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    The poem invites the Pope to visit Tondo to see the realities of poverty that the residents face. It references the Pope's first visit to the country in 1946 and a failed assassination attempt on the Pope by a Bolivian surrealist in that year. The poem uses sarcasm and criticism to highlight the social contradictions and struggles present in Manila at that time between religion and politics.

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    The poem invites the Pope to visit Tondo to see the realities of poverty that the residents face. It references the Pope's first visit to the country in 1946 and a failed assassination attempt on the Pope by a Bolivian surrealist in that year. The poem uses sarcasm and criticism to highlight the social contradictions and struggles present in Manila at that time between religion and politics.

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    Invitation to Pope to Visit Tondo Slums

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    The poem invites the Pope to visit Tondo to see the realities of poverty that the residents face. It references the Pope's first visit to the country in 1946 and a failed assassination attempt on the Pope by a Bolivian surrealist in that year. The poem uses sarcasm and criticism to highlight the social contradictions and struggles present in Manila at that time between religion and politics.

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    ANOTHER INVITATION TO THE POPE TO VISIT TONDO

    EMMANUEL TORRES

    HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHICAL
    TEXT HISTORY
    The year when the Pope

    1946

    Emphasis on

    POVERTY

    first visited the country Squatters, scavengers, beggars these figures of the urban excess have served as important, politicizing images of social contradiction in the vigorous Philippine tradition of protest in literature, film and art from the 1960s to the present

    TEXT

    HISTORY

    surreal assassins

    A Bolivean surrealist

    named Benjamin Mendoza attempted to assassinate the Pope


    Our eyes shall bless

    the liveliness of dollars.

    The Pope gave $500 to

    the lucky family he visited at Tondo.

    HITORICAL -BIOGRAPHICAL
    Text Authors Background

    Setting: MANILA The text is full of

    Born in Manila The author is an

    wonderfully-made statements with sarcasm


    Protest poem

    educated man

    Hes a critic

    MORAL-PHILOSOPHICAL
    People sees RELIGION as a solution to the

    crisis that they experience.

    The intellectual milieu filled with sarcastic

    language emphasizing political and religious struggle

    People sees POVERTY just on the surface

    level.

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