Beaten Carlos Bulosan

country!” (Bulosan 203). Obviously this upset Carlos as he picked up a telephone receiver and hit her in the face, causing something to fall out of her mouth (Bulosan 203). After his capture and beating by five drunken white men in California, Carlos stumbled into a young white woman’s house seeking safety (Bulosan 209). She was startled at first, but then opened up her home and heart to poor, beaten Carlos (Bulosan 209). He thought to himself, “What was the matter with this land? Just a moment ago I was being beaten by white men. But here was another white person, a woman, giving me food and a place to rest. And her warmth!” (Bulosan 209-210). What began was a friendship that culminated in the woman giving Carlos a large chunk of money to go to college, and her untimely death …show more content…
This made him known to writers of his day, and one of these writers became one of his closest friends, a white woman, Alice Odell (Bulosan 229). Carlos described her as a person who, “had warmth and a genius for arousing warmth.” (Bulosan 229). They shared their stories and found that they had somewhat similar, poor backgrounds (Bulosan 230-231). For Carlos, this friendship with an educated academic white woman would help expand his thirst for literature and writing. Of course, Carlos could not go too long without experiencing some form of racism and discrimination. While he was recovering from Tuberculosis in the hospital, Carlos was expanding his mind through literature. When it was time for him to leave the hospital for a sanitarium, he petitioned the Social Services Department (Bulosan 252-253). Instead of help, what he found was racism. One white woman told him that, “You Filipinos ought to be shipped back to your jungle homes!” (Bulosan 253). When he heard this he was devastated. He describes it as, “I was crushed. I wanted to be brave, but there was no hope.” (Bulosan