The loving father
It is about a father who came across a Putat. When his carabao bump in to the putat he met Atong, an engkanto who gave the father an offer to make up the damages the carabao made. He had a choice whether to give away his daughter to Atong or something bad will happen to him. The father ended up fighting Atong instead of giving his daughter, he showed how much he loves his daughter.
In the story there are some local color
such as putat can be considered as object, collective of verdant trees that
surrounds a very pond-like body of water from Pinamungajan. Putat is an
engkanto’s home which is believed that no human should tamper with. The next
one can be identified as social customs. “Tabi! Tabi!”, it is a filipino
expression that when passing through a spirit and by tabi tabi it means excuse
me or may I pass. It can be identified as social customs and dialect. Engkanto are
mythical spirits and associated with the spirits of ancestors in the
Philippines. In additional an engkanto have the ability to appear in human
form. Lastly we have mannerism where the father decided to fight off Atong
instead of taking away his daughter, it’s clear that he is selfless and would
make a sacrifice for his daughter. That side of the father is a good
personality trait and is considered as mannerism in local color.
We can see that at the end of
the story, Mang Timo fought Atong instead of giving his daughter away. Seeing
that situation, I believe anyone or perhaps someone would do that when they
love someone. In my opinion, I would also do what Mang Timo did, just so that
the person we love can live freely, and that we can sacrifice for the ones we
love
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