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Contents:
The Soul of the Great Bell
The Author Background
Elements of the story
Story Analysis
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Let me share my presentation about the story entitled "The Soul of the Great Bell"
Contents:
The Soul of the Great Bell
The Author Background
Elements of the story
Story Analysis
A powerpoint presentation about Afro-Asian Literature for the subject '21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World' in Senior High School (SHS)
This presentation is all about the ways in transcoding information from linear text to non-linear text. It is intended to be used for grade 7 or 8 students.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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2. There is a story in Philippine folklore about
a mango tree and a bamboo tree. Not being able
to agree as to which was the stronger of the
two, they called upon the wind to make the
decision.
The wind blew its hardest. The mango tree
stood fast. It would not yield. It knew it was
strong and sturdy. It would not sway. It was too
proud. It was too true to itself. But finally its
roots gave way, and it tumbled down.
3. The bamboo tree was wiser. It knew it was
not as robust as the mango tree. And so every
time the wind blew, it bent its head gracefully. It
made loud protests, but it let the wind have its
way. When finally the wind got tired of
blowing, the bamboo tree still stood in all its
beauty and grace.
The Filipino is like the bamboo tree. He
knows that he is not strong enough to withstand
the onslaughts of superior forces. And so he
yields. He bends his head gracefully with many
loud protests.
4.
5. And he has survived. The Spaniards came
and dominated him for more than three hundred
years. And when the Spaniards left, the Filipinos
still stood – only much richer in experience and
culture.
The Americans took the place of the
Spaniards. They used more subtle means of
winning over the Filipinos to their mode of living
and thinking. The Filipino embraced the
American way of life more readily than the
Spaniard’s vague promise of the hereafter.
6. Then the Japanese came like a storm, like a
plague of locusts, like a pestilence –
rude, relentless, cruel. The Filipino learned to bow
his head low, to “cooperate” with the Japanese in
their “holy mission of establishing the Co-
Prosperity Sphere.” The Filipino had only hate and
contempt for the Japanese, but he learned to
smile sweetly at them and to thank them
graciously for their “benevolence and
magnanimity.”
And now that the Americans have come back
and driven away the Japanese, those Filipinos
who profited most from cooperating with the
Japanese have been loudest in their protestations
of innocence. Everything is as if Japanese had
never been in the Philippines.
7. For the Filipino will welcome any kind of
life that the gods offer him. That is why he is
contented, happy and at peace. The sad plight
of other peoples of the world is not his. To
him, as to the ancient Oriental poet, the past is
already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision
but today, well-lived, makes every yesterday a
dream of happiness and every tomorrow a
vision of hope.
This may give you the idea that the Filipino
is a philosopher. Well, he is. He has not evolved a
body of philosophical doctrines. Much less has
he put them down into a book, like Kant, for
example, or Santayana or Confucius. But he
does have a philosophical outlook on life.
8. He has a saying that life is like a wheel.
Sometimes it is up, sometimes it is down. The
monsoon season comes, and he has to go under
cover. But then the sun comes out again. The
flowers bloom, and the birds sing in the trees.
You cut off the branches of a tree, and, while the
marks of the bolo are still upon it, it begins to
shoot forth new branches – branches that are
the promise of new color, new fragrance, new
life.
9. Everywhere about him is a lesson in
patience and forbearance that he does not have
to learn with difficulty. For the Filipino live in a
country on which the gods have lavished their
gifts aplenty. He does not have to worry about
tomorrow. Tomorrow will be only another day –
no winter of discontent. If he loses his
possessions, there is the land and there is the
sea, with all the riches that one can desire.
There is plenty to spare – for friends, for
neighbors, and for everyone else.
10. No wonder that the Filipino can afford to
laugh. For the Filipino is endowed with the
saving grace of humor. This humor is earthy as
befits one who has not indulged in deep
contemplation. But it has enabled the Filipino to
shrug his shoulders in times of adversity and
say to himself, “Bahala na.”
The Filipino has often been accused of
being indolent and of lacking in initiative. And he
has answered back that no one can help being
indolent and of lacking in initiative. And he has
answered back that no one can help being
indolent and lacking in initiative who lives under
the torrid sun which saps one’s vitality.
11. This seeming lack of vitality
is, however, only one of his means of survival.
He does not allow the world to be too much with
him. Like the bamboo tree, he lets the winds of
chance and circumstances blow all about him;
and he is unperturbed and serene.
The Filipino, in fact has a way of escaping
from the rigorous problems of life. Most of his
art is escapist in nature. His forefathers
wallowed in the moro-moro, the awit and the
corrido. They loved to identify themselves with
the gallant knights battling for the favors of fair
ladies or for the possession of a hallowed place.
And now he himself loves to be lost in the throes
of modern romance and adventure.
12. His gallantry toward women – especially comely
women – is a manifestation of his romantic turn of
mind. Consequently, in no other place in the
Orient are women so respected, so adulated, and
so pampered. For his women have enabled the
Filipino to look upon the vicissitudes of fortune as
the bamboo tree regards the angry blasts of the
blustering wind.
The Filipino is eminently suited to his romantic
role. He is slender and wiry. He is nimble and
graceful in his movements. His voice is soft, and
he has the gift of language. In what other place in
the world can you find people who can carry on a
fluent conversation in at least three languages?
13. This gift is another means by which the
Filipino has managed to survive. There is no
insurmountable barrier between him and any of
the people who have come to live with him –
Spanish, American, Japanese. The foreigners do
not have to learn his language. He easily
manages to master theirs.
Vently, the Filipino is like the bamboo tree.
In its grace, in its ability to adjust itself to the
peculiar and inexplicable whims of fate, the
bamboo tree is his expressive and symbolic
national tree. It will have to be, not the molave
nor the narra but the bamboo.