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** Also to ''Walang Sugat'', a revolutionary and anticolonialist play by Santos' contemporary Severino Reyes (you may know him better as children's storyteller "Lola Basyang"), which the Americans censored for "subversive/seditious content".
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* GratuitousEnglishGratuitousEnglish: One of the things Felipe plans to study as opposed to Commerce is English, which could be a stepping-stone to teaching, especially since English is the new medium of instruction under American rule. He and Delfin throw around a bunch of mangled English phrases as proof of what they've picked up so far.
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* ShoutOut: To several Socialist or otherwise Leftist authors and philosophers for one: names like Kropotkin, Malatesta, Bakunin, etc. are sometimes rattled off in rapid-fire as among the works that Delfin and Felipe have read.
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* IHaveNoSon: Kapitan Loloy basically threatens to disown his son Felipe for deliberately trying to fail or give up the Commerce course his father expects him to finish. Don Ramon later disowns Meni when she and Delfin insist on marriage.
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* IHaveNoSon: Kapitan Loloy basically threatens to disown his son Felipe for deliberately trying to fail or give up the Commerce course his father expects him to finish.finish (but which Felipe himself, of course, chafes greatly at). Don Ramon later disowns Meni when she and Delfin insist on marriage.
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* IHaveNoSon: Kapitan Loloy basically threatens to disown his son Felipe for deliberately trying to fail or give up the Commerce course his father expects him to finish. Don Ramon later disowns Meni when she and Delfin insist on marriage.
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* PimpedOutDress: What rich women wear by default. In one chapter Felipe's sister Marcela goes back to school in finery and jewellery that, as the narrator pointedly, er, points out, could feed several poor families ''for an entire year'' or pay off her family's servants' debts many times over. Even Meni when she does marry Delfin has on a dress that, while ordinary and everyday for her, is still fancier than most anything the working classes could ever hope to wear, even to their most formal events.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Delfin and Meni get this treatment a lot, what with the inevitable clash in opinions between Delfin and Don Ramon, Meni's dad. One chapter even has them meeting secretly in a garden while Don Ramon has forbid them from seeing each other, and when writing one another they have to avoid Meni's family intercepting their letters.
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* LatinLand: Naturally, since the Spanish colonisers had been kicked out barely a decade prior. Rich families' houses and dress styles have strong Spanish influence, Spanish-Catholic names are still widespread amongst Filipinos, and many of the major cast, such as the Mirandas, directly have Spanish descent—sometimes from celibacy-breaking friars, as strongly implied with Don Filemon. Then of course, Manila and environs are tropical, too, like many other ex-Spanish colonies in the tropics—which also fell under U.S. imperialism around the same time, like Puerto Rico, Guam, and (more indirectly) Cuba, for starters.
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* MeetTheNewBoss: The U.S. colonisers just recently took over from the Spanish ones. Filipino independence barely got a squeak in between.
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* MeetTheNewBoss: The U.S. colonisers just recently took over from the Spanish ones. Filipino Philippine independence barely got a squeak in between.
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* MeetTheNewBoss: The U.S. colonisers just recently took over from the Spanish ones. Filipino independence barely got a squeak in between.
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* SmallTownTyrant: Kapitan Loloy, Felipe's father, mayor of a Laguna town south of Manila.
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* UptownGirl: Filomena "Meni" and Natalia "Talia" Miranda, daughters of capitalist Don Ramon; particularly the former who becomes girlfriend to working-class reporter Delfin.
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* UptownGirl: Filomena "Meni" and Natalia "Talia" Miranda, daughters of capitalist Don Ramon; particularly the former who becomes girlfriend to working-class reporter Delfin. Felipe's sister Marcela ("Sela") also counts.
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* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld: Why the United States is in the Philippines in the first place—this is its newest and biggest addition to its rapidly expanding overseas colonial empire.
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* EagleLand: Leaning, of course, towards Type 2, considering the Americans just waged war on the Filipino Revolutionaries under the pretext of "liberating" them from Spain, and are as of the novel's writing and setting, consolidating their own colonial occupation of the Philippines.
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* FictionalDocument: Reproduces several in-universe letters, like those between Meni and Delfin, to name a few. Also the newspaper ''Bagong Araw'' ("New Day").
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* CatholicSchoolgirlsRule: They don't dress like the (slutty) Western stereotype, but many of the named girls going to school here go to an elite, private, Catholic college—La Concordia in Paco, Manila, run by nuns. Justified since this is, after all, a Catholic-majority American colony just recently freed from 300+ years of Spanish-Catholic rule.
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* CatholicSchoolgirlsRule: They don't dress like the (slutty) (slutty, modern) Western stereotype, but many of the named girls going to school here go to an elite, private, Catholic college—La Concordia in Paco, Manila, run by nuns. Justified since this is, after all, a Catholic-majority American colony just recently freed from 300+ years of Spanish-Catholic rule.
