My family are not that poor and not that rich either but you can compare me to the rich children because I am healthier than them as of what I can see. I was amazed but still clueless about what really happened. It did have a twist I thought when the father is collecting coins he would actually give it to the rich family to pay but no. I think Carlos Bulosan did a great job creating this story. The lesson of this story could be “Never let your poverty be your weakness” or “Tell the truth” tell the truth because in the story the father goes to court and he did tell the truth, you should never lie. Why is the rich family looking like they are the poor ones while the poor family is looking like the rich ones? I don’t get it. There are question building up in my mind after reading the story. I got weirded out a little and I also didn’t understand it that much.
The narrator’s father is really smart, how can he think of that so fast? I don’t know how to express it but I do think that the father is genius. The narrator’s sister started it and they all laughed, the judge’s laugh is the loudest. The judge told the narrator’s father that his uncle died laughing and the narrator’s father asked the judge if he want to hear his family laugh, the judge agreed. The judge favored the side of the narrator’s father. The narrator’s father then said that they already paid them and it is just fair. He collected coins from their friends in a straw hat, then he shakes the hat and asked the rich family if they heard the spirit of the money and they said yes. The father of the narrator goes to court and the said that they are going to pay the rich family. The rich man then charged the narrators family stealing the spirit of his family’s food. The children are healthy even though they are mostly hungry, while their rich neighbor’s children are thin and looks sick although they are always cooking plenty of delicious food, the poor neighbors are smelling the food that is being cooked every day. His other books include the poetry collections Letter from America (1942), Chorus from America (1942), and The Voice of Bataan (1943), as well as the novels The Cry and the Dedication (written in the 1950s and published posthumously in 1995) and The Sound of Falling Light (1960).It is a child taking about its family that is poor but wealthy because of laughter. Joseph McCarthy during the anti-Communist movement of the 1950s. Because of his radical activism, Bulosan was blacklisted by Sen. Bulosan was commissioned by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1945 to write ?Four Freedoms,? an essay for the Federal Building in San Francisco. Excerpts of his 1944 book, Laughter of My Father, were published in The New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. The horrendous conditions of Filipino laborers were fictionalized in his most famous work, America Is in the Heart (1946).
In the U.S., he worked in an Alaskan fish cannery and as a fruit and vegetable picker in Washington and California, and eventually became an activist in the labor movement. One of the earliest and most influential of Asian American writers, Bulosan emigrated from the Philippines in 1931.