![]() What is Adela trying to tell Hero? What does it mean to be healed?Ħ. She asks Hero to think about whether Roni is “sira”-broken, damaged. On pages 363–64, Adela gently chastises Hero for not fully understanding what it means to heal. What effect does this have? Why do you think the author chooses not to translate some of this dialogue?ĥ. The author incorporates dialogue in Tagalog, Ilocano, and Pangasinan throughout the novel, often without translation. How does the novel’s prologue shape your reading of the rest of the novel?Ĥ. Though most of the novel is narrated in third person, it begins in the second person “you” perspective. ![]() ![]() The epigraph of the book is the quote from Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart: “I knew I could trust a gambler because I had been one of them.” Why do you think the author chose this particular quote as the epigraph?Ģ. ![]()
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