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A fellow patient in Carlos’s Los Angeles Hospital ward is being treated for tuberculosis. John is a poor boy from Arkansas who never learned how to write, but Carlos encourages him to rediscover America and seek an education. Years later, John learns to read and write, and sends Carlos a letter thanking him for the encouragement.
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John Custer Character Timeline in America Is in the Heart
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Chapter 35
After months in the hospital ward, Carlos befriends another patient named John Custer , a poor, illiterate boy from Arkansas who is also suffering from tuberculosis. At John’s...
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