My Critique for

“THE BED OF ROOTS”

 
The story of Justine U. Camacho entitled “
The Bed of Roots” is a beautiful story of love. That will make
you realize about how wonderful love is. That heart feels a
mind cannot remember. Love is a strong feeling that holds our
heart. The story also letting us see a strong connection
between family and culture.

The first paragraph means that we have to

spend time to our love ones. That we have to cherish every
moment with them. Because we'll never know what will
happen in the future. It’s better to make time with them than
having time. On the other hand the story tells us that every
moment is precious and that we have to make some memories
with them as long as they lived and show our love towards
them for us to be happy and as well as them. Because that
memories will become the treasure of tomorrow.

Furthermore, love came to where it belong. Her Tita menchu

was mention she lives in New Jersey. As well as her Tita ems
who lives in Switzerland but she came back for her family.
They came back for the same reason “ LOVE ”.this concept
convey that family is where we all belong to. We can also
relate this quote "We came from soil and we're going back to
the soil".
No matter what happens in our lives, we still go back to where
we belong because of love.

The Second paragraph deals of hard work with

love. This concept is loving what you do. You’ll see that the
grave digger is doing well in his work because he loves it and
his doing it for his family. Then he did a great job. Similarly
represents how hardworking a Filipino could be. They do
everything to achieve their goals and most of all they work
with a heart. Same way around working with a heart can bring
you to a great success.
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Thirdly both third and fourth paragraph conveys
exchanging love to each other. Here the people are getting the
fruit from the langka tree in which show same manner that
dead gives love. It is realizing that even dead can give love to
the living. In a way of memories which the living treasures
from the dead. At the same time our love to them is like the
langka tree’s roots, its deep same with our love towards our
families, so deep that can reach them no matter how far they
are underground. In the same manner the long roots of langka
tree represents our eternal love towards them. And that they
never stop on loving us. Keep in mind that love is a strong
feeling that holds our heart. Remembering the dead well not
make them lonely but happiness.
Addition to that it also said here by the digger “it was a young
girl wrap by the roots of langka tree. And it’s like the tree had
taken every fleas from her” and “ the langka’s fruit the ones we
bought were always sweet” these two statement wants to
imply the exchange of love to each other.

And lastly the loneliness turns to happiness. The rest

of the paragraphs deals with the pain we had when we our love
ones past away and the happiness their memories brings. The
author wants us to see here that when our loves gone it feels
like you are the same with the dead being buried. The
difference is that you are buried in pain not in the soil. But as
the time past we learn to accept it. Then we realized that it’s
not too late to show our love to them. It’s like believing in a
saying that “ The death is not the end of everything” It is the
beginning that will never end because our love will continue at
the other side of the world.
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In addition the story “ The Beds of Roots” over all represents

the culture of Filipino and the different concept of a family. The
author let us see how deep Filipinos love towards their family.
That they spend time to their family and make memorable
memories. They work hard for them because they love their
family. And shows love of eternity.
The author also make us realized that Filipinos heart never
forgets . Visiting the cemetery to pay your respects and
remember. Most of us have loved ones who have passed on.
Because of our respect and love towards the deads make the
cemetery a community of love not scary . They puts everything
in the heart not in the mind. That what Filipino all about we
treasure our love ones as much as we treasure our culture. By
the way The gravesite is not a lonely and scary place but full of
happiness and love memories.
To sum it all giving The author of the story want us to
understand clearly the concept of importance of the
remembering our beloveds that gone away. Because they
shaped us to became a strong person that will give happiness
to other same with the langka tree. Importance to the dead is a
gift to you and your loved ones that is dead because you
treasure them. They’ve been part of your life same with the
langka they help you grow to be strong and became sweet
towards other people.
Furthermore, Filipino culture is like the langka tree it's growing
and giving sweet fruits. Same with our culture as it grows it gives
more and sweet information for us todeveloped our culture and
make everyone impressed in our culture. Therefore lets treasure
everything we have.
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