Part 2, Chapter 25 Summary

Pascual's condition worsens and his only desire is to return to the Philippines. Carlos solicits contributions from the Filipino camps. Before he dies, Pascual tells them, "'It is for the workers that we must write,' he said weakly. 'We must interpret their hopes as a people desiring the fullest fulfillment of their potentialities. We must be strong of voice, objective of criticism, protest and challenge. There is no other way to combat any attempts to suppress individual liberty..." (pg. 187) After his death, Lucille closes the house and moves the newspaper to San Francisco.

Carlos finds his brother Macario in Los Angeles living with Nick and running a literary magazine with Felix Razon. They decide they must help improve conditions for the Filipinos and fight for equality.

Part 2, Chapter 25 Analysis

Carlos and his circle have become social activists bordering on revolutionaries...