Lesson: Just be happy, spend time with your family, bond with them. Theme: The story is about family being happy. i think that rich man is busy working, making money for his children to give what they want, but the children i think need their father's love. They may have everything they want, but not everything they need.
Being pale and thin represents sickness, unwell or sad. The rich man's children being pale and thin. Symbolism: The symbolism i saw in the story is the court, it symbolizes justice. The laughter if the Judge was the loudest of all. The father told the judge if he wanted to hear the father's family laugh the judge answered " why not?" The narrator's sister started laughing then the family then the spectators. The Judge then says, "case dismissed."Įnding: The Judge came down from his high chair to shake the father's hand and told the father that his uncle died laughing. The Father said "Then you are paid" The rich man opened his mouth to speak and fell to the floor without a sound. He shakes the hat with the coins in it and asked the rich man if he heard it. The father thanked the judge and proceeds to the other room with the hat almost full of coins. He then asked the judge if he can stride to the other room and stay there for a minute, the judge says "as you wish". The Father stood up and took his boy's hat, and began filling it up with his centavos then went to the mother where the mother took out her silver coins and puts it in the hat then the narrators brothers threw in their change. 2008.Falling action: After the questions that father has asked the rich man, the father then agreed to pay to pay the "crime" they had committed. Grow "'The Laughter of my Father': a survival kit". And so, like most folklore, it has a subtext that promotes the downtrodden in favor of the rich, but no strong protest is evident. This kind of plot is found in some of the Juan Tamad stories beloved in the Philippines. Whether or not this is true, as seen in “My Father Goes to Court” the traditional folkloric plot found in trickster-type tales is present. It was said that Bulosan picked up the plots for these stories from an old man in his hometown. Grow observes Bulosan’s stories read like folklore. In particular, “My Father Goes to Court” fails as protest literature because the judge favors the side of the poor father, showing that the system can work for the downtrodden. Grow suggests that perhaps what accounts for Bulosan’s anger over the critics’ reaction is his anger over the mistreatment he received as a Filipino living in America, which he might have hoped to communicate through his stories. I am an angry man.” Unfortunately, the general consensus about these stories of Bulosan seems to be, as said Avelina Gil, that although they were "ntended to be serious protest against the economic system of his time,” the stories’ “hilarious, even grotesque, situations which Bulosan treats almost like vignettes mask the satire on Filipino poverty and ignorance." L.M. He said in response to the criticism on the book: “I am mad because when my book 'The Laughter of my Father' was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, the critics called me ‘the manifestation of the pure Comic Spirit.’ I am not a laughing man. In fact, Bulosan was outraged by the focus on his stories’ humor.
This story, along with the others in the collection The Laughter of My Father, has a serious intent behind its humor. The judge rules in the poor father’s favor, and the rich man is forced to depart with no other payment than the “spirit” of the money the poor man collected.
Being charged to pay for the spirit of food which his family supposedly got from its smell, he maintains that the jingling of the coins is a fair equivalent. He does this by collecting coins from all his friends present in his hat, then shaking the hat full of coins. The absurd case goes to court, and the narrator’s father agrees to pay back the rich neighbor. Consequently, the rich man brings a charge against the narrator's family for stealing the spirit of his family’s food. In contrast, their rich neighbor’s children are thin and sickly although they are given plenty of good food, which their impoverished neighbors enjoy smelling over the fence. The children are all strong and healthy even though they often go hungry. Though they are poor they are full of mischief and laughter. The young narrator begins by describing his large family. The story is set in a city in the Philippines.
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