Lesson 8: Green Sanctuary

Novel Zamboanga City

 A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing  Is called “Asian’s Latin City” because of its Spanish-tinged
character and action with some degree of realism Chavacano dialect
 Closer to home, this view makes perfect sense in the case of Rizal,  This musical language is a huge part of Zamboangeno culture
who chose the novel instead of any other genre in exposing the “ills”
of his nation. The novel already signals how what “surrounds” a Paragraph 1
literary text shapes it and calls in into being Pikit, Cotabato
 The novel excerpt in this lesson narrates a bleak story from  Is a first class municipality in the province of Cotabato
Mindanao  Was the oldest settlement ever founded in Cotabato province
 In this novel by the late Antonio Enriquez, the main character, The townsfolk said
Alberto Gonzales from Zamboanga City, joins a team of surveyors  That hundreds of years ago, a Spanish ship
installing triangulation towers in the Central Mindanao hinterlands. had dropped anchor in Pulanggi River,
His team faces resistance from the Maguindanao Muslims– the and while the awed Moros watched
“Moros” referred to the story– who consider their entry as  The Spanish soldiers came down her gangplank
instrusion into indigenous territory  The Spaniards did not stay long in Pikit because Alberto did not see
 The novel Green Sanctuary will bring back us to the hertland of a mestizo or mestiza in town since his arrival three months ago
Mindanao in a time when technology, along with rapid urbanism,
seriously threatened the “green sanctuary” of the Liguasan March. Paragraph 2
It will also show how resistance played an important role in  The commercial bus never stopped in Pikit
signifying culture and identity  Disgorged its passengers at the smallest village
 Refused to get off or asked for a fare refund
Vocabulary Paragraph 3
1. Moros - Any of several Muslim people of Mindanao, Palawan, the Sulu A bus never stopped in Pikit
Archipelago and other southern islands of the Philippines  Moros
2. Smithereens - Small piece  Marketgoers and store owners
A grenade blew him to smithereens.  Townsfolk
3. Dismantle - Take ( a machine or structure) to pieces  Only the skeleton of the bus was left
The engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap.  Naked Children
4. Carbine - A short-barreled lightweight firearm originally used by cavalry  Games
Troopers are armed with lance, sword and carbine. Paragraph 4
5. Caliber or calibre  An abandoned truck chassis
In guns, particularly firearms, caliber or calibre is the approximate  Found up along the road and just before the market place
internal diameter of the barrel, or the diameter of the projectile it  was covered with vines and climbers
fires, in hundredths or sometimes thousandths of an inch  Before the Cerdeza Surveying Company men came
 A bus
Mindanao  A datu from Matalam
 The second largest island of the country  The automatic carbine
 A place that holds many associations, owing to its complex history  A four year old child
up to the present day.  Mother
  Head, Scalp  Stood up from his wooden bench
Paragraph 5  Drew his 45-caliber gun
 Every six o’ clock every evening  Promptly perforated the picture seen
 No one walked there after this hours  “There” “You are now dead”
 Sari- sari stores and carinderias along the road  Everyone scampered for safety
 The policeman on beat  The movie house owner
 Uniform  Stopped showing such films again in Pikit
 Drank with his buddies  Only showed American war movies
 Datu Mantel  The fans of Fernando Poe Jr.
 Only the one who walked the main road  Demanded to see their movie idol
 45- caliber hand gun hanging low from his hip  The owner of the movie house said
Paragraph 6  They all knew that he was shot dead by Datu Mantel and
 One Night now lay buried in the hills of Pulanggi
 A drunkard lost his way home on the main street
 Datu Mantel shot him neatly between his eyes Antonio Reyes Enriquez
 Dunkard’s corpse was not found the next day  Born and raised at Zamboanga city , and educated at Jesuit School.
 The chief of the police did not send a policeman  Author of several books of short stories and novels.
 Because one evening (a week before the murder)  two-time winner of the Palanca Grand Prize
 The two of them were drinking in a bar  Won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Grand Prize for Literature for
 Datu Mantel slapped him across the face and challenged his third novel, “Subanons” and first won the grand prize in 1982 for
him to draw his gun his first novel, “Surveyors of the Liguasan Marsh”.
 The chief of police knew that with one hand he could draw  He is born at Zamboanga city which is the setting of his short stories
at the same time and novel.
 “Now I am the chief of police”
 Became unofficially the chief of police of Pikit without an
appointment of the governor
 The next day
 The townsfolk
 Khaki uniform of the police chief, although he never wore a
badge
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 No place to go in Pikit after nightfall
 Movie house
 Opened in the morning and closed in the afternoon
 Showed double-program war features
 One film
 Fernando Poe Jr.
 The Golden Boy of the action pictures
 Upon seeing the massacre on the picture
 Datu Mantel