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* HellholePrison: where Pepe gets incarcerated/detained, interrogated, and tortured. Upon his release he realises it wasn’t far from his university (so, in RealLife, it's most likely Old Bilibid, aka the City Jail).
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* HellholePrison: Both the detention centre in some undisclosed location where Pepe gets incarcerated/detained, interrogated, and tortured. Upon his release he realises it wasn’t far from his university (so, in RealLife, it's most likely tortured, and then later, Old Bilibid, aka the City Jail).Jail, where he's transferred before finally being released.
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* PrisonRape: At one point during his imprisonment Pepe is transferred to the old City Jail in Manila, where he's lumped in with common criminals. One of the big crooks there oils him down and quickly sodomises him.
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''Mass'' is a 1973 novel by Filipino novelist F. Sionil José, the third in order of writing, and chronologically the fifth and last instalment, of his acclaimed ''Rosales Saga'' novels, so named for the provincial Philippine town, in Pangasinan province, where he grew up.
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''Mass'' is a 1973 1976 novel by Filipino novelist F. Sionil José, the third in order of writing, and chronologically the fifth and last instalment, of his acclaimed ''Rosales Saga'' novels, so named for the provincial Philippine town, in Pangasinan province, where he grew up.
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* CharacterNarrator: Pepe.
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* TheNarrator: Pepe.
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* NotSoDifferent: Both Tony and Pepe fall for metropolitan Manila-based {{Uptown Girl}}s.
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* NotSoDifferent: Both Tony and Pepe fall for Pobres Park’s {{Uptown Girl}}s.
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* NotSoDifferent: Both Tony and Pepe fall for Pobres Park’s metropolitan Manila-based {{Uptown Girl}}s.
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** Also, Tony gets adopted into Pobres Park but kills himself in Antipolo Street. Pepe is ill-at-ease in Pobres Park and even kills a rich resident. (He himself is shot dead much later, around 1992, in first act of the play ''Balikbayan'', aptly titled ''The Passing of Pepe Samson''.)
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** Also, Tony gets adopted into a wealthy Sta Mesa suburb—a Pobres Park but forerunner—but kills himself in the Antipolo Street.Street railway slums. Pepe is ill-at-ease in Pobres Park and even kills a rich resident. (He himself is shot dead much later, around 1992, in first act of the play ''Balikbayan'', aptly titled ''The Passing of Pepe Samson''.)
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* ManInWhite: Juan Puneta.
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* PuppetState: A lot of the novel revolves around Pepe's (TruthInTelevision) perception that the Philippines basically is this to [[EvilColonialist the United States]].
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* TheOphelia: Tia Nena, who keeps trying to look for her two sons, always calling them by name.
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* EvilColonialist: Despite the Philippines' nominal "independence", American neocolonial influence still casts a long shadow, most prominently with the enormous military bases still in the country and their support of Marcos' soon-to-be dictatorship.
** OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: The protests Pepe and the Brotherhood organise and participate in therefore have a very anticolonialist character even within a supposedly "sovereign" nation.
** OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: The protests Pepe and the Brotherhood organise and participate in therefore have a very anticolonialist character even within a supposedly "sovereign" nation.
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* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: Despite the Philippines' nominal "independence", American neocolonial influence still casts a long shadow, most prominently with the enormous military bases still in the country and their support of Marcos' soon-to-be dictatorship. The protests Pepe and the Brotherhood organise and participate in therefore have a very anticolonialist character even within a supposedly "sovereign" nation.
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* EagleLand: Mostly Type 2 considering American support of the would-be dictator Marcos and their huge military bases in the country. Ka Lucio does raise a Type 1 exception by pointing out to Pepe and Toto that the U.S. bases provide thousands of local jobs at the very least.
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* ComingOfAgeStory
* LitFic
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* CelebrityParadox: A mild example, but Recto Avenue exists in the ''Rosales''-verse, and Senator Reyes is the in-universe {{Expy}} of the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claro_M._Recto Claro M. Recto]], for whom the avenue is named.
** in in the play ''Dong-Ao'', Sen. Reyes also explicitly says that Recto was one of his colleagues.
** in in the play ''Dong-Ao'', Sen. Reyes also explicitly says that Recto was one of his colleagues.
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* ExpyCoexistence: Recto Avenue exists in the ''Rosales''-verse, and Senator Reyes is the in-universe {{Expy}} of the real-life nationalist politician [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claro_M._Recto Claro M. Recto]], for whom the avenue is named.
** In the play ''Dong-Ao'', Sen. Reyes also explicitly says that Recto was one of his colleagues.
** In the play ''Dong-Ao'', Sen. Reyes also explicitly says that Recto was one of his colleagues.
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* RebelLeader: Ka Lucio, who gives Pepe and Toto advice on effective activism, is a retired one; he used to fight in the ''Huk'' army ("''Huk''" = short for ''Hukbong Magpalaya ng Bayan'', or "People's Liberation Army"), which fought for the masses' rights against the Filipino elites and their American backers.
** This makes him possibly a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of RealLife Huk leader Luis Taruc (their names even sound similar).
** This makes him possibly a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of RealLife Huk leader Luis Taruc (their names even sound similar).
