#import "@preview/cram-snap:0.2.0": cram-snap, theader

#set page(
  paper: "a4",
  flipped: true,
  margin: 1cm,
)
#set text(font: "Arial", size: 11pt)

#show: cram-snap.with(title: [AS AM 5 Midterm])

#table(
  theader[America is in the Heart - Characters],
  [Carlos/Allos/Carl
    Bulosan],
  [Author/protagonist. 4 brothers. From Pangasinan province. Hometown Binalonan,
    leaves as teenager seeking new life in West Coast. Travels around country
    working low-paying labor, dabbles in crime. Meets up with brothers Amado and
    Macario and lives primarily with other immigrants.],
  [Amado],
  [Youngest of Carlos's four brothers. Spends childhood in Phillipines helping family on farm. Flees to Binalonan after argument with father over abusing water buffalo. Develops appreciation for value of education, provides Carlos with books, influences his brother's lifelong commitment to learning. Moves to America, enters underworld of crime with Alfredo. Opens successful restaurant and hotel.],
  [Macario],
  [
    Third oldest brother. Attends high school, only member of family to receive education beyond grade school. Father and mother sacrifice and work hard to send him to school. Serves as family's hope for better life, but doesn't make enough to buy back land. Goes to America, influences Carlos's intellectual development. Socialist tradition, labor union movement. Tells Bulosan American promise of equality for all is unfinished, ongoing process.
  ],
  [Luciano],
  [Second oldest brother. Honorably discharged from Phillipine Scouts at 20, diagnosed with TB. Returns home, influences Bulosan by showing him beauty is intrinsically valuable. Shows Carlos how to snare birds without harming them (find beauty amidst suffering despair). Teaches Carlos to appreciate beauty in more dire and depressing moments of his life. Becomes mayor of Binalonan. Dies of TB.],
  [Leon],
  [
    Oldest brother. Just returns from fighting in war. Lives traditional peasant lifestyle. Moves with wife to another part of Luzon. Teaches Carlos to appreciate Earth and all it offers, symbol of bittersweet nature of homecoming.
  ],
  [Father],
  [
    Filipino peasant farmer, name is not known. Relationship to the land is defining element of life as peasant. Pastoralism. Illiterate, but understands important role education plays in achieving a better life. Forced to sell land to pay for education, loss of land turns him into idle alcoholic, destitute.
  ]
)