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    The document summarizes 12 chapters from a book. Chapter 5 depicts Carlos and his mother journeying between towns selling goods and working different jobs, where Carlos realizes the cruelty of the middle class and vows to become a doctor after witnessing a death. Chapter 6 discusses Macario being forced to quit teaching after refusing to marry a girl, while others take on risky jobs like coconut harvesting. Chapter 7-11 discuss Allos moving to Baguio City for work, returning home to find his family in a poor state and relocating to Lingayen for fishing. He does well in school but leaves after a pregnancy issue. Chapter 12 has Allos learn his brother ended his political career and feeling sentimental about their old house

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    The document summarizes 12 chapters from a book. Chapter 5 depicts Carlos and his mother journeying between towns selling goods and working different jobs, where Carlos realizes the cruelty of the middle class and vows to become a doctor after witnessing a death. Chapter 6 discusses Macario being forced to quit teaching after refusing to marry a girl, while others take on risky jobs like coconut harvesting. Chapter 7-11 discuss Allos moving to Baguio City for work, returning home to find his family in a poor state and relocating to Lingayen for fishing. He does well in school but leaves after a pregnancy issue. Chapter 12 has Allos learn his brother ended his political career and feeling sentimental about their old house

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    The document summarizes 12 chapters from a book. Chapter 5 depicts Carlos and his mother journeying between towns selling goods and working different jobs, where Carlos realizes the cruelty of the middle class and vows to become a doctor after witnessing a death. Chapter 6 discusses Macario being forced to quit teaching after refusing to marry a girl, while others take on risky jobs like coconut harvesting. Chapter 7-11 discuss Allos moving to Baguio City for work, returning home to find his family in a poor state and relocating to Lingayen for fishing. He does well in school but leaves after a pregnancy issue. Chapter 12 has Allos learn his brother ended his political career and feeling sentimental about their old house

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    America Is in The Heart

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    The document summarizes 12 chapters from a book. Chapter 5 depicts Carlos and his mother journeying between towns selling goods and working different jobs, where Carlos realizes the cruelty of the middle class and vows to become a doctor after witnessing a death. Chapter 6 discusses Macario being forced to quit teaching after refusing to marry a girl, while others take on risky jobs like coconut harvesting. Chapter 7-11 discuss Allos moving to Baguio City for work, returning home to find his family in a poor state and relocating to Lingayen for fishing. He does well in school but leaves after a pregnancy issue. Chapter 12 has Allos learn his brother ended his political career and feeling sentimental about their old house

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    Chapter 5

    - The chapter depicted the journey of


    Carlos and his mother throughout
    different towns to sell beans,
    harvest mongo, and undertake
    different forms of livelihood.
    - It was also here when Carlos
    realized the cruelty of the middle
    class.
    - He also asserted to himself that he
    will become a doctor, after seeing
    Irene, her sister, die in front of her
    at their home.
    Chapter 6
    - Macario met a girl who eventually
    brought misfortune to him, as he
    was forced to stop teaching at the
    local public school because he did
    not want to marry the girl.
    - Francisca was about to be born
    - He knew that marriage would be
    the end of his family obligations,
    which would stop the installments
    for their land
    - Allos decided to take on another
    job, harvesting coconuts, which
    resulted to his injury
    - Macario was able to teach again
    but in Mindanao, then eventually
    contemplated to go the US
    - Amado after being kicked out of
    the public market, took on a ship to
    America.
    Chapter 7
    Chapter 8
    Chapter 9
    - Allos was able to start fresh in
    Baguio City where there a great
    contrast was established between
    his current and former life
    - It seemed like he was entering his
    manhood and leaving all the pain
    of his childhood
    - He was able to secure a job as a
    house help then eventually as a
    library help
    - He learned basic English

    He inspired hope from Abraham


    Lincoln, who was the poor person
    who became the president of the
    United States

    Chapter 10
    - Allos came back to Binalonan
    - He discovered that his family was
    not in the best state that he hoped
    for
    - He felt he was home again, and
    everything seemed alright
    - His family had already moved to
    Mangusmana, but he eventually
    needed to go back to Binalonan
    then to Lingayen, hoping to earn
    more money in the fishing industry
    Chapter 11
    - In Lingayen, Allos stayed in his
    cousins boarding house and
    worked with the fisherman who
    owned it.
    - He was able to study at a
    highschool and was able to interact
    with his English teacher whom he
    realized as someone who turned
    his back from his own class and
    heritage after being educated in
    the US.
    - He was able to excel in school and
    eventually grew popular
    - He gained importance and
    relevance to the community he is
    in, something that he didnt have
    before.
    - He then was advised to get out of
    Lingayen after being mistakenly
    part of a premarital birth of a baby
    - He got perfect credit cards
    - I was nearing the dark land of
    home.
    Chapter 12
    - As he arrived, he deduced that his
    brother Luciano already ended his
    political ambitions and will soon be
    having two kids
    - They felt sentimental about their
    old house as they would never get
    to live in it again

    Allos created a conviction that he


    will be buying the house again and
    will furnish it once he has enough
    money. He felt that losing the
    house meant losing his family as
    they are now scattered.
    He said goodbye to his family as he
    will be travelling to America

    He arrived in Manila and was


    exposed to the frustrations the city
    had to offer

    Part Two

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