Who is tarang? Characterized him.

What is the plot of this selection?

From Alex Maskara's Philippinefiction Site - The Learning Webby (http://www.alexmaskara.com/nvm_gonzales.html) --

The boy Tarang of Children of Ash Covered Loam reminds me of the boy we see everyday of our lives. He stares at everything around him with curiosity, he looks at the carabao as if it were talking to him. He watches the movements of his mother and father and little baby sister and every word he hears form them is carefully recorded in his mind. Everything is new to him: the hemped clothes of the old midwife Orang, the coconut-shell dipper, the rain. A reminder to all of us about our first discoveries in life and the world!

Plot from the same site --

This is not a story! This is a portrait. This is a painting. This is discovering. This writer is capturing in words a photograph about some little, ordinary thing and it's exclusively meant for me! Yeah. Children of Ash Covered Loam is still life super. And I am watching this kid - then I become the kid. I don't understand why I see myself as the kid. Why this kid is soooooo familiar. So common. So....oooh yeah! So like me. And I go through the whirlwind of my beautiful youth.