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DEAD STAR

PLOT SUMMARY EXPOSITION Alfredo is thinking about the mess he made on his love life upon hearing the conversation of Carmen and Don Julian about his relationship with Ezperanza. At some point in a trip, he met the innocent and naïve Julia Salas from whom he fell in love and found what he is lacking. RISING ACTION After being so much in loved to Esperanza, the feelings had subsided. With Julia he felt more lively as a calm man as him could be. In the night before Julia’s departure he tried to confess his feelings but in the end, their relationship had gone no better. CLIMAX The composed Alfredo had an argument with the modest Esperanza about their conflicting views of what seems to be an immoral act that Calixta did. This thereby lead to Esperanza hinting of not being the one to go out of her place, of not being the one who tried to sought another.

By:Paz Marquez Benitez

CHARACTERS: MAJOR • Alfredo Salazar - son of Don Julian, a more than 30 years old man and a bachelor. He is engaged to Esperanza but still have feelings to Julia Salas. • Esperanza - wife of Alfredo Salazar. She is a homely woman, literal minded and intensely acquisitive and with uniformly beauty. • Julia Salas - sister-in-law of Judge Del Valle; the other woman of Alfredo that remained single in her life MINOR • Don Julian - father of Alfredo Salazar and Carmen Carmen - sister of Alfredo Salas. • Judge Del Valle - brother-in-law of Julia Salas. • Donna Adella - sister of Julia Salas. • Calixta - note-carrier of Alfredo Salazar and Esperanza. • Dionisio - husband of Donna Adella. • Vicente - husband of Carmen. • Brigida Samuy - She is the illusive woman whose Alfredo is looking for.

AUTHOR: Paz Marquez-Benitez Genre: Realistic Fiction, Philosophical, Romance, Angst, Life Theme: Man Vs. Society SETTING • House of Don Julian • House of Judge Del Valle • House of Don Julian in Tanda • Church of Our Lady of Sorrow • Calle Real • Sta. Cruz particularly in Calle Luz TIME Early 1900's Lenten Season

RESOLUTION

During all his years of married life he had come to a closure after meeting Julia once again. He realized that the answers to his ‘what-if’ questions hardly interest him anymore; he understood that he had been looking up into a dead star all along.

FALLING ACTION The wedding happened, thus, he chose not to break his word and avoid social humiliation. A few years later, his job called for him to go to the town where Julia, who is still unmarried, lives.

Characters

Scent of Apples by: Bienvenido N. Santos

Mr. Bienvenido Santos Celestino Fabia - Fellow Filipino who owns an apple farm and has been away from the Philippines for over 20 years. Ruth Fabia - Wife of Mr. Fabia Roger Fabia - Son of Mr. Fabia Setting The story happened in Kalamazoo, Michigan and it was on October The main setting was in Mr. Fabia's place, wherein he invited Mr. Santos to come by and eat dinner.

PLOT OF THE STORY Exposition The story opened with a brief introduction of where the author was.The author, Mr. Santos, was asked to speak before an audience. He met Celestino Fabia ("just a Filipino farmer" as he called himself) the night Mr. Santos left his hotel. Rising Action In the course of the Mr. Santos' discussion, Mr. Fabia asked how the Filipino women of today were differ from the stereotype he was familiar with. After the lecture, Mr. Fabia told Mr. Santos about his farm and his family and invited him over to his house. This story was written during the Rebirth of Freedom. Climax They finally arrived in the farm, the fragrance of apples diffusing all over the place. Falling Actions Mr. Santos finally met the wife of Mr. Fabia and his son, Roger. They invited Mr. Santos to their humble home and catered him with food.The author found a picture of an anonymous Filipina wearing a traditional costume - another manifestation of how Mr. Fabia's nostalgia is. Conclusion He bade farewell to the family and Mr. Fabia took him back to the hotel. He offered to send news to his family when he got back to the Philippines but Mr. Fabia refused, saying that they might have already forgotten him.They shook each other's hand and said goodbye.

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Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos' writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States. The short story "Scent of Apples" is one out of many small pieces of personal events that Santos has experienced. This story was written during the Rebirth of Freedom.

