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Name: Karen Ann F. Yap Literature
Course & Section: BSP 201A October 7, 2010
The Different Customs and Moral Principles of the Filipino Nation
Reading books has many benefits both mentally and morally. Firstly, your mind will be active and engaged into old age, and reading can help you forget the problems in your life, and get you captivated by the adventures of someone else or by the author itself. Reading is a fun and great way to leave the stresses of your life and just unwind. Through reading it can also improve one’s skill and strategy use, builds fluency, enlarges vocabulary, and builds knowledge of the world.
And so we are given a task to read Filipino fiction books. There is a range of choice of books that were given to us and I choose the book of F. Sionil Jose, entitled Tree. Francisco Sionil Jose or simply known as F. Sionil Jose, he is one of the most prominent authors of literary books in the Philippines; he created a lot of books that tackled the different issues such as domination, deliverance, compassion, social prejudice and so on. F. Sionil Jose has been called a Philippine national treasure too. He was born on December 3, 1924 in Rosales, Philippines. He was introduced to literature in public school and later at the University of Santo Tomas. While working as a journalist in Manila, he began his interest in writing short stories and eventually novels. One of the books that he created which is known as the Rosales novels that earned several awards like the 1980 Ramon Magsaysay Award, 2001 National Artist Award for Literature and the 2004 Pablo Neruda Centennial Award is the book entitled Tree. According to Sionil Jose, as stated at the back of his book, “Tree is a story of a boy growing up in a small Ilokano town, surrounded by friends below his social class, by relatives and doting servants who have served his family all their lives. It is also a story of oppression and compassion”(Jose, F.S., 1978). Tree is one of his few

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