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Twenty questions on Manuel Arguilla's "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife", read against the author's life, the period, the social world of the barrio, and the truths the story advances.
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Which fact about Manuel Arguilla's life best explains the exact barrio detail in the story?
Baldo tells the story in his own voice. Why should readers not treat Baldo as Manuel Arguilla himself?
Manuel Arguilla left a farming barrio to study and work in Manila. Which part of the story draws on that experience?
Manuel Arguilla wrote his fiction in English although Ilocano was the language of his home region. What made that choice usual for writers of his time?
The story is told by a boy who watches the new wife closely on the ride home. What does this viewpoint achieve?
The story first appeared in 1940. Which period of Philippine history was that?
Manuel Arguilla later organized a guerrilla intelligence unit and was killed by Japanese forces in 1944. Why does the war never appear in the story?
Labang, a bull, pulls the cart that carries the family home. What does this detail show about provincial life in the period?
Why would readers in 1940 see a city bride's move to a farming barrio as a serious change?
The family's life turns on land, a bull and the fields around the house. What does this reflect about the period?
The father has Baldo bring Leon and Maria home along the Waig, the dry riverbed, instead of the Camino Real. What does this reveal about power in the family?
Baldo drives the cart, waters the bull, and answers his father truthfully. What does this show about a child's place in the household?
The family wants to know whether Maria can live as a farmer's wife. Which expectation of women does this show?
Which social difference does the story keep in front of the reader from beginning to end?
Maria calls her husband Noel, a name only she uses. What does this private name suggest?
The household waits at home while Leon brings his wife in from the road. Which custom is at work?
Which general truth does the story most clearly advance?
Which situation best matches the truth the story advances?
Some readers expect the barrio family to reject Maria because she comes from the city. Does the story support that expectation?
The father judges Maria by how she behaves on the way home, not by where she was born. Which universal truth does this advance?
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