MY FATHER GOES

TO COURT
By; CARLOS BULOSAN
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1 Author
2 Title
3 Money is not everything.
4 What makes the story an examples of the 21st century?
TRIVIA
• “Poor family are happy when they are complete
and full of love than a rich family that don’t have a
complete and happy family”

HISTORY OF REGION
BINALONAN,PANGASINAN,PHIL.
• “It is the place where people Bring their balon
to eat.
• Hence the term BINNALONAN, w/c in ilocanoand
pangasinan means “a place where people bring and eat
their baon”, was born.
• One of Binalonan's natives is the Filipino -American writer
CARLOS BULOSAN.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AUTHOR
CARLOS BULOSAN
• Born on November 24,1913
Binalonan,Pangasinan,Phil.Islands
• He lived in Mungusmana
• He was an English-language Filipino novelist and poet
• His first work today is The semi-auto biographical America
is in the heart but first gained fame for his 1943 essay on
The freedom from want
• Died on September 11,1956 (aged 42) in Seattle,
washington,US.
VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT
• CONDEMN - express complete disapproval of censure.
• -to give (someone) a usually severe
punishment.
• ANAEMIC - laking in colour,spirit,or vitality.
• MOLAVE - a large philippine timber tree
• PRESINDENCIA - the office and function of president.
• GLOWER - have a hungry or sullen lock on one’s
face;scowl
• CONTAGIOUS - able to be passed from on person or
animal to another by touching.
• GROTESQUE - a piece of work in this style.
• WAFTED - to move lightly through the air.
CHARACTERS/CHARACTERIZATION
• NARRATOR - he is the one of the children of the
farmer/farm owner.
• FATHER/FARMER - the father of the narrator.
• CHILDREN OF THE FARMER - the siblings of the
narrator.They were accused of stealing the spirit of the
food w/c was prepared for the rich man’s children.
• RICH MAN - the neighbor of the narrator when they
moved to town.
• - He accused the family of the narrator of stealing
the spirit of the food w/c his servants prepared.
• JUDGE - the one who is incharge of the case filed by the
rich man.
• RICH MAN’S CHILDREN - described as thin,anaemic,
and pale.
• SERVANTS OF THE RICH MAN - the one’s who are
preparing food for the rich man’s family.
SETTING

• -The story was set several years after

1918, in a town.
• -The events occured in their neighborhood
,and the trial was held in a court in their
locality.
PLOT
• EXPOSITION
They moved into a town after getting their farm
destroyed by a flood.They moved near the
house of rich man,who doesn’t interact with his
neighbors much.
They always unintentionally smell the rich
aroma of those food their neighbor’s maids are
cooking.
RISING
The rich man was seen observing the family of
the farmer/farm owner, and he ordered his
servants to shut all windows and doors in their
house.However, this doesn’t stop the aroma
from going out of their house.
CLIMAX
When the day of trial arrived, the rich man
came,looking old and weak, and the rest of his
family, in the same bad situation he is in. The
trial starts with the judge asking the farmer
quetions regarding the complaint, and the
farmer cross-examined the children of the rich
man.Learning of their “logical” reasons, he then
proceeded to give them an equal payment for
what they stole.
FALLING
The farmer collected coins from his family,and
went to another room w/c is near the
courtroom. He shook the coins, w/c made an
audible sound, even from where the rich man
was.The farmer then confirms of the rich man
and his children herad the coins shaking, and
after they confirmed that they heard it,the
farmer then says that they are paid.
DENOUEMENT

The rich man fell to the floor, and the casewas

dismissed. The judge then went down to talk
with the farmer, and the judge, the farmer,his
family,and the spectators laughed hard.
CONFLICT

When the rich man files a case to the poor

man and his family,accusing them in
stealing their wealth’s spirits.
POINT OF VIEW

• First person
THEME

“The only way of life is to be a

good people”
SUMMARY
• The young narrator begins by describing his large family.
Though they are poor, they are full of mis-chief and
laughter.The children are all strong and healthy even
though they often go hungry. In cnotrast,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.Consequently,the
rich man brings a charge against the narrator’s family for
stealing the spirit of his family’s food.