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A pregnant lady and her children escaping the Philippines to America during a war

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How his (the author's) mother left her home in Philippines because of the tragic events happening, in order to immigrate to the U.S. to become a nurse and make a better life for herself and her future family.

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I didn’t really have a large emotional reaction to the poem but it seemed rather soothing when he was reciting it

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The poem makes me reflect on the stories of my family members coming to America, the conditions they were escaping, who they married, and the better lives they sought when deciding to make the journey.

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I'm not sure why, but the way he read it, and the voice in my head was very distant. I can only describe it as nostalgic.

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His mother is tied to Mango's because it reminds her of the trauma she experienced as an infant in the Philippines and although her family is heading towards America she refuses to forget.

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I really didn't have an emotional reaction to the poem.

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the author's mother finds mangoes meaningful to her because they relate to her past (victim of Japan's occupation of the Philippines), so she brings them with her to the United States

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being a mom in Japan during wartime.

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A family escaping war in their home country

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I felt like there is a mix of reflection and full of emotion (more sad than anything)

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I felt very sad and guilty while reading this. I felt sad because the story of running from what shouldn't even be happening is very heart wrenching. I felt guilty because I never had to go through that, and I will never know if I'm appreciating what I have enough because I just can't tell.

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I was getting a nostalgic sort of feeling from this at the start. I can’t relate personally, but it felt like the writer was recounting a memory. When Cabico then says his mother’s aunt and uncle were tied to a tree and stabbed, I then felt sad. It was like a good memory that also had a connection to a sad one.

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Boubacar Sall-The child is sharing his perspective on his mothers situation when escaping the phllipines

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Boubacar Sall-The child is sharing his perspective on his mothers situation when escaping the phllipines

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The literal comparison between Mangoes and children made me feel sympathetic with the mother because you can tell that there is a level of care towards the mother's children. It reminds me of my mother. But I also feel some sadness(?) because of the circumstances they are experiencing in the poem.

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The story of a mother leaving a war-torn country with the foods that remind her of home.

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I visualize moving to find a new home/ new life. The image of mangoes makes me think about the simple pleasures

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The author recounts how his mother left the Philippines, fleeing conflict, and her connection to mangoes as something that is reminiscent of her homeland.

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As the poem progresses I find myself imagining the actions described and associated with the words in the poem, I see it as a short movie playing out.

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When I left the Philippines, my grandmother gave us food to eat on the flight to the U.S. When we arrived in Japan for a layover, we had to hide all of our food in carry-on.

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The literal meaning of the poem is to emphasize on the symbol of the mangos to show their level of importance to the people in the poem.

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It feels rather somber. Like the narrator is remembering something from there childhood that they weren't aware of when they were little but when they look back on it it makes them and the reader feel rather disheartened.

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A family leaves their home because of a war and immigrates into the U.S.

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It made me feel more appreciative of my parents because they have their own battles that they go through, yet they are still there for us and doing everything in their power to make life better.

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it made me feel sad as it poems thoroughly shows the experience of immigration

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There's an emotional connection he ties to mangoes and fruit in general. And the way he describes it helps me understand the trauma from his past

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For the first half of the poem, I imagine what is describe to be happening in the poem and the actions that have occurred to the people and their location.

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I imagine a pregnant lady struggling to run through an airport with her kids while she's holding mangoes in her hands (to her stomach specifically)

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I see a very clear and dark story of immigration. One of the most vulnerable of beings having to do extra to do what should be the simplest thing ever. Survive. Life should not be treated as a luxury you have to work for. It should simply come and go naturally. The mother shouldn't have to shake and shiver while in that process.

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The mother struggling to hide the mangoes and the children huddled around her.

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leaving home to the us risking a lot

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While reading and listening to the poem, I felt as if those events were happening to me. The author did a great job analyzing the details of the events, which allowed me to out myself in the shoes of the speaker. I read the poem with a heavy heart. 

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While reading and listening to the poem, I felt as if those events were happening to me. The author did a great job analyzing the details of the events, which allowed me to out myself in the shoes of the speaker. I read the poem with a heavy heart. 

