John Christian R.

Macan
Grade 12 IT-2
Critique Paper

GOYO: THE BOY GENERAL

The Life of Gregorio ‘Goyo’ Del Pilar (Paulo Avelino) a youngest generals during the

Philippine- American war who fought in the Tirad pass. During the Philippine- American war,

Gregorio Del Pilar led them under President Emilio Aguinaldo and who trusted the most. The

film combines historical fact with fictional elements to serve a narrative theme. The American

soldier forces controlled the Manila, Tarlac, Neuva Eciji, and Pangasinan who under controlled

with Americans. The cinematography was delivered organized and the relevant to the real story,

the theme inside the film was really detailed with creativity and how the audience to convince

that the film was really happened and who fell during the battle for our freedom, our soldiers and

heroes who can risked their lives for our motherland.

Gregorio Del Pilar was tasked to led the Philippines revolutionary forces against to

Americans, they always chasing peace and freedom for our country and they can sacrifice their

own life and ready to die for the nation. The brigades and soldiers were gathered under the

General Goyo and the President to defend our country and they have a chance to fight back

against the enemy, we chasing the freedom and we fight for it but freedom become still difficult

to achieve. Soldier who died while fighting they left their home to fight for freedom and to save

their lives while the soldiers holding a rifle and they don’t know if they will die or stay alive and

they don’t know if they will return after the war. Chasing freedom and there’s no escape in war

instead of running away and surrender to them, Surrendering is not the way of getting a freedom

you need to fight for it and what is your fighting for. They need to fight, not just for their own

but they are fighting and sacrificing for their own life for the freedom of the motherland. I would
like to prove that we know how to fight with dignity and honor because there’s no more room for

doubting and we need to fight what we want and what we want to achieve. They accept whatever

fate in the name of this love to our country, love the country is one of the important thing need to

fight for.

Goyo is also known as “Agila”, he loved by many especially the ladies, and the people

look up to him. “You are the eagle” A rank of a soldier with a high position but position and rank

doesn’t define who you are as a soldier and general. Because sometimes Goyo chose to sleep

while fighting while his countrymen fell while fighting and President Emilio Aguinaldo

betraying them and running way from the battle, it is a sign that we’re not fighting for our

freedom but we are fighting for ourselves and dignity. In the first place, our real enemy is

ourselves stated by General Luna and after he was killed by President Aguinaldo and they are

right to call us children. Apolinario Mabini said “When a person of low rank has done a small

good deed, we can regard it as noble. But if this small good deed is all that a person of a higher

rank has done, it is negligence. The Revolution failed because it was badly led, instead of

supporting those who have genuinely served the country, Aguinaldo made them useless,” This

statement show that we’re not really fighting for our freedom because of the wrong person brings

us to death, we’re going to die if we always looking at our rank and position. But our death was

honored if we fight for our nation. According to Louise Ferrer (2018), there is a side of Goyo

that Filipinos do not know or have not seen. Underneath all his charm and success lies an internal

struggles, and it just goes to show that in every battle, even the strongest, most idolized heroes

are still human beings.

freedom. But we don’t achieve it if we don’t know how to fight a real freedom and never look at

the luxurious life we have. Goyo see himself flying above the sky, flying like an eagle, and eagle

whose never fall down. But General Goyo defined himself as an eagle without a wing and never

flies. But General Goyo was also noble hero, who died fighting against Americans. But the film

defines too many personalities of soldier and leader, a general who spent his time in war, and

died. A leader who teach them who to fight without strategies, a leader who gives orders to fight,

a leader who bring them from death, a leader who sit on chair and watching while his soldier

died at the battle, and a leader who has a honor by their countrymen but pledging to the

American flag.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Ferrer, L. (2018, September 8). An honest review of Goyo. Retrieved from

https://www.cosmo.ph.com

John Christian R. Macan

Cainta Rizal and colorful festival

When you hear SumBingTik festival it representing the colorful festival, SumBingTik

stands for Suman-Bibingka-Talik. They named their festival SumBingTik because sticky rice

cake the usually product and business of cainta, they’re famous with that, every year of 1 st

December the town festival anniversary and feast of Our lady of light the parton saint of the

town of cainta. The festival was first celebrated in 2014, when the day of the festival everything

you see in their houses was colorful and decorated with recycled materials inspired of colorful of

their products. Cainta Festival is also known as most beautiful festival because of decorating

their houses with creativity and passion for crafting with their famous and delicious sticky rice

cake, especially their suman and bibingka.

We all know that Cainta Rizal is really famous with sticky rice cake, home of makers in

sticky rice cake. Cainta Rizal is not rich with historical and traditions, they are known as a

simplicity and beauty of town compare to the other town with rich of history and traditions. But

SimBingkit is really catching name of festival they named it because of their own product and

passion of making sticky rice cake, it is the usually business of people there. Making their

famous product and passing it the next generation of their family, that is why their product are

still alive until now and giving a huge contribution to the town of Cainta. Their own product

introduced us to be passionate in making of sticky rice cake, it served with culture, tradition, and

rich of their product. It is the trademark of Cainta and SumBingtik festival that they are really

famous of delicious sticky rice cake and symbolized sticky relationship with family.
 Usually, all of the makers of sticky rice cake are not different taste. It is similar to each

other because they followed one recipe of sticky rice cakes. Suman, bibingka, biko, kalamay, and

latik and each of that are very similar taste even though they are too many maker of sticky rike

cake, to avoid the competency between their own products. When SumBingtik festival was

celebrated they are united to build a huge community with one passion and one objective and

that is why they called their own “One Cainta” people there. The event of SumBingTik festival

was very beautiful and rich of creativity and passion in making when they are celebrating their

feast day and spent their time and money in their festival. Since SumBingTik requires the

decoration for their houses and spending more time to do that but they will do it for the passion

and celebrating of SumBingtik Festival. When you see the decorated houses you will be amaze

with the beauty of creativity but in some ways, you will realize that every decoration and

materials are need to buy but some of the materials are recycled.

Overall, this event is really beautiful and full of passion in the SumBingTik Festival. It is

a festival need to talk about and something need to give a reason why you should visit and

experience this kind of festival, it showcases the tradition and passion in food especially for the

sticky rice cake and it is also develop a good relationship on the neighborhood. This event will is

worth to celebrate it signify the passion of making delicious delicacies and it is needed to witness

to the next generation of Cainta, this kind of festival would be something need to visit by other

people and to witness the beauty of this kind of event. We should visit this kind of event that

represent the creativity of Cainta citizens and to taste those kind of product in Cainta which they

are really famous and the place where these food are serve with passion and tradition.

Reference:

Pilipinas HD. (2017, November 28) SumBingTik Festival of Cainta. Retrieved from

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aUVyzetDPUE