This might be my 2nd read of How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife but this is decidedly the first I’ve tried to digest the beauty of the prose as an experience in itself. However. unlike more fortunate literature fans who have their ain transcript of How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife ( And Other Narratives ) . I had to trust on Baul to give me a similar antic drive to Nagrebcan. Bauang. La Union.
Shame! Manuel Viloria says the aggregation was merely 20 pesos.
The narrative. like most of Arguilla’s prose. transpires in Barrio Nagrebcan in La Union. the place of birth of Manuel E. Arguilla himself. You’ll instantly recognize how the author loves his hometown by the graphic imagination and sensualness that he offers on the home base. From the forms and the sounds to flush the aroma of the air. Arguilla spares no item to turn out that beauty exists in Nagrebcan.
From the rubric. you can surmise what type of narrative this is and how it could develop as it goes along. Leon is really the large brother of the chief supporter. the wielder of the mysterious point-of-view. but his married woman takes to him every bit Noel as the latter mintage is presumptively a modern turn of Leon though evidently it is an inversion of the word. Baldo is the small brother and Maria. Baldo taking traditional names into head as he hears her name for the first clip. is the married woman whom Leon/Noel brought back place.
Maria is really metropolis bred and Leon/Noel and Baldo are blatantly townsfolk. There’s the civilization clang that serves to be the struggle. though merely between the male parent and the unmindful Maria. Since Leon/Noel brought Maria to Nagrebcan. it can be presumed that they’ll be remaining at that place. As a safeguard. unbeknownst to even Leon/Noel and Baldo. their male parent have asked the younger boy to make certain things out of the norm merely to see if the married woman can truly set to her new scene aˆ“ the barrio and the household.
Certain characters. with deepness. to observe are their sister Aurelia and the bull Labang.
What I like about the short narrative is Arguilla’s character development. They seem to merely start out of the text. giving the reader an feeling that they could hold been. and could really good be. existent people. Most authors frequently base their characters on existent life familiarities. Whether Arquilla went deeper or non. he still pulled it off and imposingly. if I may be so bold.
The stoping reflected Baldo’s attractive force to Maria or. to be more specific. to the impression of happening his ain married woman someday.
In its entireness. How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife focuses on the aforesaid civilization clang or the scene displacement when person from the barrio or the metropolis is transported to the other. The construct is clearly Filipino but basically planetary. Peoples outside of the Metro ( Manila. specifically ) want to go. and to a greater extent. live in the modernist capital because it is widely believed that they’ll find greater pleasances and successes at that place. In other words. it borders on a “grass is green” thought or in-migration issues.
Arguilla makes me desire to travel visit Nagrebcan and pass one dark at that place.
