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    The novel "Killing Time on Warm Places" by Noel Ilustre Bulaong follows the main character Noel through four phases of his life. As a child in a quiet province, Noel lives innocently until encountering Ferdinand Marcos. In university, Noel loses innocence while struggling against Marcos's tyranny as an activist. The novel describes activist life under Martial Law and Noel's imprisonment as a political detainee. As an adult, Noel incorporates into the system he once fought, feeling lost, but finds the struggle remains in his heart.

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    The novel "Killing Time on Warm Places" by Noel Ilustre Bulaong follows the main character Noel through four phases of his life. As a child in a quiet province, Noel lives innocently until encountering Ferdinand Marcos. In university, Noel loses innocence while struggling against Marcos's tyranny as an activist. The novel describes activist life under Martial Law and Noel's imprisonment as a political detainee. As an adult, Noel incorporates into the system he once fought, feeling lost, but finds the struggle remains in his heart.

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    The novel "Killing Time on Warm Places" by Noel Ilustre Bulaong follows the main character Noel through four phases of his life. As a child in a quiet province, Noel lives innocently until encountering Ferdinand Marcos. In university, Noel loses innocence while struggling against Marcos's tyranny as an activist. The novel describes activist life under Martial Law and Noel's imprisonment as a political detainee. As an adult, Noel incorporates into the system he once fought, feeling lost, but finds the struggle remains in his heart.

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    The novel "Killing Time on Warm Places" by Noel Ilustre Bulaong follows the main character Noel through four phases of his life. As a child in a quiet province, Noel lives innocently until encountering Ferdinand Marcos. In university, Noel loses innocence while struggling against Marcos's tyranny as an activist. The novel describes activist life under Martial Law and Noel's imprisonment as a political detainee. As an adult, Noel incorporates into the system he once fought, feeling lost, but finds the struggle remains in his heart.

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    REFLECTIONS ON THE NOVEL

    KILLING TIME ON WARM PLACES


    BY NOEL ILUSTRE BULAONG
    The novel has four parts which coincide with the four phases
    in the life of a man. The main character is Noel Ilustre Bulaong, a
    Visayan. The first part of the novel is dominated by images of his
    childhood in the quiet and simple province. The sense of
    innocence and simple happiness with being in tune with the rest
    of the world is prevalent until Noel's first encounter with the stillon-the-rise Ferdinand Marcos. The second part of the novel moves
    to adolescence and being a student in the university. At this point,
    Noel loses the sense of order and innocence as he and his
    comrade-activists struggle against the tyranny and cruelty of the
    already-President Ferdinand Marcos.
    This section paints a picture of how activist life was during
    Martial Law, describing the practices and routines--like secret
    huddles and singing of revolutionary songs with professors-- and
    the landscape of UP that sheltered activists and served as stage
    for the Diliman Commune. Noel, as he reminisces those times,
    reveals the future of his comrades as white-collar employees--a
    contrast to their fiery young selves. Noel proceeds to tell the story
    of his imprisonment as a political detainee. The predominant
    image that follows is Noel as an adult already incorporated into
    the capitalist-bureaucratic system he once fought. It is the sense
    of being lost to the cause after giving up his activism for a
    comfortable, ordinary life. At the end, however, Noel finds that in
    his heart, the struggle remains.
    In these events written in the book I felt the struggle of Noel
    when he was still young on what he was fighting for, his beliefs
    and dreams. There was a part wherein it was said that Prison was
    frightening, but freedom even more so. Prison could be a warm
    and restful place, and all you had to do in it was to kill some time.
    This explains the title that when he was still young he was free to
    express himself of his beliefs and as he grows older he laid low
    and exchanges his life before to a simple and peaceful life.

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