Theme of the Story  "The Scent of Apples" is about how first generation immigrants experience a sense of loss and seek connection to their past life even if they had created a life for them in the new world.  This piece focuses on the main theme of immigrant blues and how Philippine Americans fell left out of American culture and how they miss being part of the culture in the Philippines.

The Teacher

PLOT 1. EXPOSITION  The teacher asks his friend to read the composition written by a student in secondary four. The teacher was angry because the student makes a lot of grammar and tense mistakes. 2. RISING ACTION  The student try to tell her teacher about her problem through a message (composition),but the teacher can’t understand about what she want to tell him.  The teacher is impatient with his student’s grammar mistakes and makes him want to resign. 3. FALLING ACTION  His friend’s colleague try to calm down him.(all student is same, they just do the grammar mistakes even pre-university’s students) 4. RESOLUTION  Tan Geok Peng commits suicide.  The teacher was regret with his attitude which playing an irresponsible teacher.

By: Catherine Lim

CHARACTER Main (The Teacher) 1. Big mouth  Always tell to his friends about his student’s weakness. 2. Anger  Always angry with his student’s grammar mistake. Minor Character (Teacher’s Friend) 1. Good listener  Always listen to his friend’s problem.  Try to understand the problem.  Try to have a solution for his friend’s problem. Static Character (Tan Geok Peng) 1. Weak  Always do the same mistakes when the teacher ask her to write an essay. 2. Shy and timid girl  She never told her problems to her teacher. Dynamic Character (Tan’s Father) 1. Heartless  Always beat Tan and her mother when he drunk.  When he is in good mood, he allowed Tan to continue her study.

SETTING Physical setting 1. At the staffroom  Where the teachers doing their work.  Tan Geok Peng’s teacher does the correcting composition exercises by his students. 2. Cake stall  Tan Geok Peng’s father sells cakes to earn money. 3. Eleventh floor  Tan Geok Peng jumped down from there. Social setting  The teacher that did not bordered about his students in detail and just saw the weakness by the tenses mistakes that have been done by Tan Geok Peng.  The father that irresponsible with his wife and children. Ask his daughter to quick from study and helps him to sell the cakes.

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The teacher that was not sensitive with his students’ problems. The teacher did not go through his student’s condition. He just saw the tenses mistakes that his student did. He did not go through to the story that had been telling by Tan Geok Peng that storied about her problem.

Excerpt from GREEN SANCTUARY (Novel)

If a bus stopped in Pikit, they said the Moros there deflated the tires with their wooden clubs, smashed the lights and windshields to smithereens. Then marketgoers and storeowners stripped off its wooden parts and burned them for fuel; the townsfolk dismantled the chassis and engine and sold the metal by the kilo in Cotabato City over a hundred kilometers away. Only the skeleton of the bus was left on the road to rust and corrode under the sun and rain, and for the naked children to play all sorts of games on. But what the children loved to play most was being grown-ups, replaying the parts the townsfolk had in dismantling the bus. Up along the road and just before the market-place, an abandoned truck chassis, or what was left of it, was discovered with vines and climbers whose tentacles wound round and intertwined with its steel and iron frame. They grow thick and luxuriously green, and here and there flowers bloomed as though on an abandoned and forgotten grave. The flowers were orange, yellow, and red, and early in the morning their tiny petals glistened under beads of dew and were wonderful to look at. Long before the Cerdeza Surveying Company men came, they said the bus has been hastily abandoned on the highway ehen a datu from Matalam ordered the Christians down and raked the side of the bus with bullets. The automatic carbine went tat-tat-tat-tat and made holes on the side of the bus as big as thumbs. A four-year-old child abandoned by the mother died there on the bus, his head blown off and his scalp plastered on the wooden backrest of his chair.

