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    The short story "The Tomato Game" by N.V.M. Gonzales is about reminiscing his experiences helping with the tomato harvest in Sacramento Valley as a boy. He talks with the old man, his grandfather, who wanted to be a lawyer but was unsuited for it. Instead, the old man's grandson Sopi became a lawyer. The story contrasts the old method of manual tomato harvesting with the newer mechanized harvesting machines. It conveys the moral lesson that technology can never fully replace human labor.

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    The Tomato Game

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    The short story "The Tomato Game" by N.V.M. Gonzales is about reminiscing his experiences helping with the tomato harvest in Sacramento Valley as a boy. He talks with the old man, his grandfather, who wanted to be a lawyer but was unsuited for it. Instead, the old man's grandson Sopi became a lawyer. The story contrasts the old method of manual tomato harvesting with the newer mechanized harvesting machines. It conveys the moral lesson that technology can never fully replace human labor.

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    The short story "The Tomato Game" by N.V.M. Gonzales is about reminiscing his experiences helping with the tomato harvest in Sacramento Valley as a boy. He talks with the old man, his grandfather, who wanted to be a lawyer but was unsuited for it. Instead, the old man's grandson Sopi became a lawyer. The story contrasts the old method of manual tomato harvesting with the newer mechanized harvesting machines. It conveys the moral lesson that technology can never fully replace human labor.

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    The Tomato Game

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    The short story "The Tomato Game" by N.V.M. Gonzales is about reminiscing his experiences helping with the tomato harvest in Sacramento Valley as a boy. He talks with the old man, his grandfather, who wanted to be a lawyer but was unsuited for it. Instead, the old man's grandson Sopi became a lawyer. The story contrasts the old method of manual tomato harvesting with the newer mechanized harvesting machines. It conveys the moral lesson that technology can never fully replace human labor.

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    TITLE: THE TOMATO GAME by N.V.M. Gonzales


    PLOT
    The short story The Tomato Game is about how NVM Gonzales
    reminisce his experiences in Sacramento Valley talking to the old man and
    Sopi. He then also puts an emphasis on how the use of machinery in
    harvesting tomatoes differ from harvesting with the use of manual labor.
    However, the old mans dream of becoming a lawyer wasnt able to be
    attained for he doesnt suit that profession. Hence, Sopi did.
    SETTING
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    CHARACTERS/CHARACTERIZATION
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    V.

    Summer
    America
    Sacramento valley
    Transpacifica University

    Old man Sopis grandfather


    Sopi lawyer
    Alice Sopis handiwork, a twenty-three year old woman
    Tony a young boy sent to school by the old man
    Greg Padua the one whom NVM Gonzales wrote the letter for

    SYMBOLISMS
    the signs were all over. The wooden bridge, the fork of the road,
    the large track all around us which earlier had been a tomato field, the rich
    crop as indicated by the harvesting machine to one side of the field, a
    menacing hulk. ... You can see how hard I try.

    VI.

    MORAL LESSON
    Technological advancements can never replace the mans power.

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