Like A Big Brave Man And Brother My Brother Analysis

In whole or in part, some of the literary works of the contemporaries of Bienvenido N. Santos also dealt on the experiences of the Filipinos living in America. The review author, Fr. Miguel A. Bernad, on Santos and Carunungan: Like A Big Brave Man and Brother, My Brother, a novel by Celso Al Carunungan, said that though the literary work is considered a novel, it is actually a series of episodes in the life of a Filipino boy and the American airman who was helped by the Filipino boy’s family in escaping from the hands of the Japanese. An airplane ticket was sent to enable the boy to visit the U.S. after the war in gratitude though the airman did not survive. Fr. Bernad further went on to say that the most interesting character in the book is the boy’s uncle (Bernad 3). In “Scent of Apples,” the episode has

He was an immigrant to the U.S. by choice, searching for the “promises of a better life” (Huang 32). Unlike Mr. Santos, Mr. Bulosan came to America in 1930, a decade after Mr. Santos’ arrival in the US with a contrasting perspective in life. He was a poet, fiction writer, short story teller, and an activist. In his novel, America is in the Heart, the experiences of the immigrants and working class from the point of view of an Asian-American were presented. Mr. Bulosan told of his and other Filipinos experiences of how they endured of the “struggles, prejudice and injustice (Smith, “America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan”)” while first in the Northwestern Fisheries and later on in California. Like Mr. Santos, Mr. Bulosan mentioned of his boyhood in the Philippines. The early chapters spoke of his life as a farmer and helping the family, to include sending his brother to go to