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    The poem "The Nunok on the Hill" by Catalina Faronilo Hontomin uses symbolism to depict a child's grief over losing his parents. The child is represented by the falling leaves and branches of the Nunok tree on a hill overlooking the sea. As the poem progresses, more of the tree falls away, mirroring the child's deepening despair and loneliness. Though the sea represents the source of his sadness as it took his parents, the sounds of waves also provide a glimmer of hope. In the end, the child finds hope even in his greatest sorrow, showing inner strength through maintaining a positive perspective despite immense loss.

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    The poem "The Nunok on the Hill" by Catalina Faronilo Hontomin uses symbolism to depict a child's grief over losing his parents. The child is represented by the falling leaves and branches of the Nunok tree on a hill overlooking the sea. As the poem progresses, more of the tree falls away, mirroring the child's deepening despair and loneliness. Though the sea represents the source of his sadness as it took his parents, the sounds of waves also provide a glimmer of hope. In the end, the child finds hope even in his greatest sorrow, showing inner strength through maintaining a positive perspective despite immense loss.

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    The poem "The Nunok on the Hill" by Catalina Faronilo Hontomin uses symbolism to depict a child's grief over losing his parents. The child is represented by the falling leaves and branches of the Nunok tree on a hill overlooking the sea. As the poem progresses, more of the tree falls away, mirroring the child's deepening despair and loneliness. Though the sea represents the source of his sadness as it took his parents, the sounds of waves also provide a glimmer of hope. In the end, the child finds hope even in his greatest sorrow, showing inner strength through maintaining a positive perspective despite immense loss.

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    The Nunok on the Hill by Catalina Faronilo Hontomin in 1908, represents a deep sense of
    despair and a strong expression of emotions. The poem has only 8- verse lines and 14 syllables,
    with the structure of a lyric poem. The poem has a child who serves as the main character, while
    the setting takes place on a hill with a Nunuk tree with a sorrowful sight of the sea. The speaker’s
    emotion while narrating the poem was full of sadness and its tone is very gloomy because of the
    main character’s grief. The author also used the tree as a metaphor which symbolizes the child
    who has been devastated by the loss of his parents because of an incident at the sea, while the
    branches and leaves of the Nunok tree falling symbolize the child’s emotions giving into sadness
    not only because of his hopelessness but also because of his loneliness with the death of his
    parents, and the sea which represents as a reminiscence for the appalling incident. In The Nunok
    on the Hill of Catalina, it uses the symbolism of the sea, the nunok tree, and its branches to
    narrate the protagonist’s sadness. Catalina Faronilo Hontomin gave us a series of emotions using
    symbolism, from sadness and mourning to desperation for hope. In the first line of the poem,
    which said “The Nunuk on the hill short forth the leaves and twigs;” the protagonist's emotions
    represent the leaves and twigs of the trees, which are slowly falling from the tree like his
    emotions that are slowly becoming more negative, but the negativity of his emotions hit him
    harder when the branches of the tree also fell in the second verse which said there “Then
    suddenly all its branches fell and I under it”. In the third verse, it said there “On what is left I
    cannot watch the boats on the sea” he did not catch sight of the boats and the sea because he was
    still clouded with negative thoughts, while on the fourth line which said there “For I stand on the
    side from the sea” in this verse the boy saw the sea where his parents passed away. The fifth
    verse, which said “I weep in my grief” directly tells us that his emotional state is only filled with
    sadness because he caught a depressing sight of the sea. Lastly, the last three lines said “It was
    the sea that made me an orphan;” “The sad news came to me in the roar of the breakers,” and
    “From the voice of the mighty sea currents.” it narrates that with the sound of the roar of the
    boats' breakers and the voices from the mighty sea currents he recalled the reason why he
    became an orphan but even, though he found these noises very depressing, he found the sound of
    the sea as a sign of hope, even though it is the reason why the ones that he loved the most are
    gone. The poem can relate to a world problem which is depression a common illness worldwide,
    with an estimated 3.8% of the population affected according to (WHO) World Health
    Organization, because the poem can teach others that even though some people feel like their
    losing hope in life, always remember to look for a glimpse of hope even though things are tough,
    just like the protagonist of the poem who feels very helpless but, in the end, he had a sense of
    positivity beneath all the negativity. The second real-life problem I can relate to in the poem is an
    anxiety disorder, this scenario happens when depression is getting worse, but this can be
    prevented by having a mindset of optimism like what the protagonist did in the ending verses of
    The Nunok on the Hill. In conclusion, the main idea of the analysis is that, even though some
    people feel like they are losing hope in life, always remember to always have a sense of
    positivity and look for a glimpse of hope even though things are tough. The protagonist of the
    story is a very strong person because even that everything fell apart and there are still a lot of
    pieces missing from him, just like how the leaves and branches of the tree fell one after another,
    slowly until he is only filled with a sense of pessimism, he still had positive thinking at the end
    under all that despair.

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