For us, family serves as a kind of home or resting place. Our daily lives become better and happier when we have strong relationships. The family we used to consider home, however, can also be a haunted place for us, a place that drains us, and it can also cause us to feel despondent. Every relationship or family has more to it than just being happy. In the novel "Sinigang" by Marie Aubrey J. Villaceran, a heroine by the name of Liza demonstrates her strength by dealing with a family crisis, accepting the outcome, and beginning to go on.
Liza is a lovely woman who possessed both mental and emotional fortitude. According to the story, Liza began to feel the effects of her family problems when she was in her second year of high school. At that point, she learned that her father had a second family thanks to a boy who kept calling him "dad" on the phone. In addition, Liza described how, while attending the funeral of her half-brother who had passed away from cancer, she came across her father's mistress. She begged for forgiveness for what she had done to Liza, but Liza pretended to understand her and continued. Lastly Liza and her father don't get along, and she only has one question for him: "Why?" but he either won't or is unable to respond. Until the moment her father uttered "I'm sorry" at her brother's funeral, when he had a great sadness on his hands and in that moment it all ends.
Liza's life is just like how she prepared the sinigang; every decision she makes is a reflection of a challenge she has to overcome, and the only way she can do that is to keep moving forward until the dish is ready to be served. So the story of liza show us how strong she was by facing their family issue and how she accepts their situation and starts to move on.
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