An Analysis of 21st Philippine Century Literature entitled
The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata
By: Gina Apostol
Introduction
The prologue is about the point of view of Gina Apostol to the story of "The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata". We will discover that the story of revolution according to Raymundo Mata is the fragment of a very long revolution and of course the love of Jose Rizal for our Filipino people and it will stay forever in our hearts and in the next generation.
The revolution is about when the Spanish occupied the Philippines. For you, why did Noli Me Tangere have such a big impression on that story? Why did it leave such a huge Impression on you? If Noli Me Tangere did not exist, what do you think will happen on that days? Do you think that Filipino can survive on that days? Why oe why not?
Background
Authorial Information:
*The author Gina Lourdes Delgado Apostol was born on 1963.
*Philippines-born writer based on the United States and grew up in Tacloban.
*She graduated from the University of the Phillipine Diliman.
Book/s or Work/s
*The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata
*Gun Dealer's Daughter
*Insurrecto
The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata
It was a bolt a thunder bolt. A rain of bricks, a lightning zap.A pummeling of mountains, a heaving violent storm at seaa whiplash.A typhoon.An earthquake. The end of the world.And I was in ruins. It struck me dumb. It changed my life and the world was new when I wasdone. And when I raised myself from bed two days later, I thought: It’s only a novel. If I evermet him, what would my life be? I lay back in bed. But what a novel! And I cursed him, thewriter what was his namefor doing what I hadn’t done, for putting my worlds intowords before I even had the sense to know what the world was. That was his triumphhe’dlaid out a trail, and all we had to do is follow his wake. Even then, I already felt the bitterenvy, the acid retch of a latecomer artist, the one who will always be under the influence, bymere chronology always slightly suspect, a borrower, never lender be. After him, all Filipinos are tardy ingrates. What is the definition of art? Art is reproach to those whoreceive it. That was his curse upon all of us. I was weak, as if drugged. I realized: I hadn’teaten in two days. Then I got out of bed and boiled barako for me.
Later it was all the rage in the coffee shops, in the bazaars of Binondo. People did not evenhide it crowds of men, and not just students, not just boys, some women even, with their violent fans gesticulating in public, throwing up their hands, putting up fists in debate. Put your knuckle where your mouth is. We were loud, obstreperous, heedless. We were literarycritics. We were cantankerous: rude raving. And no matter which side you were, with thecrown or with the infidels, Spain or Spolarium, all of us, each one, seemed revitalized byspleen, hatched by the woods of long, venomous silence. And yes, suddenly the worldopened up to me, after the novel, to which before I had been blind.
Still I rushed into other debates, for instance with Benigno and Agapito, who had now moved into my rooms. Remembering Father Gaspar’s cryptic injunction“throw it away to someone else,” so that in this manner the book traveled rapidly in those dark days of its printing, now so nostalgically glorious, though then I had no clue that these were historicacts, the act of reading, or that the book would be such a collector’s item, or otherwise Iwould have wrapped it in parchment and sealed it for the highest bidder, what the hell, I only knew holding the book could very likely constitute a glorious crime in short, I lent it to Benigno.
Analysis in Literature
Readers Response:
We like the story for the fact that it is not the usual story plot we usually encountered with the other stories we read before. We was amazed on how the writer gave a flavor , a twist, and even though that it is difficult to understand, it is good at the point of it is not all about serious but there are part are funny and it is beautiful. We were reading this, maybe three to four times beacause of the fact that it is difficult to understand and also we watched it on YouTube to be totally understand what was the message of the story is.
Plot and Structure:
We remember the time when the Revolution in the year 1898 that is like the end of the world. He go to school and his professor give him a book/novel Noli Me Tangere. He likes the novel Noli Me Tangere and other people talked about this novel/book. When the passed few days little by little the people accepted it. And he was old he give the book Noli Me Tangere to his student and that is the end of the story.
Settings:
It took place during the year 1898, when the spain occupied the Philippines. When Jose Rizal wrote Noli Me Tangere and El filiusterismo, that is the time when Filipinos wake up and fight to the fact that we are being enslave and oppressed by the Spaniards. This book of revolution show us what was happen on that year and how was Filipino woke up to the truth.
Tone:
The tone of the Filipinos was scared, angry and happy .They were scare or afraid because of the fact that the spaniards occupied us on the time. They were angry beacause they read the novel Noli Me Tangere and they saw on how and how much the Spanish Oppressed and slave us. They were happy because of the novel Noli Me Tangere that was revealed on what it was happen during the last period of the revolution.
Character:
The brave man Raymuundo Mata is the protagonist.He paid attention to the historical and literary convention in a polyphonic whirlwind of voices.Available for the first time outside the Philippines. the character said what is art? For him art is said to be disgrace to its recipients and it is said to be curse all of us.In addition the characters has no changes to their actions,motivations and interaction because his belief is what he stands for and they believe in their beliefs as well as they showed their true Filipino identity.
Point of View
The first person point of view is being used because she express her emotion to that novel. She convey us on what she experienced about what she read in the novel Noli Me Tangere and the revolution in the year 1898 and she tell us what will the reaction of other people when they read that novel. The third person point of view is also used because sometimes other people have there different perspectives and beliefs about novel.
Theme:
The theme of the novel is that what was really happened during the period of revolution and how the revolution changed the spanish system.The story revolves around the revolution and the novel written by Jose Rizal Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo that changed the lives of the people because the Filipinos woke up because of this novel.The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata also weaves the complex tangle of Philippine history, literature, and languages.
Diction and Style:
Gina Apostol used formal words for her work ,The revulotion according to raymundo mata,because if you notice and look closely at the words that are placed,you will notj ust be able to understand and it will only depend on if you search to find out the meaning of those words.If ceremonial author would write this kind of story they might use informal word.So the readers can easily understand and be interested because today the modern generation has technologies that they gave more time instead of reading books.
Image and Symbol;
The Book of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo have similarities in terms of aim and purpose. Both aim to enlighten the Filipinos on what is happening in the country. They want the people to fight for their country and have the total freedom.
Contextual analysis
Using the Biographical and Sociocultural Context , it can be concluded that the story of "The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata" is all about the revolution that is written by Mrs. Gina Apostol graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman of the Philippines and earned a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University that's why she wrote the book revolution. The story of the revolution is for the whole country or the story covers a country, because this novel influenced the people of the philippines because they realized the truth, they learned to fight for their rights and defend them from oppressed spaniards.
Summary
The reolution according was between the Philippines and Spanish when Spaniards occupied us. It is the life of the people when there's a war. The Revolution According to Raymundo was chaotic and life was difficult especially when Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere was written because there where many obstacles in his writing that raflected life during the conquest of the spaniards in our country. What we learned from this literature is to find inspiration in something whether if it is difficult or easy to achieve success, never give up because we are not alone, unite and fight fot the right.
References
Below is the table of the reference where we get the story.
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There is no problem when a women is the leader
ReplyDelete- dianne excelle
There's actually no quandary when a woman is in charge.
ReplyDelete-jherdie villan