GAGAMBA, the cripple, sells sweepstakes tickets the whole day at the entrance to Camarin, the Ermita restaurant. He sees them all—the big men, politicians, journalists, generals, landlords, and the handsome call-girls who have made Camarin famous. In mid-July 1990, a killer earthquake struck and entombed all the beautiful people dining at the Camarin. Gagamba could have easily gotten killed—but he survived the earthquake, as do two other lucky people who were buried in the rubble.
As told by the Philippines’ most widely translated author, this novel raises a fundamental question about life’s meaning and suggests at the same time the only rational answer.
This is a novel book about the people who survived to an earthquake. This was happened, on Sunday, July 15, 1990 at around one pm, and executed at about four minutes of apocalyptic turbulence in Central Luzon including Manila were submerged in the wave of panic. The epicenter was recorded as exceeding intensity 8 on the Richter scale.
ReplyDeleteThe author discuss the different characteristics of the person who was their inside the Camarin. Most of the people who die are rich and in the position, and some of them were jut want to earned money for their family. In that particular moment they just want to feel comfortable in spite with lots of their problems.
This story was really injustice. It is alright to happen for those who are sinners, not to the innocent people who just want earned money and trying their best to escape the poverty.
Many of the people who were there was a rich, a politician, in a position, and some of them are sinners, because of what they have done. For this kind of people, this earthquake or an apocalyptic turbulence was a good punishment to them. But the other people who die without anything on their mind but to earned and to give shelter for their family. This is really unjust.
ReplyDeleteAlways remember that we cannot control the nature. The only thing that we can do is to be Holy, keep away our self from temptation, sins and to take our self with care and consecrated to God by praying Him and doing His will.