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Emile Luzan is a Filipino immigrant living in New York City and practicing as a therapist. Because he supports a controversial cause in the Philippines, Glimmer & Company has been hired to scrounge up information about him. Henry is assigned to learn more about Luzan by posing as one of his clients, and though Henry is normally good at sticking to his invented backstory, he finds himself unable to stop talking about his real life in his therapy sessions with Luzan. There’s a kindness and openness to Luzan that makes Henry want to be honest with him—there’s also the fact that Henry is still mourning the death of his son. Plus, he goes to Luzan while Lelia is abroad, so he’s lonely has a lot on his mind. Eventually, it becomes clear that Henry has lost sight of his assignment. He goes to Luzan for a final session and plans to tell him to be careful, wanting to say that Luzan should be cautious about traveling and when he’s around strangers. But when Henry steps out of Luzan’s office for a drink of water right before telling him this, he finds Jack and another colleague, who physically force him to leave the building. Shortly thereafter, Luzan dies in an alleged accident while traveling, and Henry gathers that he was killed for political reasons—perhaps by the very same people who hired Glimmer & Company to spy on him.
Emile Luzan Quotes in Native Speaker
The Native Speaker quotes below are all either spoken by Emile Luzan or refer to Emile Luzan . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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But I wasn’t to be found anywhere near corporate or industrial sites, then or ever. Rather, my work was entirely personal. I was always assigned to an individual, someone I didn’t know or care the first stitch for on a given day but who in a matter of weeks could be as bound up with me as a brother or sister or wife.
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Chapter 13
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I felt I should leave him a gift. Honor him with some fraction of the truth. He nodded and said he would wait. I had already decided that I was going to advise the doctor to be careful in his future dealings, that he should be wary of unfamiliar invitations, strange visitors to his home or office, as well as chance meetings with other Filipinos, especially when he vacationed or traveled. I was prepared to reveal whatever was required for him to take me seriously, which would have probably been significant given how tattered and desperate he thought I was.
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Emile Luzan Quotes in Native Speaker
The Native Speaker quotes below are all either spoken by Emile Luzan or refer to Emile Luzan . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 1
Quotes
But I wasn’t to be found anywhere near corporate or industrial sites, then or ever. Rather, my work was entirely personal. I was always assigned to an individual, someone I didn’t know or care the first stitch for on a given day but who in a matter of weeks could be as bound up with me as a brother or sister or wife.
Related Characters:
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Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 13
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I felt I should leave him a gift. Honor him with some fraction of the truth. He nodded and said he would wait. I had already decided that I was going to advise the doctor to be careful in his future dealings, that he should be wary of unfamiliar invitations, strange visitors to his home or office, as well as chance meetings with other Filipinos, especially when he vacationed or traveled. I was prepared to reveal whatever was required for him to take me seriously, which would have probably been significant given how tattered and desperate he thought I was.
