FOR THE FINAL SHORT STORY

THIRD WEEK

MAPAGMASID KA KAIBIGAN

ni Sheryl lou  Mandriza

\Oh! Kaibigan iyong

 pagmasdan

Kay daming basurahan

Bakit  basura mo’y itinapon

Mo lang kung saan.

Wag kang bastos at pulutin mo yan.

 

Maawa ka naman sa mga tagalinis

Nitong ating paaralan

Di porket ika’y mayaman

At anak ng may kapangyarihan

Isipin mo naman ang kalikasan

At sa mga taong nahihirapan

Dulot ng  ating kapabayaan

 Galit na ang kalikasan

 di mo ba nararamdaman?

Ang dati’y liwanag ng araw

 ay maaari pa tayong maghabulan.

Ngayon umaga pa lang

takot na tayong masinagan

Dahil sa sobrang init

 na ating maramdaman.

 

Kaibigan tayo’y  magtulungan

Walang mahirap dito o mayaman

Lahat tayo’y maaapektuhan

Sa  kung ano mang mangyayari sa ating kapaligiran.

Gumawa tayo ng paraan para maibsan

Ang nagbabadyang unos sa galit ng inang kalikasan

Oh! Kaibigan baguhin mo na ang iyong nakagawian

SECOND WEEK

THE WEDDING DANCE

The wedding dance is a story of a married couple in the mountain tribes of Northern Luzon. Who have been married for seven harvest period but still they are unlucky because their god Kabunyan did not bless them a child. According to the story if a man does not have a son he is considered to be inferior to the other in their community. Awiyao loves Lumnay, yet he needs to redeem himself by remarrying another woman named Madulimay to finally have a child, for the society will accept him.

On the night of the wedding, when Awiyao could not find Lumnay among the dancers at his wedding, Awiyao went to his and Lumnay’s house. He personally invites Lumnay to join the traditional dance in his wedding. However, Lumnay the best dancer in their tribe refuses. During that moment, they reminisce the past and reveal that they still love each other, but because of their tribe’s custom that a man must a have child that would carry his name, they have to separate. Lumnay was greatly not favor for it, she can barely let go of her husband. Her heart is shouting with agony. Awiyao promised her that if he fails to have a child, he will come back to the arms of Lumnay.

Awiyao went back to the wedding feast, after being fetched by a friend. Lumnay decided to go to the wedding she wanted to protest against the written rule of their tribe about a man can carry another woman. But seeing his husband marrying another woman, suddenly she stopped and turned back, defeated. She walked away from dancing ground, away from the village. She went to the mountain where she diverted all her bittersweet memories.

 "A few more weeks, a few more months, a few more harvests---what did it matter? She would be holding the bean flowers, soft in the texture, silken almost, but moist where the dew got into them, silver to look at, silver on the light blue, blooming whiteness, when the morning comes. The stretching of the bean pods full length from the hearts of the wilting petals would go on." Lumnay’s finger moved a long, long time among the growing bean pods.

          Wedding Dance by Amador T. Daguio is such a nice story that opens us to the forgotten culture of our Filipino tribes in the Philippines. It made us aware on how the way of their living associated with their tradition and belief. Like of what had happened in the story they let their tribe law dictates their future. It just like marriage in this culture was seen as an agreement between a man and a woman for the purposes of creating children.

Awiyao force to leave Lumnay, in order to satisfy the society’s expected norms and the bitter truth about the inequality of the sexes. Man vs. society is the main conflict that revolved around the story. The author used the third person point of view omniscient. The narrator knows everything about all the characters is all knowing. We can see the thoughts of the characters when the narrator reveals them to the readers. The author also used symbolism in his story; seed is the symbol dramatizes the fertility of the land as against the feeling of barrenness and loneliness in the wedding dance. 

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FIRST WEEK

SUMMARY OF MY BROTHERS PECULIAR CHICKEN

Kiko and his brother found a strange chicken one day. They argue over it because they could not tell whether it is a hen or a rooster. They began to ask their parents about it and they also argued all themselves. They decided to consult Tinienteng Tasio, the head or the chief of the village, but unfortunately could not also tell the gender of the chicken. After that, they went to Mr. Eduardo Cruz, he lived in the nearby town of Alcala and who had studied poultry husbandry at Los Baños, and he operated a large egg farm. Mr. Cruz said to them if it’s okay to cut it up and examine it, but Kiko yelled no, so the brothers walked home empty-handed. So instead, they decided to test the chicken to a cockfight; it was match with a red Texan rooster. A strange thing happened in the match, the red rooster did the love dance with the peculiar chicken meaning, the Texan rooster fell in love with the peculiar chicken, but the peculiar chicken kill the Texan rooster. Unexpected, their chicken won the fight which lead to a riot. They thought it was the last sign to tell their chicken is a rooster but to be surprise, as they ran away to the hall, the chicken laid an egg.

This story reminds us that we Filipinos are fun of reading and writing humorous stories which inline the rich culture of our country. That Filipinos love to laugh and have fun.  We have sense of humor amidst the problems that we encounter day by day; being able to see the bright side of life in the midst of adversity, we can still laugh at our problems. However, there are also disadvantages of Filipino Humor which is quite disturbing. Like the issues of gambling, cockfights as mention in the story, card games, karerahan and pustahan vices that we adopt during the time of our colonizers.

The story happen in cornfield; a barrio, the author which is Alejandro Roces better known as Anding Roces focuses on the ignored rich culture of our country. The style is richly – detailed and flow

ing and as we notice the story’s voice it is somewhat comical or funny. The author uses the first person point of view.

The conflict of the story is about the unusual chicken, whether it is a hen or a rooster. Kiko says it is a rooster, his brother says it is a hen their father says it is a hen, a lesbian hen while their mother says it is a rooster, a gay one the teniente del barrio says it must be a bird of some kind, Mr. Eduardo Cruz he has to kill the hen and examine it to identify. The complication is that the chicken has characteristic of both hen and rooster, that the reason why they are arguing. So the brothers try to find answers to their questions. Finally, after the cockfight the brother convince that it is a rooster; it seems that the peculiar chicken of Kiko is rooster but suddenly his peculiar chicken lay an egg that will give an idea for the reader’s that his peculiar chicken is a hen.