ACTIVITY #5

 

FIGHTMENT In 

MY OWN Fights

And in midst of 

endless misery, suffering and pain.

because they too were smiling 

and laughing like nothing else.

carrying of 

loads of issues.

Drowned by feelings 

of your own.

Everything is chaotic and 

doesn't feel like an end.

Fear, in life, 

is my opponent.

Giving up is always my choice, 

but it will never be my decision.

how what I 

aim for is happiness.

In life, I've learned that 

if you're weak, you lose.

Just fight and 

go beyond any wars.

Keep trying harder. That's what 

I always remember about myself.

Losing 

is unavoidable.

Maybe there are other things 

happening in the process of everything.

Nothing can be obtained or 

surpassed in the simplest way.

Only as human, I often get tired and tend 

to forget what I've been fighting for and living for.

 pressures me to its 

limits with pain and overthinking.

Questions in my mind piled 

up in search of answers.

 reasons that pushed 

my head to squeeze in.

 still doubted myself 

in many ways often.

There are countless times 

when I feel nervous.

underestimate myself, my 

strength and my own skills.

Voiceless in all that 

I'd like to scream. 

Why am I 

sort of like that? 

I still ask

myself the question. 

Xenas, I want 

to be that. 

Yet, I think 

I'm just the opposite. 

Zip zap guy 

outside, inside bleeding.

Memoir

 

When time 

went by,

I can see and describe life as a beautiful one when I was a kid. My life is just easy, then. Even though we don't have enough money to simply buy what we want and see, we're satisfied. It is sufficient for us to have what our everyday needs are.Because of one thing, I didn't experience as a child having many toys, dolls, clothes and shoes, the money that parents received from work is just enough to provide us with our daily needs, but while I don't have those things, I'm happy and very happy, why do I need those with whom I have siblings and aunt to play, a father I see as a hero, a loving and caring mother.I have a full and happy family right by my side, in short. I haven't got much to wish for. They are more than adequate for me, and no treasure will ever replace them.

I spend children's days full of smiles, laughter and affection. Treasuring and hoping for every moment has no limit. I recalled climbing trees, sitting in the branches, singing my favorite song, and ending up crying because I didn't know how to get from there.I'd never forget the moment when we felt we didn't have a class, so my friends and I wanted to take a dip in the river near our school and we were punished then, because we were soaked and it was very hot outside, we were exposed to the sun to dry us.My happiness then seemed to have no limits and no containment. In everyone's eyes, I can see genuine happiness and laughter.

First semester take home exam

 Small World

Ledesma St., San Juan

LITERARY TOOLS AND ANALYSIS

(1) Plot (Synopsis)

Ledesma Street was a short one and quiet. Their house was unassuming, with walls of a modest height and green gate. The gate opened to a long three-car garage where they'd play football and where parties can be held. Their mother sent most of them to piano lessons. San Juan seemed pretty much the whole city because even his relatives were there. Even if its small, it is extravagant to a little one. And for him it is the world.

(2) Conflict 

  In the boy’s high school days he discovered the perilous thrill of chasing after girls. Going to soirées, meeting them, getting their phone numbers calling them up

(3) Theme Tranquility

(4) Characters 

The boy, Tito Bing, Mother, Father, Fathers parents, Tito Pepot, Tito Lito, Litonjuas, Tita Letty, Mendozas, Bombit, Niña

(5) Point of view used 

First-person point of view First-Person Point of View

(6) Narrative Voice Employed 

Stream-of-Consciousness

(7) Narrative Time 

1984

(8) Angle of the Story 

Ledesma Street was quiet and short. With walls of a modest height and a green gate, our house was unassuming. The gate to a long three-car garage opened. We were going to play football there, and Bombit, the oldest, fell on his wrist once and broke it. Parties can be organized there as well. San Juan appeared to be pretty much the entire town then, and there were also my relatives.

(9) Setting 

In the house, Greenhills, Ledesma Street,  San Juan, Ortigas to Meralco, M. Paterno Street, Mariano Marcos Street, Unimart

(10) Symbols used Small

Dark

(11) Cited Dialogues 

Inner Dialogue

Outer Dialogue

(12) Other Literary Devices Cited Understatement

Irony

Hyperbole

ACTIVITY 3 AND 4

 Activity 3 and 4

1. Menacing

- Due to poverty there are some individuals who are not educated they tend to do this kind of job just to surpass hunger. To give their family a food to eat. They choose this kind of job not because they want or like it but because they don’t have a choice due to poverty.

