The United States of America is a nation composed predominantly of immigrants. Slowly the systematic oppression against poor farmers in his native country dawns on the young Bulosan, and disillusioned by the hopelessness of his nation he blindly takes a ship to America in search of greener pastures. Consequently his family is left to the mercies of farming for wealthy landowners who take almost everything they raise. His father is a poor farmer attending to a small plot of land which they eventually lose as collateral after missing a single loan payment taken so that they could give a proper education to one of his elder brothers. America is in the hearts of men."Ĭarlos Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel starts out with his early life born from a lowly peasant family in the Philippines. America is not merely a land or an institution. America is not bound by geograpahical latitudes. We are all Americans that have toiled and suffered and known oppression and defeat, from the first Indian that offered peace to the last Filipino pea pickers. "It is but fair to say that America is not a land of one race or one class of men.
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