another week has passed and we have finished another two short stories by Francisco Arcellana. In this two stories we will analyze which is more realistic. Is it "The Mats" or "Divide by two".
For me this two stories is about conflicts. just like "The Mats", for me the conflict in this story is when the father opened up the topic about their dead daughters and suddenly he get's mad after reminding himself and his family about that. Second is "Divide by Two", the conflict in here is the couple here i think has a past to each other.
Well the most realistic in this story is "The Mats", because its just normal for filipino family to remember their dead relatives or member of the family. because some of the filipinos today still do that routin that even if one of their family member is dead they still respect the place or stuffs that he/she left.
While "Divide by Two" is least realistic, because the scene of this story is usually seen in a television novel or drama. because it is such a small problem two get mad about the blocks. well as some of class realize that maybe they just used the blocks in order to open their conflict that has passed a long long time ago. To be honest this story is still not clear to me, maybe i just need to read again until i understand the story well.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
filipino traits?
After reading two short stories in LITFILI, now it's time to go back analyze each stories. this short stories were written by famous authors, while we read the stories we have seen some filipino traits in each of the short stories.
First was "My father goes to court" in this story we have seen a typical filipino trait that whatever problem comes to a filipino, he/she just smile or laugh at their problem, even if the problem is so bad some of us just don't mind it very much. Another thing is some of filipino people have this kind of trait which is called "pilosopo", they sometimes joke on peoples quote or saying, maybe because they don't know it or just pretending that they know it.
Second is "How my brother Leon brought home a wife", in this story i have seen one trait that filipino people is sometimes paranoid, because in this story the father of leon tested her wife maria if she could adapt the environment in the province, because they think manila girls are so vain and not use to the environment of the province, but the father was wrong of his thoughts about the girl.
so now my question is, why some of the filipinos have this negative traits, well some of the traits that was seen on the two short stories is still existing now a days and its getting a lot more. like the time, some of us comes after an hour. example is the agenda is 9am but people will come by 10am, it's always one hour late. another is filipino students like me, even if we have tons of work to do, it's like that we don't worry much about it, we usually like to cram always, and sometimes when cramming that's the time that i could think clearly.
First was "My father goes to court" in this story we have seen a typical filipino trait that whatever problem comes to a filipino, he/she just smile or laugh at their problem, even if the problem is so bad some of us just don't mind it very much. Another thing is some of filipino people have this kind of trait which is called "pilosopo", they sometimes joke on peoples quote or saying, maybe because they don't know it or just pretending that they know it.
Second is "How my brother Leon brought home a wife", in this story i have seen one trait that filipino people is sometimes paranoid, because in this story the father of leon tested her wife maria if she could adapt the environment in the province, because they think manila girls are so vain and not use to the environment of the province, but the father was wrong of his thoughts about the girl.
so now my question is, why some of the filipinos have this negative traits, well some of the traits that was seen on the two short stories is still existing now a days and its getting a lot more. like the time, some of us comes after an hour. example is the agenda is 9am but people will come by 10am, it's always one hour late. another is filipino students like me, even if we have tons of work to do, it's like that we don't worry much about it, we usually like to cram always, and sometimes when cramming that's the time that i could think clearly.
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