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This makes me think of my own parents who are immigrants from the Philippines. My mom didn't experience the same thing as the author, but she had her own hardships and brought her own mementos with her.

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I visualize a mother who enjoys mangos but somehow also makes a living out of it, she cares for her children and wants to bring that aspect(mangoes) of her native country to california

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I visualize someone looking back on their childhood. I see a journey of immigration.

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This poem makes me sad because it makes me think of my own family and other families I know of who have gone through similar experiences

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I visualize worry. It's a face of worry that you have when coming to a new place because you don't know what identity you will take on when you get there.

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I visualized a loving Filipino family in the US.

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I visualized a mother taking care of her children.

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I feel sympathetic and sad for the family.

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The speaker is a narrator. I understand how someone might think it is from Regie considering the use of "mother". But I feel like this is meant to allow the reader to become the narrator and understand what a family in exile has to go through to survive.

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I don't think the Cabico is especially sad or nostalgic in this poem. If anything, he's just telling his family's story as it is. There was a mention of trauma but, but he doesn't dwell on it, as he moves on to what happens next. The purpose is to illustrate his roots.

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I think the speaker is a narrator but the poem is not in any relation to things that may have happened to him. In this case, he is just telling a story based off of some things that have actually happened.

The mood that the speaker is in is calm and has a reflection sort of sense, meaning that they are reflecting on previous events to enlighten the meaning of the poem.
The purpose of the poem is to display trauma and indicate what symbols can relate to the importance of that trauma.

The story is an explanation of something that had happened in the past. Some people may feel connected to it, others may not.

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-The speaker is the author of the poem as these are his personal familial experiences
-The mood seems kind of somber but also a little nostalgic
-The purpose of this poem is just to share his family's experience with the events in the Philippines and immigration
-The story is one of immigration and separation (from home)

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i think the speaker is looking back at his past. the mood is of graceful. i think the purpose is to help the reader the meaning of the past.

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I am not sure who the speaker is or what they would be called but they are telling us the story in a passionate tone. As if they want the audience to relate to what is being told (understanding what's happening) by drilling in these images of fruit.

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I would say informative because I'm not sure who the speaker is but i think the purpose was to inform others on what this person went through with their family.

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The speaker seems to be in a somber mood as he looks back on this moment with clarity and seems to realize the true meaning of what was going on in his childhood

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There was previous mention of the speaker being nostalgic, which I think is a misconception. Nostalgia generally means that someone is looking back at a past event fondly. This poem is retrospective, but not nostalgic, especially considering some of the trauma mentioned within it.

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The speaker is anyone who can resonate with the story that is told. The mood seems to be semi-reminiscent  and a little somber. The story entails leaving home due to circumstances out of their control and starting a new with only their roots left to take.

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the mood seems grateful, like although he was apart of the story, it isn't completely his story. His story started growing up here.

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The speaker is a man of japanese decent, he's telling a story that belongs to
his family

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The speaker is the narrator. The mood is kind of giving flashbacks to memories. I think the purpose was to reminisce about the childhood.

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While the speaker is recounting their past, the poem seems less nostalgic than it is somber or even traumatic. The speaker is not nostalgic towards these memories as they represent a difficult and even scarring period of their life.

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It seems like he's telling the story but he's not fully present or he's disconnected from the events. By explaining all this he's showing the importance of the mango symbolism in his family

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I think the speaker is someone who is reminiscing on their past. I think the speaker is recognizing growth from past experiences.

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The speaker is one of mothers children. The speaker is remembering his past. I think the purpose was to show us how the events in the Philippines affected his family.

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The speaker isn’t just the author. It’s someone who’s had an experience like this. It does get somewhat specific about the characters, like his moms aunt and uncle. However, I think this was just supposed to represent a person who’s had to be in this kind of situation.
The mood is reflective and somber. He is remembering something that happened and going over what it was and how it affected him.

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The speaker is the author of the poem, and the way he reads is poem portrays a somber mood with an underlying sense of pride. His purpose is to tell a story about his heritage.

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I think the speaker is remembering a difficult time in his past.

