When I have read the book when I was in high school, at first I thought it was dull and boring. Like any other work of Liwayway Arceo, the novel is characterized by smooth narration, light emotional expression, and artistic use of language. Tinoy and Remy was the main characters of the story. The novel “Ang Mag-anak na Cruz” was about the life of a middle class family living in the contemporary. The plot was in perfect narrative, taking all the pieces together until it had ended in a pleasant cessation. When I have read the book, I have noticed that the characters were already introduced at the first chapters, together with how fate had made them intertwined. That part of the land of Canal dela Reina was really owned by the family of Caridad, who later thought of getting it back to erase the tragedy of the past and start up new. It is about the greedy Nyora Tentay who claims a property she didn’t own and how she reigned and stepped onto the powerless around her. “Canal dela Reina” is a creation that exposes the society’s hunger of power and money, and the oppression of unfortunate beneath it.
No wonder “Uhaw ang Tigang na Lupa” has left a mark to the history of Philippine literature that no other can ever wipe away. The emotions and sentiments were sincere and the language used was smooth. It is a novel, laid out with carefully and artistically concocted lines and dialogues that don’t only build up the plot as a narrative but unfold with the harmony of music. A masterpiece that illustrates a child’s longing for the warmth of her parents, and a wife’s yearning of her husband’s love like a thirsty dry land wishing for water or dew. The novel “Uhaw ang Tigang na Lupa” was Arceo’s first blockbuster in the world of prose. “Kung gabi ay hinahanap ko ang kaaliwang idinudulot ng isang amang nagsasalaysay ukol sa mga kapre at nuno at ukol sa magagandang ada at prinsesa, ng isang nagmamasid at nakangiting ina, ng isang pulutong ng nakikinig na magaganda at masasayang bata.” As to the influence, number and quality of her works, I think no female writer exceeds her genius. “Titser” is just one of the works of Arceo that had really shown her brilliance in writing.
The reality the novel expresses was just what makes it extremely admirable. She wasn’t the a usual central persona with idealistic traits, but she’s just like any other existing being with strengths and weaknesses, making me conceive that I am just reading a journal or anecdote of someone. But what struck me the most was the main character Amelita. I personally have read the book the plot was not that dynamic and sentiments weren’t that extreme. Even they are discriminated, especially by Amelita’s mother in the end they had proven the value of their chosen profession. Reyes, literary critic of Tagalog novels, calls Arceo “one of the best female fictionists of her generation, for her expert mining of emotions attending domestic and familial relationships.Liwayway Arceo’s “TITSER” is a Palanca awarded novel about the struggles of the couple Amelita and Mauro as they chose the course of being low-paid teachers despite of practicality. Through her column “Bagong Dugo,” which ran from 1959 to 1963 in Liwayway magazine, she also helped launch the careers of many young writers-among them Rogelio Sikat and Dominador Mirasol. Literary scholars will undoubtedly protest her modesty and point to the great strides she has made in the world of fiction.Īrceo went on to write hundreds of short stories (including the classic “Uhaw ang Tigang na Lupa”) over fifty novels, numerous essays and articles, dramas for radio and television (including what is arguably the first and longest-running radio soap opera, “Ilaw ng Tahanan”), and religious biographies. Though she conceded that it was not a masterpiece, she nevertheless wished to keep it because “nais naming ingatan at laging makita, ang aming unang hakbang sa larangan ng nobela.” (“I want to treasure and to always keep before me, my first step in the field of novel writing.”) She also said she wished to measure her progress against this “first step”-if indeed, she coyly added, she had made any progress at all. This was the typescript of her first novel, Titser (1952). When multi-awarded Liwayway Arceo decided to donate the typescripts of her novels to the University of the Philippine some years ago, she deliberately held on to one of them.
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