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To browse Academia. Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. Mia Balot. A short summary of this paper. He is well known for writing short stories and novels in English Language.
Summer Solstice is a story about a women which all shows and conveys superiority. From the story there is called ritual performed by women during classical period. The focus of the story is about the power of women. The story starts when the family is enjoying the days of the St. This makes her leave abruptly and have a discussion with her husband the coming night.
Lupeng secretly found herself intrigued by the attention of Guido; she felt that he was correct in saying that women should be ravished and men should adore them. This causes her to participate in the last night of the festival, which is the Tatarin ritual. Paeng goes with her and tries to drag her back once the dancing begun, but she runs from him to the women. He tries to take her back but the women in the crowds beat him out, leaving him helpless.
As the two return home, Paeng says he must whip his wife because he loves her and feels that she needs to be put in her place. To this, she shouts and says she wants to be adored, not respected and orders him to kiss her feet. Setting — Since the story takes place in the s, women were repressed and felt shut in.
Lupeng may seem to be happy in her routine life, but she also feels angry. The Mass of St. Sylvestre of an iconic church with the celebration of the image of St. Sylvestre every New Year. It is more of a historical narrative as it describes the traditional ways of honoring the saint dedicated to the largest church in the city of Manila. It is seen through the eyes of an American footsoldier gallivanting in the Walled City at this time of the year, only to realized that all the grandness that he has witnessed turned out to be an illusion.
The Summer Solstice is the local tale of The Tadtarin , and how it affects the characters involved in the story, particularly the women. Dona Lupe, a meek and subversive wife, finds her strength due to the Tadtarin, managing to overpower her husband.
This feast is connoted with the emasculation of men and the empowerment of women. At the time, the latter is looked down upon because Spanish Philippines was strongly patriarchal. Thus, this festival provides women the chance to become more aggressive, and independent. The Order of Melkizedek is a lengthy story about the strange workings of an underground society headed by Melkizedek, who is believed to be hundreds of years old.
In a long, twisting narrative, the characters are exhausted with tiring clues and slow investigations intertwined with historical facts, mostly tied with Intramuros, its churches and its convents. It was the first ever book that I read from our National Artist and I think I know why he is, because he has a very different stories from other author. He gives readers that somewhat horror or thriller feeling at some point of the book and the fact that his tackling a very sensitive topic which is faith or religion that was already a big thing to do.
Through this book also, he made readers informed of how was it like before or during s, like what they believe in traditions and such culture they had which I was unaware of though it maybe fictional.
Still, his book was informative piece of art and creatively done. Three very Filipino stories. All three very different -- one more a recollection, one about folkloric religion celebrating the sexual woman, and lastly a mini-novella that explores the old and the new of Filipino belief systems. Full review on my blog Guiltless Reading. First read: Oct , Reread: December Reread: Jan Feb 2 Aloysiusi Lionel. You are commenting using your WordPress.
You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content The Tatarin, or otherwise known as the Tadtarin, was a three day festival that celebrated a ritual of fertility. Share this: Twitter Facebook.
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