A Blog About the Story 'Tata Selo

    Tata Selo is a Filipino Literature written by Rogelio R. Sikat. It is a story about an old farmer that was imprisoned for killing the owner of his land that wants to fire him. He sold his land for his wife that sadly passed and he wanted to reclaim his land once more by earning enough money to buy his land back, however due to owner of the land already having enough farmers, he fired and kept hitting Tata Selo and in self defense he killed the owner.     This story describes the hardships faced by Filipinos during the set time period of the story. the story explored the struggles such as the exploitations of the land and the abuse of power by the more powerful citizens, such hardships are displayed beautifully and properly for many generations to understand how discriminated and abused the lesser powerful people, and such may still be occurring in modern times. Sikat showed injustice by describing the punishment and treatment given to Tata Selo which they gave hi...