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* MultiEthnicName: This being the Philippines, people can have full names with any combination of Spanish and local languages like Tagalog, Bisaya, and so on. A recurring example is of Spanish given names and indigenous family names (e.g. Mariano Bontulan, José Baluyot, Emilia Sikapat, etc.).
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* ThePhilosopher: Don Benito dispenses a lot of sage and sometimes prophetic advice to Mariano Bontulan. (He even looks the part with his white beard, glasses and old-school gentlemanly looks.)
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* ThePhilosopher: Don Benito dispenses a lot of sage and sometimes prophetic advice to Mariano Bontulan. (He even looks the part like a stereotypical wise man with his white beard, glasses and old-school gentlemanly looks.)
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* GratuitousEnglish: Naturally, with the Americans now in charge and disseminating their language in mass public schooling.
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* GratuitousEnglish: Naturally, with the Americans now in charge and disseminating their language in mass public schooling. Specifically, the American teacher and entrepreneur Edwin Moore and his family are a natural source of this.
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''La Oveja de Nathán'', in English "Nathan's Sheep", is a Spanish-language Filipino novel by Hispanophone author Antonio M. Abad. Written in TheRoaringTwenties, when the Philippines had emerged from 300+ years of Spanish colonial rule but was now under U.S. colonial rule, it was published in 1926, and won the Premio Zobel, a Philippine-wide competition for Hispanophone literature, in 1929. In 2013, a bilingual Spanish/English edition was released, translated by Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes.
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''La Oveja de Nathán'', in English "Nathan's Sheep", is a Spanish-language Filipino novel by Hispanophone author Antonio M. Abad. Written in TheRoaringTwenties, when the Philippines had emerged from 300+ years of Spanish colonial rule but was now under U.S. colonial rule, it was written from 1925–26, published in 1926, 1928, and won the Premio Zobel, a Philippine-wide competition for Hispanophone literature, in 1929. In 2013, a bilingual Spanish/English edition was released, translated by Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes.
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* ChristianityIsCatholicChristianityIsCatholic: One of the specific Catholic sects explored here is the veneration of Nuestra Señora de la Regla (Our Lady of Rule) in Opon town (today Lapu-lapu City), Cebu.
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* GayParee: Both Mariano Bontulan and Don Benito spend significant time in fin-de-siècle Paris, the latter to study, the former to celebrate the Allied victory in the Great War.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Not directly, but the title refers to the biblical Prophet Nathan, who was not afraid to speak truth to King David (specifically, in 2 Samuel 12, Nathan tells the parable of a sheep, cared for by his shepherd but coveted by a rich man).
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Not directly, but the title refers to the biblical Prophet Nathan, who was not afraid to speak truth to King David (specifically, David.
** AsTheGoodBookSays: Specifically, in 2 Samuel 12, Nathan tells the parable of a sheep, cared for by his shepherd but coveted by a richman).man. In this case, the sheep is likened to the Filipino nation/people, the shepherd to the Spanish colonisers, and the rich man to the American imperialists.
** AsTheGoodBookSays: Specifically, in 2 Samuel 12, Nathan tells the parable of a sheep, cared for by his shepherd but coveted by a rich
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* EvilColonialist: Played with, since Spain is largely painted as the benevolent, nurturing outside power, especially compared with the (then-current) American colonisers.
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* EvilColonialist: Played with, since Spain is Spain—the uncontested BigBad in most other Filipino historic and literary portrayals, whether helped by U.S. colonialism or heirs to the 1896 Revolution—is here largely painted as the benevolent, nurturing outside power, especially compared with the (then-current) American colonisers.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Many, many, named ones, from the 16th- and 17th-century Spanish conquistadores who're Don Benito's indirect ancestors, or friends and in-laws of them; to all the named American imperialists and Filipino elite politicians doing their negotiation dance in the decades leading up to the novel's present.
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* TropicalIslandAdventure: It's the Philippines, so.
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It is epic in length and scope, and centres largely around the life and adventures of young Mariano Bontulan, serving as a typesetter in the Philippine government printing office, under the direction of his elite boss, Don Benito Claudio de Hernán González.
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It is epic in length and scope, and centres largely around the life and adventures of young Mariano Bontulan, serving as a typesetter in the Philippine government printing office, under the direction of his elite boss, Don Benito Claudio de Hernán González.
González, who though a principal negotiator with the new American imperialists and cofounder of an early assimilationist political party under the U.S. regime, holds a deep suspicion for the new colonisers, and imparts his thinking to Bontulan over the course of the latter's employment. Meanwhile, Bontulan, hearing of the news of UsefulNotes/TheGreatWar, decides to sign up for the American side.
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* EagleLand: Don Benito sees largely a Type 2. Mariano Bontulan, young and largely growing up post-Philippine-American War, is more trusting of the Americans and sees principally a Type 1.
