Personal Interview with Kenneth Hartigan-Go, Audio Clip 3
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Title
Personal Interview with Kenneth Hartigan-Go, Audio Clip 3
Description
The interviewer asks the interviewee if the school environment impacted how he personally learned the book. The interviewee explains that the school environment helped him and other students learn the book, because the lessons, the discussions, and the examinations provided a way to focus on remembering and understanding details.
Creator
Kenneth Hartigan-Go
Kaylee Hartigan-Go
Source
Personal conversation between Kenneth Hartigan-Go and Kaylee Hartigan-Go
Publisher
Kaylee Hartigan-Go
Date
November 20, 2020
Rights
Kaylee Hartigan-Go
Kenneth Hartigan-Go
Format
Audio file (mp3)
Language
English
Coverage
Manila, Philippines
Oral History Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Audio file (mp3)
Duration
2 minutes 5 seconds
Transcription
Kaylee:
Do you think that the school environment — such as having to learn it with classmates, having to write essays, being quizzed on the novel — impacted how you personally learned the book?
Kenneth:
[0:11] Yes, it helped. Because it made us, as students, at that young age, pay attention to details. We had to read it, as I said, in the vernacular. And it wasn't easy for me — English being easier to digest and read — but learning in Tagalog and then trying to find the nuance of what the message was behind every sentence there made it, in fact, very challenging for me. But the examinations, the discussions in class, helped us anchor a focus on what was happening. Going back in high school — as I recall — we were not writing too much essays. It was really more of fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice type of right or wrong answers.
Kaylee:
[1:10] Okay, so more about detail. More about the memorization of details.
Kenneth:
[1:14] Exactly. Rather than what were the nuances and the context of the time and what was happening, in the context of the Spanish colonization, the religious dominance, the corruption that was happening, and how the society was subservient to the Spanish colonizers. The second insight of the novel was about: people with power become corrupt. The religious authorities, as well as the people who were governing the Philippine islands at the time, exhibited some form of authoritarianism and corruption.
Do you think that the school environment — such as having to learn it with classmates, having to write essays, being quizzed on the novel — impacted how you personally learned the book?
Kenneth:
[0:11] Yes, it helped. Because it made us, as students, at that young age, pay attention to details. We had to read it, as I said, in the vernacular. And it wasn't easy for me — English being easier to digest and read — but learning in Tagalog and then trying to find the nuance of what the message was behind every sentence there made it, in fact, very challenging for me. But the examinations, the discussions in class, helped us anchor a focus on what was happening. Going back in high school — as I recall — we were not writing too much essays. It was really more of fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice type of right or wrong answers.
Kaylee:
[1:10] Okay, so more about detail. More about the memorization of details.
Kenneth:
[1:14] Exactly. Rather than what were the nuances and the context of the time and what was happening, in the context of the Spanish colonization, the religious dominance, the corruption that was happening, and how the society was subservient to the Spanish colonizers. The second insight of the novel was about: people with power become corrupt. The religious authorities, as well as the people who were governing the Philippine islands at the time, exhibited some form of authoritarianism and corruption.
Interviewer
Kaylee Hartigan-Go
Interviewee
Kenneth Hartigan-Go
Location
Manila, Philippines
Files
Citation
Kenneth Hartigan-Go and Kaylee Hartigan-Go, “Personal Interview with Kenneth Hartigan-Go, Audio Clip 3,” Spatial Humanities, accessed December 22, 2024, https://spatial-humanities.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/34373.