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Tony commented that the dancers weren’t with himandthatheknewtheynever would’ve came homehiminthe firstplace. Fil then started to listen to his tape recorder and his failure from earlier that day no longer matteredtohimbecause hisrecordinghadbroughthima certain feelingandit just filledhim upwith different memoriesand emotions.
His short story "The Day The Dancers Came" portrays a man's struggle for belongingness in a place where he thought he would finally have a good life. It focuses on how Fil, a Filipino migrant in America, tries to be optimistic on his life in America despite events that show him otherwise.
"The Day the Dancers Came" is a 1955 short story [1] written by award-winning Filipino American author Bienvenido N. Santos. Set in 1950s Chicago, it is a classic work of the Filipino diaspora.
This classic of Filipino literature by Bienvenido Santos is about an aging expatriate who feels cut off from his culture. After years of menial work in the United States, the protagonist has no remaining Filipino family and only one local, possibly terminally ill, Filipino friend.
The main character in the story "The Day the Dancers Came" is an old man who lives in a run-down apartment with an old, cynical friend in New York City. The old man is full of hopes and...
Group 8 - The Day the Dancers Came - Free download as Powerpoint Presentation (.ppt / .pptx), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or view presentation slides online. The story is about a Filipino immigrant named Fil who lives in Chicago.
THE DAY THE DANCERS CAME. Selected Prose Works. By Bienvenido N. Santos. Manila: Bookaark, 1967. viii, 195 pp. This book takes itstitle from the leading story in the collection. The "8dancers" of the title are the Bayanihan or one of the other Filipino dance-groups that have toured the United States, performing their
