Scent of Apples is a short story written by Bienvenido Santos, was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry, and non-fiction non-fiction writer. And one of his notable works is the story Scent of Apples. Apples. Is about a man who longing for his native land. his story focuses on the real score of Filipino who cannot come back to the !hilippines because of poverty. It reflects the immigrant-character yearning to come back to his land. And when he sees a fellow Filipino, he was very delighted to introduce himself as well as his family to him. It is meant to show that not all Filipinos are lucky to go abroad and it is indeed possible the lives of Filipinos to be miserable and suffer from poverty even in abroad.. "ot all Filipinos go to abroad are lucky, we don#t know what is happens to us when we go to abroad, we don#t know if we can come back again in our country. $ike the situation of %r. Fabia in the story, %r. Fabia took him back to the hotel. &e offered to drop news to his family when he got back to the !hilippines but %r. Fabia refused, saying that they might have already forgotten him, because %r. Fabia didn#t come back to the !hilippines for a long time because of poverty.
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(e think think the words with which he wrote this sad story tells us how much he missed his country, the land that he had to leave. leave. It also showed us his great understanding for a friend who he had reali)ed, or maybe even wished, feels the same way he does.
he scent of apples, which we do not find here in the !hilippines, for him symboli)es the miles that stretch between him and his country. his scent, which was very common in the place where he was then, constantly brings brings heartbreak. It was a wave of tears that sweeps over him as he smells it, and his heart wants to to shout, *this land is not mine. I do not belong here.# &e had known how much the Americans, who had set out for war, missed this scent.
$ooking around what used to be a dream to him, as we would have were we given the chance, he reali)es instantly that this place, after all, does not belong to him.
(e have reali)ed how painful it is to part with your country. country. he land of your birth. (e have reali)ed that a thing so simple, such as a platter of apples, or a photograph ph otograph of a person only &eaven knows whose, can bring us back to where we really are. here is only one home where where in our heart dwells, there is only one place where we long to stay most, there is only one land where you can look around and smile a real smile and say what your heart would have you say. hat is home.
&ow lonely lonely could he have have been, the writer writer of this this sad story+ story+ &ow often often had he woken up to smell the the scent of apples and break drown drown to tears of longing to smell smell the scent of his country instead+ …How often does the lonely mind take such unpleasant detours,
away from the familiar winding lanes toward home for fear of this, the long lost youth, the remembered hurt?” he author said, said, only the the eile knows. he eile deprived to seek the recess of his heart and soul, deprived of the comfort the loving arms of the land of his people. he eilewhose every single breath forces forces him to smell the the scent of apples, whose every single step in a familiar familiar yet foreign land forces him him to feel pain. he eile who had known better days, who had gripped his heart so many times to make himself accept the fact that he is destined to smell that scent forever.
/es, truly, only the eile knows.
Are the people who went abroad become successful+ he mindset of the Filipinos focuses only on for the sake of their family family and for their best future. Some of them succeed but others are still still in the process of earning money without gaining success.
Nueva Ecija High School Cabanatuan City
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