Thursday, July 31, 2008

BIAG NI LAM-ANG CRITICISMS

BIAG NI LAM-ANG

Biag ni Lam-ang is such a fictitious story inherent from Ilocos Region. A myth that widens and plays in the imagination of the readers and leaves moral lesson as well.

It is such a fanciful one casting of supernatural characters namely Lam-Ang, Ines Konoyan his wife, Namongan his mother, Don Juan Panganiban his dad, and some animals like a giant fish, rooster and dog are also involved in the magical story. It opens the curiosity of the readers that nothing’s impossible with literature if you only use your creative juices appropriately.

The story leaves a long-lasting expression of bravery, revenge, romance, magic, love for the family and even for friends. The author makes use of peculiar animals to adds up more flavor in the story and to have some twist he even make use of old tribes and imaginary characters as well.

Just like other mythology, which almost ends up in a happy-ending this one follows the rule of a fairy-tale that everybody lives happily ever after at the end of it. Yes, stereo-typical, but the difference of this with other magical story is, it is native’s masterpiece that we Filipinos should be proud of.

A short story packed with lots of moral lesson in the reality of life…Awesome!!!isn’t it?

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