America is in the Heart essays

America is in the Heart essays Carlos Buslosan, a man that had very different kinds life. Even thou his family was rich, they spend all their money to educate on one son. That really supervised me. Through out the book, he always had work to make living day by day. When he arrived to America he pretty much sold to fisherman in Alaska. He did not earn much from he hard work, which was 13 dollars in year. Everywhere he went seems like there was gambling house and prostitutes. All the hard worked money was spend in the house, dancing with white women and gambling. Women cheat them by tarring the ticket by every minute instead three minutes. I think these gambling and prostitutes brought bad reputation to Asian people. The brothers he met in America. They lost their job during Great Depression. They did not help him much at all. I think meeting his brothers made Carlos Bulosan to get in to gambling, robbing and ect... Through out his life he was treated worse than dogs. His life changed when he met Pasc al. Pascal was Filipino but he had white woman as a wife. After Carlos met him. He was driving away from bad influence. Making newspaper for Filipinos on farm. Short experience of writing newspaper made him as a writer at the end. Later Carlos tries to make union between different races. He had to meet them out side the city limit, because city would not allow them have union meeting. It failed by Helen, which was a strikebreaker. I think government hired her, way she came out from jail over night when others stayed 3 days. Later in Pearl Harbor, he lost his brother Macario. In the book there was nothing about getting discriminated from Pearl Harbor incident. Reading this book was interesting, seeing how he spent his life as farmer, gambler, newspaper editor and writer. ...