One of Macario’s hotel mates. He is a student who marries a divorced white woman who pays for him to attend college. One night, white detectives break into his home and beat him for marrying a white woman, and then they take him to jail. After he is released from jail he goes back to college and majors in languages and international law. He moves to the Philippines and participates in several anti-American campaigns.
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Alonzo Character Timeline in America Is in the Heart
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Chapter 17
...only hotel resident with a job. He dies in the middle of the next night. Alonzo is a college student, and Ben is a house worker in Beverly Hills who spends...
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Chapter 18
...one night, and the ugly scene sickens Carlos. Luz eventually dies in a gambling house. Alonzo meets a white divorcee who pays for him to attend college, but police arrest him...
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