2. Homeless

- There are certain people who just leave in the streets because they don’t have a house.

Some of them are just relying to those people who across on the street to ask for a money so they can buy foods. Poverty is really a serious problem to our country.

3. Consciousness

- Both state leadership and religious beliefs hang on to certainty. In life, everyone has a different perception, as well as interpretations. Religious values are closely tied to political problems, although there are certain cases in which political legislation and religious beliefs are not consistent each other at the same period.

4. Opportunity

- Job openings are a great opportunity to those person who are jobless for a long time, less fortunate and also it would lessen a individuals who are jobless. Slowly the poverty we’re facing in this time would be  a lessen.

5. Less fortunate

As I see the picture there are so many children who are starving due to lack of support from their parents, jobless parents, uneducated parents etc. 

6. Peace

- It very understandable that this picture implies their concern about stopping the war, no to martial law and etc. They are fighting for peace nor a war. 

7. Unsafe

- Safety is a must but in this picture its an opposite one.

You can really see that its overcrowded. This not a safety especially to the new born babies because they are not already have a strong immune system because they are just a baby.

8. Overflow 

- We already have a problem in transport & flow. There has been a boom in the growing number of automobiles, but the road network has barely expanded. They can first learn how to read them before drivers can heed traffic signals. Where to cross the street or get on & off public transport, in particular.

9. Vanquish

- Bullying happens when an individual or group threatens to injure someone who is smaller or more vulnerable repeatedly. Bad behavior aimed at you hurts no matter what shape it takes. The consequences can last a long time and, in many ways, affect a human. I assume that individuals have an inner need to intimidate people. The internet is bad because you can say & do something and don't need to control yourself, and there is no cap.

10. Reminiscence

- A tradition where, in remembrance of their loved ones, several people assemble in the cemetery. For those people now living about the past lives of their ancestors or influential ones, a daily and annual reminder. Saturday of Souls is a similar practice most found in Eastern Christianity, although not exclusively celebrated in Western Christianity. Practitioners of the rituals of

 the Day of All Souls also recall dead loved ones on the day in different ways.

11. Tragic

- Floods cause enormous damage, which is one of the most destructive natural disasters. In most places where there is heavy flooding and inadequate drainage infrastructure, residents lose their homes in floods.

12. Informal settlers

About 4.5 million people are homeless or living in informal settlements in the Philippines, with its population of about 106 million, according to the statistics office. About 3 million of them are in Metro Manila, possibly the most in any urban area in the world, charities estimate.

ACTIVITY 2

 Activity 2 

“Not all Poems Sing”

By: Merlie Alunan

In the poem “Not all Poems Sing” author mentioned and compared many things just to express or tells what she wants us to gets and understand. In the poem she mentioned about the flowers, stone,sand,birds etc. In my own understanding all she wanted for us to understand the value of our life and love that being an introvert person would brings us at peace. The title of the poem “ Not all Poems Sing” implies that sometimes we can’t sing but we can express it in other way.

Structure

Form: figure of speech

Tercet

Narrative poetry simile 

Cinquain

Metaphor

Seplet

Symbolism

Sestet

Side question:

How do the author look at love and life?

Ans: 

As I’ve read the poem, in life we all have many thoughts and doubts that we can’t express but we van express it in other way. In love, just like the poem that doesn’t sing same as the feeling.

What symbol can you find in the poem, identify and explain?

Ans:

For me SING, it symbolizes as the voices that cannot be heard and thoughts that you can’t tell but be able to recognize and understand like the poem that can’t sing but there are voices that cant be heard even if you would voice it out.

The Snowman

 There was a woman who is loaded with a lot of responsibilities because her husband is suffering an illness known as Gastroesophagael Reflux Disease (GERD). When all the local doctors in their place could do nothing about it she doesn’t have a choice but to bring her husband in the United States and because her husband is sick she doesn’t have enough time for her 2 years old son. After a short stay in America they decided to go home. Two weeks after she found out that her son has a rare and serious blood disease called Idiophatic Thrombocytopenic Pupura that causes some bruises she noticed in her sons body recently and she suspected it as a leukemia. She felt relief that after some test and findings it is not. While she was still in the hospital for her son she receive a call that her mother was not feeling well and it is suffering a mild stroke. Grief ran through her as a bizarre illness gripped on her family. When the doctor declared that her son was free from the bleeding and bruising disorder, they decided to travel to United States. In arriving there she struggled because they have no place to stay bet there was a kind hearted couple offered their home for them. When her husbands surgery was set on early October another kind heartedness occurred. Past lunchtime she was told that the surgery went well and have nothing to worry although during the operation. They detected a scarring on the liver that may happened during the previous surgery. She hold her husbands hand and pray that she knows she will be losing him. Now during winter she builds snowman then embrace the three of her life.