By: Antonio Enriquez

Pikit was the oldest town in Cotabato, theys aid. And the townsfolk said too that hundreds of years ago, a Spanish had dropped anchor in the Pulanggi River, and while the awed Moros watched, Spanish soldiers in iron clothes (mail coat) came down her gangplank and discovered the town behind the cogon grass and under the great balete trees. The Spanish soldiers’ faces were white as paper, with straight high noses and glistening, unstained teeth which bore no reddish stain from the juice of mamà (betel nut chew). The Spaniards apparently had not stayed long in Pikit, for Alberto had not seen a mestizo or mestiza in town since his arrival some three months ago. This was not at all like his hometown, Zamboanga, where the Spanish conquistadores (and licentious friars) had sown so many seeds that mestizas bloomed wildly like bougainvillaea flowers, and the old people spoke fluent Castellano and the streets were named after saints of places in Spain. Not so long ago the commercial bbus never stopped in Pikit; not even long enough for its cloud of dust to settle back on the highway. Instead, it disgorged its passengers at the nearest small village, and they had two walk about two kilometers to the town proper carrying their baggage on their backs. Those who refused to get off, or asked for a fare refund, were kicked off the bus by the conductors, divested of their luggage or cargo, and were forced to walk barefoot to nearest barrio where they brought slippers or rubber shoes.

There was no place to go in Pikit after nightfall, and the one movie house opened in the morning and closed in the afternoon. It showed double program war features. In one film, Fernando Poe Jr., the Golden Boy of action pictures, with automatic machine gun, mowed down hundreds of Moros on a slope. Upon seeing this massacre on the picture screen, Datu Mantel stood up from his wooden bench, drew his .45-calibre gun, and promptly perforated the picture screen. “There!” he said to no one in particular, “you are now dead!” Everyone scampered for safety, and the movie house owner stopped showing such films again in Pikit; thereafter, they said, he showed only American war movies. When the fans of Fernando Poe Jr. demanded to see their movie idol, the owner of the movie house said they all knew he was shot dead by Datu Mantel and now lay buried in the hills of Pulanggi.

At six o’clock every evening, the sari-sari stores and carinderias along the road were closed and barred with wooden boards. No one walked there after this hour, and the policeman on beat changed his uniform into civilian clothes and drank with his buddies in one of the tuba stores far from the town proper. And then the rats and tomcats emerged from their hidin, and the dogs scavenged the garbage dumps for crumbs. Only Datu Mantel, they said, walked the main road, his .45-calibre handgun hanging low from his hip. One night a drunkard lost his way home, and on the main street Datu Mantel shot him neatly between his eyes. Like the bodies of other murdered men, the drunkard’s corpse was not found the next day, and the chief of police did not send a policeman after the datu. Because one evening, a week before the murder, while the two of them were drinking in a bar, Datu Mantel slapped him acrossed the face and challenged him to draw his gun. The chief of police knew that with one hand Datu Mantel could draw and at the same time cock his .45-calibre handgun while it was still in its holster, as though it were a toy gun. Said Datu Mantel to the chief of police, “Now I am the chief of police.” That was how, they said Datu Mantel became unofficially the chief of police of Pikit without an appointment from the governor. And the next day, the townsfolk saw him wearing the khaki uniform of the police hief, although he never wore a badge.

THE LOVE OF MAGDALENA JALANDONI By: Winton Lou G. Ynion

WRONG NUMBER By: Lee Martin

Essential Matters By: Li Li

Five Brothers, One Mother Taurus St., Cinco Hermanos, Marikina (Excerpt from MANY MANSIONS by Exie

Esperanza-symbolizes hope and devotion, and being manipulated by the regenerative virtue of society.

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The title itself also symbolizes how immigrants from the Philippines took low paying jobs in America. Such as being an agricultural worker who works on farms or fields. The scent of apples reflects this as the workers smell the fruit.

Symbols Scent of apples - nostalgia, exile, sadness, and memories. "How many times did lonely mind take unpleasant detours away from the familiar winding lanes towards home for fear of this, the remembered hurt, the long lost youth, the grim shadows of the years; how many times indeed, only the exile knows."

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Dead Star- symbolizes Alfredo’s dream of romance with Julia. He thought there was love, but it was just like a star whose shine could actually be the leftover traveling light. Alfredo-symbolizes the confusion and flaws of human.

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