![]() ![]() His name is derived from the Visayan nursery rhyme Tong Tong Tong Pakitong-kitong, which is about crabs. Tong also has a brother called Katang who planned to take revenge on him at the middle of the story. Tong is pinkish red and is the youngest in the pack of their crab family. He is engaged to a fish named Dalagang bukid. Tong is a small crab ( talanka) who went to look for a banana blossom (heart of a banana) in the forest to cure his sickly father, Haring Talangka (translates to King Crab in English). ![]() Tong - the main protagonist of the story.While he begins his journey he finds he and his friends also fight the evil animals in the forest.Īlamat ng Gubat is notable for its allegorical references to Philippine society. The story is about a little crab named "Tong" searching for a banana heart to cure his father from sickness. ![]() Bob Ong later came up with another book written as a straightforward narrative, MacArthur, but it is a very different work because it does not have Bob Ong's signature humorous tone. Among Bob Ong's works, it is notable for being the first one to be a self-contained straightforward narrative rather than a collection of anecdotes. Alamat ng Gubat ( Legend of the Forest) is the fourth book published in 2003 by Bob Ong, a Filipino contemporary author noted for using conversational Filipino to create humorous and reflective depictions of life as a Filipino. ![]()
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