Scents of Apples

Bienvenido
N. Santos
was a Filipino-American
 fiction, poetry and
nonfiction writer. He was
born and raised in Tondo, 
Manila. His family roots are
originally from Lubao
, Pampanga, Philippines.
He lived in the United
States for many years where
he is widely credited as a
pioneering Asian-
American writer.
Difficult Concepts
Understanding the following concepts/ sayings
1. What is monkey business?
2. What is the meaning of the word platitudinous?

Insights Gained
3. I realized that we need to be kind and thankful for
everyone.
4. Love your family because they wouldn't be their all the
time.

Questions for Discussion

5. What does scent of apples symbolizes the story?
6. What is the point of view of this story?
Difficult Concepts
Understanding the following concepts/ sayings
1. “Monkey bussiness”
2. “Pempered brat”

Insights Gained
1. I realized that everyone is unique
2. Scent of apple reminds us of the struggles filipinos
experience

Questions for Discussion

3. What is the lesson of the story
4. Why he wrote the Scent of apple
 Difficult Concepts
Understanding the following concepts/saying
1. “Autumn’s a lovely season” what is autumn?
2. What is platitudinous?

 Insight Gained
3. “Always put your feet in the ground”
4. Be thankful always to what we have.
 
Question for discussion
5. In your own opinion what the story all about?
6. Do you think that the author is the one who experience the
story?
Difficult Concept
Understanding the following concepts/ saying
1. I could only speak about vagueness.
2. I did not want to tell a lie yet I did not want to say anything that would
seem platitudinous, insincere.
 
Insights Gained
 1. I have realized that our parents work abroad to make our lives good and
better and to improve our education so that we can graduate from school
and achieve our dream that we want.
2. If we have parents working abroad,please do not forget to cheer up our
parents, don’t forget to ask how he/she is and don't forget to tell what
happened to us this is for to avoid stress and make them happy

Questions for discussion

1. If you have a parent who works abroad how do you feel your love even
though you are far from each other?
2. Why are so many Filipinos working abroad?
Difficult Concepts
 1.I’ve seen no Filipino for so many years now
2.It was not hard talking about our own people

 Insight gained
1.Memories will never fade
2.People should be grateful for any job they can get
 
Question for Discussion
1.Who left the Philippines more than 20 years ago and have
never been back?
2.What they said to the woman twenty years ago?
Difficult Concepts
Understanding the following concepts/ sayings
1.What is the meaning of interminable
2.Meaning of “sentimental investment”

Insights Gained
1. I’ve realized that people who go to other countries especially Filipinos
are setting aside their comfort zone and happiness just to make a better
life.
2.Knowing that you are not alone, that there is at least one person who
can understand you, you can face and overcome any problem.

Questions for Discussion

1.What is the theme of the Scents of Apple?
2. Do you understand what is the author trying to convey to the
readers? How?
Difficult Concepts
Understanding the following concepts/sayings
1.“vagueness”
 2. ”little nostalgia”
 
Insights Gained
  1.I realize that there are three identified symbolic meaning of the
title “the scents of apple”
2. The story is all about the low paying type of jobs that Filipinos had
to take when they came to America.

Questions for Discussion

1. What is the meaning of the title?
2. Who is Fabia?
 
 
Different Concepts
1.It was not hard talking about our own people. I knew them well and I loved
them. And they seemed so far away during those terrible years that I must
have spoken of them with a little fervor, a little nostalgia.
2.Earlier that night I had addressed a college crowd mostly women. It
appeared they wanted me to talk about my country, they wanted me to tell
them things about it because my country had become a lost country.

Insights Gained
1.After reading the story, I realized that never forget where you came from.
Bear in mind that the country you leave is the country where you should live.
2.After reading the selection I realized that many Filipinos have become
immigrants to the other country.

Questions for Discussion

1.For you what the writer wants to convey to the reader?
2.What does scent of apples symbolizes in story?
 
Difficult Concepts
1. What is the meaning of the word platitudinous?
 2.The trip seemed interminable
 
Insight Gained
 1.People who are far away from home feel for their homes
 2.I realized that this book has a two primary characters, the
writer and the farmer.
 
Questions for Discussion
1. What is the conflict of the story scent of apples?
2. Who is the narrator of scent of apples?
Difficult Concepts
Understanding the following concepts/saying
1.”The trip seemed interminable”
2. What is the meaning of worldlessly?
 
Insights Gained
1.It’s not easy to compare
2.I realized that theres so many filipino that cant go home they been
missing there fellow filipinos.
 
Question for dicscussion
1.Where all the scent of apples came from?
2.Why does the author titled it scent of apples?