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The speaker is the author of the poem and seems to just be someone reminiscing about the past

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The speaker is the grandson of the mother and i think he is in a mood of appreciation for his family's risks and sacrifices to tell another side of the story of immigration from war zones.

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The speaker is the narrator, who sounds somber and gentle in a way. He writes the poem to share experiences and kind of inform us in a way of immigration

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-A symbol is the mango because of the importance that it provides throughout the story to his family and how it represents their journey away from home
-The figurative language enhances the story as a whole

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As said previously, a symbol in the poem would be the mangos because they refer to the trauma that the family had went through. The speaker uses figurative language to describe different things in the poem and add more meaning to particular things. One example that I find interesting is when the sisters are compared to being "like shoji screens".

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The speaker uses detail, not to describe how these experiences made them feel, but to help the reader completely understand what was going on. From the sun "blazing" to the crucifix formed through walking. The mangoes are described as "forbidden fruit" which is one of the only descriptions that invoke a certain connotations, whereas the other mentions describe the mango as a physical object.

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I think the mangoes represent the family and the meaning is to show the trauma and what events the family went through.

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The details about the mangos are a way to make the story more personal. Obviously not everyone has a connection to mangos, but mangos represent back home. A feeling of comfort and familiarness. Bringing them to the US is a way of keeping that sense of comfort with them.

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The speaker is the narrator and he's reflecting on a difficult time in his past.

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The environment/ setting stands out in the poem, like the grove growing, which perhaps makes the audience feel as if they are in the setting themselves. Then there is the symbolism of the fruits, especially the mangoes, and while I personally think it stands for children/ family , it could also represent culture itemized into a fruit since the mother carefully packages it and takes it with her to wherever her destination may be.

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the author gives a lot of details one detail that stood out to me was him saying "first world eyes".

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The meaning could be that we often dont truly understand the complexities of life in childhood

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I feel like soup was somewhat symbolic. no matter where you are I feel like soup=home.

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The author uses a great deal of figurative language such as "the hammock of her shirt" and how they form a "crucifix" around his mother. This sort of language adds depth to the poem and helps to create an image in the reader's mind.

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The symbol if the mangos represents a plethora of different things for the mother, but mostly it is all she is trying to protect. This could be everything from her family to the life they are about to make for themselves in a new place.

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In the poem, the narrator mentions that they dodged the U.S. Customs with the forbidden fruit, which grants the idea of the mango probably being the forbidden fruit. Therefore, if they are immigrating to the U.S. with these mangoes, it probably represents a token from their past, and bringing it with them into their new life.

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In the story, the author's mother is immigrating to the U.S with a couple of mangos. The mangos represent a piece of their past.

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There is a strong connection between mangoes and motherhood in the poem. Mangoes come from a tree planted after a childbirth, and the mother carries the mango between her legs.

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The symbol of the poem is the mango itself representing how something originating from one region was forced to migrate due to circumstances out of its control.

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i think the mango represent his past and how only the core remains.

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Being specific with certain details, Some symbolic things could be the mangoes and how they are precious that could be the children or memories.

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Mangos represent the mothers past?

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The mangoes play a part in the poem for it related to the past and his origins as well as appears in the title but I didn’t think much of it besides it’s related to their heritage and just plays a part in his memories of the past.

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The US had a shortage of nurses (I think) and had to pull some from the Philippines, so it's possible that they fled--this was their in--because of this opportunity for a better life. Also mangoes a big export of the Philippines. there are a ton of mangoes that enter the US from the Philippines for sale, but these mangoes are sentimental.

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The US had a shortage of nurses (I think) and had to pull some from the Philippines, so it's possible that they fled--this was their in--because of this opportunity for a better life. Also mangoes a big export of the Philippines. there are a ton of mangoes that enter the US from the Philippines for sale, but these mangoes are sentimental.

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I was thinking the mango represented the mother's responsibilities in life and as her daughter eats it, the poem then goes on to describe how she had her own children

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The mangos represent the mother's family and responsibilities. That is what she is referencing whenever she talks about a mango.

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I feel bittersweet, similar to the mangos referenced in the poem. My heart breaks for them having to go through war. But, I am also relieved they have found some comfort in the taste of fallen mangos.