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    Carlos Bulosan and his illiterate father live as farmers in a remote Philippine province. When Carlos' brother Berto, living in California, writes a letter to their father in English, they struggle to find someone to translate it for years. As a young man, Carlos leaves home for the city and eventually America. After two years in the hospital, Carlos remembers the letter and asks his father to send it. He translates the letter into their native dialect for his father, but later learns his father had died years before.

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    Carlos Bulosan and his illiterate father live as farmers in a remote Philippine province. When Carlos' brother Berto, living in California, writes a letter to their father in English, they struggle to find someone to translate it for years. As a young man, Carlos leaves home for the city and eventually America. After two years in the hospital, Carlos remembers the letter and asks his father to send it. He translates the letter into their native dialect for his father, but later learns his father had died years before.

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    Carlos Bulosan and his illiterate father live as farmers in a remote Philippine province. When Carlos' brother Berto, living in California, writes a letter to their father in English, they struggle to find someone to translate it for years. As a young man, Carlos leaves home for the city and eventually America. After two years in the hospital, Carlos remembers the letter and asks his father to send it. He translates the letter into their native dialect for his father, but later learns his father had died years before.

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    Carlos Bulosan and his illiterate father live as farmers in a remote Philippine province. When Carlos' brother Berto, living in California, writes a letter to their father in English, they struggle to find someone to translate it for years. As a young man, Carlos leaves home for the city and eventually America. After two years in the hospital, Carlos remembers the letter and asks his father to send it. He translates the letter into their native dialect for his father, but later learns his father had died years before.

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    THE STORY OF A LETTER by Carlos Bulosan - PLOT

    1. EXPOSITION
    Answer: Carlos Bulosan and his father live in a province and they are farmers. They are also
    being surrounded by mountains. He has two brothers, Berto and Nicasio. His brother Berto who
    ran away from home was in California when he wrote a letter for his father in English.
    Unfortunately, both Carlo and his father are both illiterate.
    2. RISING ACTION
    Answer: Since both father and son couldn’t read, they asked numerous times for help. It
    includes the priest who died from overeating, his brother Nicasio who suddenly had gone to
    America, and a teacher who only knew Spanish and their dialect. These unfortunate
    circumstances made them hopeless.
    3. CLIMAX
    Answer: When young Carlos grew up, he suddenly wanted to explore other places but couldn’t
    go because his father was getting old. However, his desire to left the village came impossible
    when their farm was taken away from them. He went first to Baguio and he was discovered by
    a romantic painter and took him to Manila as her model. Then he went to America after saving
    enough money. Something happened that made him stay in hospital bed for two years but he
    used that time to read books in hunger while a nurse helped him. End of the first year when he
    remembered the letter of his brother Berto so he wrote a letter to his father asking him to send
    his brother’s letter and it arrived six months later. When he received his brother’s letter, he
    translated it into their dialect for his father to understand and then he sent it back with the
    original.
    4. FALLING ACTION
    Answer: Fortunately, after years of staying in the hospital he finally got better. He decided to
    explore the city of Los Angeles and find his two brothers. He found his brother Berto in a beer
    tavern and his brother Nicasio in Delano.
    5. RESOLUTION
    Answer: His landlord gave him the letter of his brother and its translation with a note from the
    postmaster of the town that his father had died years before. He read the letter which was the
    reason he desired to be away from their village. He held the letter while laughing and choking
    with tears and read the letter about Berto describing the America and sharing it to his father.

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