HOW MY BROTHER

LEON BROUGHT HOME

A WIFE
AUTHOR
- MANUEL ESTABILLA ARGUILLA
 AUTHOBIOGRAPHY
• MANUEL ARGUILLA (1911-1914) WAS AN
ILOCANO WHO WROTE N ENGLISH. HE WAS
BEST KNOWN FOR HIS SHORT STORY
“HOW MY BROTHER LEON BROUGHT
HOME A WIFE.” WHICH RECEIVED FIRST
PRICE IN THE COMMONWEALTH LITERARY
CONTEST N 1940.
• MOST OF HIS STORIES DEPICT LIFE IN BARRIO
NAGREBCAN, BAUANG, LA UNION, WHERE HE WAS
BORN IN 1911. HE EARNED HIS BACHELOR OF ARTS
IN EDUCATION IN 1933 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
PHILIPPINES. HE BECAME A MEMBER AND LATER
THE PRESENT OF THE UP WRITER’S CLUB AND
EDITOR OF THE LITERARY APPRENTICE. HE
MARRIED LYDIA VILLANUEVA, ANOTHER
TALENTED WRITER
• AND THEY LIVED IN ERMITA, MANILA.
ARGUILLA TAUGHT CREATIVE WRITING AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF MANILA AND WORK IN THE BUREAU OF
PUBLIC WELFARE AS MANAGING EDITOR OF THE
WELFARE ADVOCATE UNTIL 1943; AFTERWARDS, HE WAS
ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF CENSORS. HE SECRETLY
ESTABLISHED A GUERILLA INTELLIGENCE UNIT AGAINST
THE JAPANESE DURING WORLD WAR II. IN AUGUST 1944,
MANUEL ARGUILLA WAS CAPTURED AND EXECUTED BY
THE JAPANESE
 SUMMARY
• BALDO AND HIS OLDER BROTHER LEON WERE BOTH WAITING
FOR THEIR VISITOR RIDING A CARRATELA. WHEN BALDO AS HIS
OLDER BROTHER’S WIFE, WHO IS MARIA, HE WAS AMAZED BY
HER BEAUTY AS HE NARRATES THEIR JOURNEY TO THEIR HOME
N NAGREBCAN. MARIA WAS FELT A BIT ANXIOUS BECAUSE OF
MEETING LEON AND BALDO PARENTS FOR THE FIRST TIME, BUT
ALONG THEIR WAY HOME, SHE DISCOVERED THE DIFFERENCE
OF THE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE LIVED IN THE CITY WHERE SHE
MET AND FELL INLOVE WITH LEON.
 CHARACTERS
• LEON/NOEL – MARIA HUSBAND, OLDER BROTHER OF
BALDO
• MARIA – LEON’S WIFE
• BALDO – LEON’S YOUNGER BROTHER, ALSO THE
NARRATOR OF THIS STORY
• MOTHER AND FATHER OF LEON AND BALDO
• AURELIA – LEON AND BALDO’S YOUNGER SISTER
• LABANG – THE CARABAO
SETTINGS