Pink is the Color of the Crescent Moon is one of the 16 personal essays penned by young Moro writers, in this case being Allyson Banga-an. In which the essay encapsulates the LGBT issues which are seldomly discussed openly in Moro communities. The author portrays his somewhat happy childhood in a madrasah. Stating early that he is fond of the color pink and other things deemed “for-girls-only”. Not only that, he and his sister dominated and were in top honors, unfortunately the school stopped operating. Nonetheless, he still blossomed into a proud Magindanaon diva, free from words that are against his sexual orientation, due to his parents and ustadz never mentioning nor articulating anything in relation to what is said before.
However, everything changed when he entered an all-boys Catholic school. In which, the author narrates the discrimination and prejudice he experienced as a young gay student in an all-boy catholic school. The author also identifies and separates discrimination by the level of tolerance and acceptance he experienced and felt between the madrasah and the catholic school. Ultimately culminating to his own conclusion that only oneself can make his or her own life. In the authors words, “There might be the pitfalls and setbacks, but I rise up to pick up the broken pieces and move on. If porcine beasts can’t fly, maybe a queer, brown diva can.”
Diction: The author uses words that corresponds to a more literate peron by using the words misogyny, flabbergasted ,deviant, and others giving it formal approach to the readers .Which it connects to our main character of the essay.
Perspective :The perspective of the essay is base on the main character’s point of view which is also the narrator of the essay as he uses the pronoun “I” giving it a perspective of first person point of view.
Tone :The tone of the story has nostalgic tone in the first part of the essay as the main character reminisce his happy childhood life as his folks never mention and articulated against his sexual orientation but the tone changed to angry, sincere and sarcastic as he progress in life encountering many hurdles especially in his high School life where he and his gay friend were called by their principal.He was very angry with his principal at that time and was being sarcastic about the hypocrisy of the principal but he was really sincere about his sexual orientation about that time that he was a proud homosexual person .
Purpose:The purpose of the essay “Pink is the color of the Crescent Moon” is to inform the readers the life and experiences of the main character as the main character which is the narrator describes and shows his thoughts about his experience in the past 2 decades as a homosexual person.
Style:The style of writing the author shows a personal style of writing which he expresses his feelings and thoughts about the subject and has looser structure because of having a more personal type of style giving it a narrative approach to us readers.
Summarizers :
Zelo Angelo Lising
Matt Joshua Lumingkit
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