that the wife is a virgin but Leon didn't make smoke because he has new ideas and realizes it doesn't matter if a girl is virgin and it's none of neighbors buissness also. There backwards ideas and the new generation wants nothing to do with it.

Themes: City and country

Opposition between the country and city life.
Allos hows the progress and backwardness in the generation
marrage

Question:
What do city and country mean to Bulosan and Arguilla?
*What is the relationship between city and country in "America is in the Heart" by Carlos Bulosan and "How my Brother Leon Brought Home a wife" by Manuel Arguilla?

Arguement:Needs to lay it out
(the relation ship between city and country for the two men)
(america is in the heart) City is mordern and the country is not adapting.
(Brought home a wife) The City, Maria is adapting to the country.
* A city adapts to the country in the person of Maria.
*The country adapts to the country in the pearon of Carlos

Themes Inamerica is in the Heart:

Old customes and traditions
Marrage(Allos can't get married and falls in love with white woman)
America(Question: What does America mean to Bulosan?)
(Evidence will be in the book the book and his experiences and stories and will be shown as quotes)

I agree with most of what the essay is talking about. After getting lost a few times and re-reading it a couple of times I was able to get some of the premises. It is true that most innocent and poor people have to pay for that by being oppressed or exploited. Soceity could decide to change it and help the innocent people but society tends to look away and ignore it. It is all true and it has been happening for hundreds of years. I think this is a great arguement but the people who look away and ignore it already know it. Society could undo it but they might be afraid that it would hurt their economical market and then cause them to lose their job. People also live in fear and if you could get rid of the fear then you could change the wrong in human society and make it right again.

I think that it is great that you offer sugestion to get rid of the problem but they also made me worry. I am worried that society would have to turn into an utopia in order for everyone to be treated equally and everyone's talents could be used in jobs. I am personally not a fan of utopias because people are hidden from most hurt and pain and live quite dull lives. With out changing society into an utopia I wonder how you could change it without hurting society. has the author done anything to solve the problem or help the people? I think that if you were to make up laws that didn't scare society then you could be very successful in helping the people being exploited and opressed and you could also do fundraising as well.