My Father Goes To Court

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Title: My Father Goes To Court

 Author: Carlos Bulusan

 Author's Background: Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (November 24, 1913 - September 11, 1956) was an English-language Filipino novelist and poet who spent most of his life in the United States. His best-known work today is the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart, but he first gained fame for his 1943 essay on The Freedom from Want.

 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Bulosan

 Vocabulary:

 Anaemic - suffering from anaemia.

Robust - strong and healthy.

Molave - is a medium size tree which grows to 15 meters.

Feeble - very weak.

 Morose - very serious, unhappy, and quiet.

 source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary

 Characters:

 The Young Narrator - the son of the Father

 The Father - the young narrator's Father

 The Young Narrator's siblings

 The Rich Man - who filed a complaint against the Narrator's family

 The Rich Man's family - testified for the rich man

 The Rich Man's maid - Cook of the Rich Man's family

 The Judge - from the trial court

 Settings: In a small town on the island of Luzon, Philippines
                 Poor family's house
                 Rich family's house
                 At the courtroom or courthall

Exposition: The story begins with the young narrator introducing his family who lived in a town in his childhood days. He also explained his life after several years when their father's farm had been destroyed due to floods, and where they had a next door neighbour, a very rich man, whose sons and daughters seldom came out of the house. When the rich man's servants were cooking something, the action begins to rise.

Rising Action: The conflict in the story is when the rich man files a protest against the narrator and his family for stealing the spirit of the rich man's food and wealth because the rich family became very sick and blamed them for it.

Climax: The climax of the story is when the narrator together with his family went to the courtroom first to talk about the case filed by the rich man.

Falling Action: The denoument of the story is when the father agreed to pay his crime. He took his straw hat off and began filling it up with centavo coins, and dredged it on the floor. The sweet tinkle of coins carried beautifully in the courtroom.

Ending: After the father paying his debts committed to the rich man's family, the sisters of the narrator started laughing and the rest of the spectators were laughing with them including the judge, the loudest of all.

Symbolism: The first symbolism is the Spirit of the food - it represents the aroma of the food that brings to the rich man's house. Second is, Molave - symbolizes superior family that the rich man had. Third is, Spirit of the money - it represents the sweet tinkle of silver coins that carried beautifully in the courtroom. Lastly, is the laughing family - it shows the positive outlook in life, be happy, and thankful of what you have.

Theme: The theme of the story depicts the social status of a family and how people make small problems become a big problem over time.

 Lesson: Without stupid people, we would have no one to laugh at. Always be contented of what you have within your family and keep smiling, feel the hope, joy, peace, and love and always be HAPPY.

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