Lesson 1

• The homecoming is a story about two brothers whose personalities occupy the opposite ends of the spectrum.
• One brother is pessimistic, helplessly holds on to the remnants of the past
• The other brother is optimistic, welcoming change with open arms
• When two characters in literature present contrasting characteristics and values this is what we call Foil
• Paulino Lim Jr. wrote the story the Homecoming
• The older brother married a nurse who landed a hospital job in Newport Beach and later got him to emigrate to the United States.
• The older brother promised to take the California Bar Examination but he did not write about passing the bar or working in a law office, instead he wrote about his job in a newspaper office in Orange County.
• The younger brother stated that for a toyota and buick in his brother's garage, he'll keep his tamaraw jeep.
• The older brother arrived a day earlier than his two suitcases did. True
• The older brother from the flight from Tokyo to Manila sat between two pudgy Filipino nurses.
• The nurses came from two different flights, one from Chicago and the other from New York.
• The nurse from New York had six pieces of luggages
• The airline charges one hundred and seven dollars for each additional piece of luggage
• The older brother's flight was 18 hours long.
• A homecoming should be an occasion for rejoicing not stress
• The younger brother took his older sibling first in Quiapo and Escolta.
• For lunch the older brother wanted to go to a mami-and-siopao place where he used to eat when he was a student in Santo Tomas.
• Humidity described by the older brother is the moisture content in the air. its what makes your skin sticky. And thats what makes you uncomfortable not so much the heat
• After lunch the older brother wanted to visit a bookstore.
• The bookstore Azcarraga was the name of the bookstore the older brother used to go to
• The name of the bookstore his older brother used to go to has been renamed to Claro M. Recto
• More places that has changed names is the Dewey Boulevard now named Roxas
• Tradition is memory kept alive said the younger brother
• Nostalgia is frozen in time said the younger brother
• The younger brother job is an english highschool teacher
• The younger brother took his older brother to the National Bookstore near Far Easthern University
• The older brother brought novels by Santos, Tiempo and Sionil Jose
• The older brother bought essays by Constantino and San Juan
• The younger brother took his brother on a light rail train on Avenida towards the airport
• It was thirty minutes after the plan has landed before the passengers can grab their delayed luggages
• There was two exits, one for tourist and one for balikbayans
• once the older brother has his leather suitcase and other suitcase the younger brother saw him fending off 5 men
• A bigger and older man that approached the older brother said that the older brother will be taking his car, he asked for 150 pesos but reduced to 100 pesos
• True. The man dropped the suitcase in the open trunk of an unmarked white car with the engine running and someone behind the wheel.
• True. The older brother fought away the man breaking the sampaguita on his wrist then he and his younger brother ran away back into the terminal and into a legitimate taxi.
• The older brother asked the legitimate taxi to take them to Hilton an expensive hotel
• The older brother told his younger brother that he wants to go back to Los Angeles on the next available flight, wanting to visit their relatives in the province at some other time
• The older brother left in the morning. The younger brother thought that his older brother have remembered a forgotten incident.
• The younger brother hopes that his older brother would be free from his nostalgia and bring him closer to the reality of his homeland, to his country.
• Campaign speeches are those speeches that are being delivered to achieve a purpose, which sets the motion for the campaign as it is.