Tata Selo: A Misfortuned Man

       Tata Selo, a character from Rogelio Sikat’s story, was depicted as a poor and lowly farmer with a wounded and swollen forehead, weeping eyes, and mud-caked feet, wearing a faded gray sweater with a slit on the elbow and grasping the jail rails tightly as he watches flocks of people whispering, eyeing him as if he were a caged animal. Tata Selo murdered a man who ejects him to work on a land he owned. The same man who took advantage of his poverty, and the same man who smacks him across the head with a cane. And that man is Kabesang Tano. If you were tata Selo, would you do the same?      Tata Selo, a man who faced poverty and misfortunes in life. He was maltreated by the kabesa and was now caged. Even when he was caged, he still experienced abuse. Pity. The word that comes to our minds whenever we hear tata Selo’s story. Although it is clear to us that murder is a very serious crime, we can’t help but feel pity to the old man. We can’t help bu...