Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Critique in Biag ni Lam-Ang



Critique in Biag ni Lam-Ang

The greatest Ilokano literary work written in Iloko is the Biag ni Lam-ang (the Life of Lam-Ang), an epic about the fantastic life and escapades of an Ilokano hero named Lam-ang.
The father of Lam-ang was brave, he went to mountains to punish an igorot but he frustrated then he was he was killed by an igorot. Lam-ang got that kind of bravery by his father because he looked for his father to mountain alone without any companion; he fought for justice of his father. I think that was the right thing to do to take revenge and I know that he had an extraordinary power which he can use it to fight. For me it is right to revenge because his father was killed and no matter what happened, and he loved his father very much.
They are characterized as being hardworking and frugal, and they engage primarily in farming and fishing. The Ilocano culture represents very simple, sometimes spartan day-to-day living, focusing mostly on work and productivity, spending only on necessities and not on so much on ostentatious material possessions. Ilocanos also exemplify a great degree of respect and humility in their everyday dealings, much similar to their Tagalog counterparts.

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