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One of the things that I found interesting while reading through the novel is, Gumersindo decision on staying with his family at San Pedrito despite the instability of their conditions. In addition, his insisting at his last moments of life on Feliciano to promise not to tell Gualinto, his son, when he grows up about the earlier incidents that’s for he didn’t want hates find its way to his son’s heart. Gualinto encounter difficulties while his growing up as classism and racism. I think these are issues we still encounter at our present days.
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