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: For the most part, given this was set barely half a decade after the overthrow of 300 years' worth of Spanish-Catholic colonial rule. It's most obviously seen in elite girls like Meni and Marcela going to elite, Catholic, nun-run, private girls' schools like La Concordia, as well as in lavish weddings like that of Talia and Honorio Madlang-layon, but even among the masses it's seen in invocations to Jesus, Mary and Catholic saints to help Tentay's ailing father hang on (though this last probably falls more into the classification of ''folk Catholicism'', i.e. Catholicism influenced by older, precolonial beliefs and traditions).
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* MultiethnicName: This being the Philippines, many characters here have combinations of Spanish and Tagalog (or other Philippine language) names; see for instance Atty. Honorio Madlang-layon—first name Spanish, last name ''very'' Tagalog.Tagalog (not to mention his nickname, "Yoyong", is also a typically-Filipino diminutive of "Honorio").
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* InterClassRomance: Working-class Delfin loves UptownGirl Meni, daughter of landlord-capitalist Don Ramon Miranda. In reverse, Felipe, son of Don Ramon's just-as-rich business partner Don Filemon, loves poor Tentay.
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* InterClassRomance: Working-class Delfin loves UptownGirl Meni, daughter of landlord-capitalist Don Ramon Miranda. In reverse, Felipe, son of Don Ramon's just-as-rich business partner Don Filemon, town chief Kapitan Loloy and brother of Catholic schoolgirl Marcela with her exorbitant jewellery, loves poor Tentay.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: Typical Tagalog editions can run to 600 pages, especially including the handful of original illustrations of certain scenes.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: Typical Tagalog editions can run to 600 pages, especially including the handful of original illustrations of certain scenes. Even Remoto's English translation runs over 370 pages long.
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* CatholicSchoolgirlsRule: They don't dress like the (slutty) Western stereotype, but many of the named girls going to school here go to an elite, private, Catholic college—La Concordia, Concordia in Paco, Manila, run by nuns. Justified since this is, after all, a Catholic-majority American colony just recently freed from 300+ years of Spanish-Catholic rule.
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* CatholicSchoolgirlsRule: They don't dress like the (slutty) Western stereotype, but most many of the named girls going to school here go to a an elite, private, Catholic college—La Concordia, run by nuns. Justified since this is, after all, a Catholic-majority American colony just recently freed from 300+ years of Spanish-Catholic rule.
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* MixedAncestry: The Mirandas have Spanish ancestry in their otherwise native-Filipino blood. Likely so does Don Filemon (and therefore his children, Felipe and Marcela), whose mother was rumoured to have dated a Spanish friar who then lavished a great fortune on her son who quite closely resembled him.
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* MixedAncestry: The Mirandas have Spanish ancestry in their otherwise native-Filipino blood. Likely so does Don Filemon (and therefore his children, Felipe and Marcela), Filemon, whose mother was rumoured to have dated a Spanish friar who then lavished a great fortune on her son who quite closely resembled him.
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* FilibusterFreefall: Played with; readers who were focusing on the love story aspects of this novel may think this since the ideological speeches and debates can run on for several pages. Delfin, for instance, gets into lengthy and heated debate with oligarchs Don Ramon and Don Filemon, as early as the first setting—''on vacation'' in the Antipolo springs resort. Then again, it's not like Santos had set out to write something apolitical.
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* FilibusterFreefall: Played with; readers who were focusing on the love story aspects of this novel may think this since the ideological speeches and debates in between them can run on for several pages. Delfin, for instance, gets into lengthy and heated debate with oligarchs Don Ramon and Don Filemon, as early as the first setting—''on vacation'' in the Antipolo springs resort. Then again, it's not like Santos had set out to write something apolitical.
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* RedScare: A very early version of this, a decade before UsefulNotes/TheRussianRevolution and long before the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, is naturally espoused by the landed and capitalist classes, including Delfin's and Felipe's own families.
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* RedScare: A very early version of this, a decade before UsefulNotes/TheRussianRevolution and long before the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, is naturally espoused by the landed and capitalist classes, including Delfin's Meni's and Felipe's own families.
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* FilibusterFreefall: Ideological Played with; readers who were focusing on the love story aspects of this novel may think this since the ideological speeches and debates can run on for several pages. Delfin, for instance, gets into lengthy and heated debate with oligarchs Don Ramon and Don Filemon, as early as the first setting—''on vacation'' in the Antipolo springs resort. Then again, it's not like Santos had set out to write something apolitical.
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* InterClassRomance: Working-class Delfin loves UptownGirl Meni, daughter of landlord-capitalist Don Ramon Miranda.
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* OfficialCouple: Delfin and Meni. Their love letters to one another even take up whole chapters of the novel.
