By: Daniel-Jay Pascual
IP411: Ilokano Literature in Translation/English
I have chosen to dramatize the scene in which Lam-ang encounters the Igorot gathering and discovers that his father has been killed.
As Lam-ang approached the Igorot gathering, he observed as the ten feet tall giants with boils marking their elongated faces paced through the forest. The hairy beings roamed aimlessly through the thick vegetation occasionally greeting each other with a callous stare. In the distance, Lam-ang spots a group of five to seven Igorots gathered around a large pot stained in a reddish-black color. Lam-ang advanced a few strides and scrutinized the Igorots surrounding the pot. He noticed that they seemed to be feasting on the remains of a dead animal. Lam-ang repositioned himself underneath a dead hollow tree stump nearly five feet from the pot and could now hear the Igorots undertakings. The crunching sounds echoed in the stump and grew louder with each chomp of the Igorot jaws. Lam-ang finds a hole in the stump and is treated to a full view of the Igorot gathering. Through that hole he observed as one of the Igorots slurped a lengthy reddish-pink colored chord which looked to be the intestines of a bear. Lam-ang observed as another Igorot chewed on what seemed to be the heart and liver of a boar. The third observation Lam-ang made forced him to cringe in fear, a severed arm which belonged to a human. Lam-ang knew that this feast for the Igorots was provided by his father, Don Juan. In an unexpected turn of events, Lam-ang’s emotions were overwhelmed by feelings of revenge and anger. The tree stump he dwelled in burst into a million pieces and Lam-ang arose to be greeted by yet another horrid discovery. A face lay there in the pot which the Igorots had gathered. The head of his father had been claimed as the prized possession of this feast of the Igorots.
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