paniard, and a common maid. Luis lived with his poor mother, grandfather and half-brother Victor, and was only summoned by his father when he became an adolescent, and then educated in the finest schools and traveled to other countries. So you see, he's unique because he knows what it's like to be poor and to be rich. He's no longer the one-sided rich man that we've all come to know and hate.
             Luis is also unique because he's actually fighting for the rights of the poor. He disagrees with his father who claims that the land he claimed from the original owners is really his, because it was his ancestors who got the name and deed to the land and that it was his family who took care of the land, and only the powerful deserve to get everything; rather, he believes that his father should give the tenants back their land.
             Another way he fights for the poor is his job in a newspaper. He is the editor there, and he writes poems and articles referring to the empowerment of the poor Filipinos.
             But despite everything he does, something still holds him back, something unknown even to him. When and his brother Vic talk in one chapter, the reader discoers that Luis, even if he does seem to fight for the poor, is not willing to give up all the land he will inherit from his father and give it back to the poor people of Rosales. Like his brother says, the only way to be able to help the poor is to give them some possessions of the rich. Is Luis wi
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