The White Horse of Ali
- Alih is a young Moro and a non-Christian who live in the village across the river on the edge of the sea where the nipa-thatched houses were perched on the posts above the water. Alih is not as brave as his brother Omar. He has a good heart but easily frightened unlike Omar-- a brave man and ready to kill anytime for their beliefs and traditions.
- The story takes place during the President Ferdinand Marcos regime whereas there were rebellions between the gorilla and the government. They fought for their rights because they felt inequality and abusing of power.
- The story showed the situation of our countrymen in the Mindanao especially on the Muslim area where the people there are different in those who are in the town.
- The conflict began when the Moro’s' felt the discrimination between them and the people in the town.
- Alih had killed on the end of the story after his stab his brother Omar with his razor-sharp blade and there is possibility to disown him by his village.
- Alih had experienced the pains when he knew the dead of his father during the fight, when he felt the discrimination in their society and when he rejected by Fermina. Consequently, he felt the pleasure on his happy days with Lucy, ridding on the horse and playing in the river. The girl holding to a pole on the globe where the American and Philippine emphasizing made him also happy.
- “The White Horse of Alih” describes the beliefs of Moro’s when and how they will go to heaven. For them it symbolises as their reward for killing.