CHARACTERS:

Dr. Salky- A doctor who had taken the wrap down perfectly

Dr. Solano- a friend Uncle Winnie- Who live in San Francisco

Dr. Sally- Gastro Specialist President Abraham Lincoln

Dr. J. Queteves- declared that her son was free from the bleeding and bruising disorder. M. And Dr. Catacutan- a kind-hearted couple who offered their home to us until the time we flew back to San Francisco.

Tita Perla- who picked up the three of us at the airport terminal. S

SETTINGS: 

Palm plaza in manila America 

San Francisco Nursing school 

San Francisco General Hospital

 New York Keanu La Guardia Cebu.

ACTIVITY 1

Analysis

There was a  12 year old male child who lived in a t sustainship sur laged by mingled barrios. He was a round and static fount. In communication channel with these texts, once I was told to go to Libas with a bottle of attending for  Tio Sabelos wife and I thought of bringing slip shrimps to my mother he was visualized in the story as an obedient and a dutiful lad. Being a 12 year old boy, he was easily affected by the rumors surrounding him, to the point of close believing them with knocked out(p) reasonable proofs. He was unnamed because he lacks his own identity. Towards the end, he said the see eyes of the biggest, which was still alive, seemed to flare at me--- and then they overstep out the eyes of the hag. He, himself, got confused whether it was the witchs advocate or he was just affected by the stories nearly him. In this case, the author, Tiempo, was successful in creating a intertwine percentage that will turn the readers decide whether to believe in much(prenominal) folklore or not. Minggay Awok was portrayed as the main antagonist in the story. She was speculated as the witch in the story and was blamed for all(a) in all the too bad incidents that happened in their place.

Summary

The stories say a witch known as Minggay Awok which means witch in Visayan lives near the creek dividing the Libas and Sinit-an neighborhoods. The inhabitants were frightened by their unusual presence, lonely life, and occasional visits to the barrios. Whenever strange things happen, she has always been blamed.

Minggay was therefore also exposed to various attempts at killing in order to stop the curse she supposedly placed on them. Our suspicions have never been confirmed, however. One day, a boy who visits his uncle in Libas from time to time met an old woman fishing in the creek. She was kind enough to take him to a place where he could get more shrimps. And the question of his experience with the contrasting picture of the witch in the stream with the old woman.

Characters

Minggay Awok

-round character (antagonist)

-she was speculated as the witch in the story and she was blamed for all the unfortunate incidents happened in their place

The boy 

-flat character (protagonist)

-he has portrayed in the story as an obedient and dutiful lad. He was easily affected by the rumors surrounding him, to the point of almost believing them without reasonable proofs.

Tio Sabelo

-the head teacher of the barrio school.

Setting

-Barrio of Libas 

Plot/ Central conflict

- The Witch is a story that was written by Edilberto K Tiempo and talks about a witch who is allegedly on a vengeful path. The kind of conflict in the story can be classified as a conflict between man (man versus man). The story ends with a happy tone after the suspected witch turned out to be a helpful woman.

Theme

“Not all we see, touch, and hear is true, we can’t judge a thing or idea that only seen by our eyes”

Side questions

Do you think Minggay is really a witch? Why or why not? Explain your answer.

- Minggay is not really a witch she was just speculated as the witch because of the unfortunate incidents happened in their place.The main character has heard of rumors about Minggay Awok, the witch who was feared in Libas, but he truly has no idea who she was. 

What is the relation between the boy and Minggay?

For me, there was no relationship involve between the two because they just met at the creek while catching some shrimp.

Explain the difference of the short story to the other forms of literature like poetry, drama, essay, etc.

- Short stories usually focus on a single event or crisis, where novels have much more time to explore multiple events with a complex plot. A single event usually occurs in a short time frame, such as a day, although it might be fast tracked across a longer period of time.Just like drama.