Ampalaya is a nutritious source of vitamins and minerals for us. It is a vegetable in which we Filipinos make a lot of delicacies. Although the taste is bitter and others think of it as a repulsive excuse for a vegetable, others make it with their staple food of rice and fish and even meat.
The story of "ampalaya" is set on the Philippines during the year 2050 where global warming is rampant and corporations own and have rights over almost anything in the world, even nature. The main character is the common Filipino man "Juan Dela Cruz", a little slow on the technology part and just wants to live a simple life for him and his family planting ampalaya and serving it to coming guests.
From what I understand, Juan Dela Cruz could be anyone of us and the story depicts the horrible future for our country, controlled by other countries with technology being primitive and scarce. Not everyone can have the luxury of it and even the hierarchy of the politics come into play, even right now, it happens.
Th author may have used the style to depict the subtle reality which are happening right now and expand it on a future scale, the style of a post-apocalyptic is very effective, and not those stupid future epics where everyone wheres white and silver and has fluorescent lights all over the place, I mean I could have that at my place and claim its futuristic and out of this world!
Going back to the story, Juan Dela Cruz was executed for illegally planting Ampalaya and somehow it seems bad, but the idea of commercialism has it bad and nature has been contained, Germans give solar panels to mountain folks and planting ampalaya could have you killed like you were planting drugs or something. The future really is weird and thank God when that time comes, I would be old and not care at all I think...
Sadly, the future of the country is very bleak and the predictions made by the story may exist in the coming years!
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