I have to say when reading this I felt the passion and situations Carlos Bulosan went through. I love when writers can make you feel like your in story. I also connected with story because at a very young age my mother had passed as well. When that happens you later grow up trying to understand life and death. Unfortunately in Bulosan case he was surrounded by more deaths in such a short period that anyone should bear. As he describes each death of the people he encountered you can almost picture them interacting and what effect they had on him. The two deaths he encountered that he describes in great detail are of Crispin and Leroy.
When describing Crispin death it is clear that there was a emotional connection. He describes him as if a person would describe a lover or a friend. As he wakes up the next morning and realizes Crispin has died he says "Men like Crispin who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living." That passage to me shows how he felt Crispin was kind of like the light that shown through his darkness. Even though he did not know him that long he brought him hope and made an impact on him which made his death a significant one.
Leroy's death brings the whole story to a turn around. Being that Leroy was of the last death he describes it is also one of the most violent. Leroy's death reminded him of his homeland in which he saw his father violenting kill a carabao. It was a vicious death which was the same as Leroy's because these men showed little to no mercy on him. This made him see that even through he was trying to escape his homeland some of the same things he saw there were also everywhere else as well.
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