Lastly, psychological, since Datu Mantel drives people in fear and he rampages whenever he wants to. Perhaps marxism can also be used here since it shows the gap between what a datu can do to a simple police officer. You may apply a historical approach since the events here takes place in situation that did and are still happening. It also shows the conflict between two religion, such as Christianity and Islam and how people have been fighting over it, which is practically the main point of the story line. The culture seen in the story is also strong under a political and historical light, since it mentioned certain historical events like the Spaniards coming in Pikit, then moving onto the other city. The author’s works also contained deep perceptiveness seen through the portrayal of various different people - such as men fearing certain superstitions or people with all of their love and hates, ambitions and bitter memories. It’s a dark side of our reality how men have begun to live in fear out of this stereotype. He may have also wanted to show the Muslim stereotype of being terrorists, which is not only seen in the Philippines, but also with other countries due to the abundance of terrorist attacks done by other Muslims. Perhaps the reason why he wrote the Green Sanctuary was because he wanted to show how truly chaotic it’s really been down there, especially with forming rebel groups and all.
The diversity of their culture was enough to grant them an authority of their own known as the “Bangsamoro”, or practically known as, “Bansa ng mga Moro.” It was later known as the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao due to the rebels sufficing within the region.Īntonio Enriquez’s words has been described as Mindanao-centric, where there is often love, faithfulness and unfaithfulness, conflict and death in most of his stories. Unlike Luzon and Visayas, Mindanao is actually dominated by Muslims or Moros, thereby practically separating their culture apart from the latter two. Mindanao has always been the, say, example, the ‘black sheep’ of the three big islands family in the Philippines. He also joined a surveying company in Cotabato, where his experiences built the story we now know as “Surveyors of the Liguasan Marsh”, otherwise known as the excerpt, “The Green Sanctuary.” Later on, he tried to write for news or magazines.
Originally, he was supposed to study medicine in a university in Manila as per his parents’ wishes, but later on decided to return to Zamboanga without any college degree and continued his studies there. But what if your own home wasn’t exactly an ideal place of refuge anymore? The earth was supposed to be a sanctuary for us humans and creatures alike, but what’s going that makes it so different right now that people just describe life as ‘cruel’ or ‘unfair’?Īntonio Reyes Enriquez is an author of short stories and novels from Zamboanga City in Mindanao. A typical idea about that will be home itself. For people, it can be their homes or they can be like me, a sheltered individual who finds comfort in small groups or their beds surrounded by their favorite stuffs.Ī sanctuary is basically a place where you find comfort, away from harm or under protection. It can be whatever definition floats their boat - For certain plants, it can be the forest.
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When one hears of the word “sanctuary”, the first thing that pops into their head is a haven free from any sort of harm.
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