America Is in the Heart

by

Carlos Bulosan

Felix Razon Character Analysis

Felix is a young Filipino revolutionary whom Carlos first meets as a boy while harvesting in the rice fields. Felix appears with several members of the Colorum Party and urges the peasants to leave the rice fields and resist the plantation owners. Years later, Carlos again encounters Felix in America, where he forms a socialist literary magazine with José and Nick. Felix also becomes active in the union movement to organize Filipino workers is America, and he eventually travels to Spain to fight Franco’s fascist army. Carlos never finds out what happens to Felix.
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Felix Razon Character Timeline in America Is in the Heart

The timeline below shows where the character Felix Razon appears in America Is in the Heart. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 8
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...season and “strange men” are showing up in the rice fields. One of them is Felix Razon, a peasant boy who urges revolution among the farmers and tells them to abandon... (full context)
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Felix again returns to the rice field and urges the peasants to sell their shares of... (full context)
Chapter 25
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...finds that his brother Macario and José’s brother Nick have started a literary magazine with Felix Razon, the former Filipino peasant boy whom Carlos met in the rice fields years ago. (full context)
Chapter 26
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...New Tide magazine, but the magazine soon folds despite a valiant effort from Nick and Felix to save it. (full context)
Chapter 28
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...meet in the home of a San Francisco reporter, Millar, to map out a plan. Felix goes to the Imperial Valley to promote the labor cause, while Nick and Macario work... (full context)
Chapter 32
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...proletarian novel with a Filipino protagonist, and Carlos gives her advice on the character. Soon, Felix visits to tell Carlos he is going to Spain to fight the fascist regime of... (full context)
Chapter 35
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...tells Carlos that he and Nick could not get visas to go to Spain, but Felix did get there and is fighting valiantly. Carlos also learns that Nick and José have... (full context)