America Is In The Heart By Carlos Bulosan Analysis

The novel America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan focuses on the inevitable realities of an immigrant experience into the United States. Bulosan invites the reader to experience the reality of an immigrant through an Asian- American perspective as they are faced with poverty. As Carlos seems to enter the Americas he finds himself facing racism and economic exploitation. Therefore, Bulosan describes the intense poverty of the Philippines that pushes Carlos, the protagonist to leave to America but at the same time questioning the America as the land of opportunities. Although Carlos leaves his land to enter the America’s for better opportunities, he finds himself in a world in which he has to face racism, economic exploitation and violence

Growing up Carlos and his family found themselves in economic pressures that not only lead him to flee into the America’s but also his brother, separating a whole family. As he immigrates into the America’s Carlos realizes that the land of opportunities has only left him with memories of poverty. But the poverty continues with him regardless of where he is leaving. The poverty that he had left his land for is something that could never be forgotten. As he states, “How could I forget one of the most significant events in my childhood? How could I have forgotten a tragedy that was to condition so much of my future life” (282). As Allos finds himself facing economic pressures, he surrounds himself in a world of gamblers. In the need of financial stability, he sought the world of gamblers once again as later his brother Macario was not able to support for him due to his illness. Poverty in this case has no age economically. As peasants, they are forced to work with what they have in order to survive. Economic pressures lead Allos to do the unexpected and later found himself in the need of stealing. The lack of financial stability forced Carlos to do what his brother did for him and his family, leaving Macario in