Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Generations

The story was quite startling in the way it narrated such dramatic events from such a detached, impersonal point of view. It portrayed the sad realities of Philippine society at the hands of foreign colonizers. The story focuses on the tribulations experienced by the different generations of their family and how they each coped with these.

I think this really does happen in Philippine society, but we just don't want to admit it, or we don't want to admit the full extent of it. Daughters selling themselves for their father's freedom, family members killing each other--you can't help but wonder just how messed up society must be. You see how colonization tears apart not only the country, but families as well.

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