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THE CENTIPEDEAuthor: Rony V. Diaz is an award-winningFilipinowriter. He has won severalPalancaAwards.He joined the paper in 2001 as executive director. He eventually became publisher and president of the Manila Times School of Journalism. Hehas taught English at U.P. Diliman and has worked for the Philippinegovernment as a Foreign Service corp Born inCabanatuan, Nueva Ecija butmoved toMindoroafter the bombing of Clark Field.
Character:
Author – A boy who narrates the story and the main cast of the stories wholove their Pets.Delia – Sister of the author who hate the Pets of his brother.Eddie - A man who help in their house.Berto - a man who gave the centipede.Biryuk – A pet dog of the author.
Settings:
In the house and in the ground.
Plot:
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When he saw her sister beating his dog.
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Few Imaginations During the time his father and the author huntedsome animals in the forest.
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When her sister told Eddie and Berto to kill his dog.
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When the time Berto give the Centipede to the author.
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When the time the author express his feeling to her sister.
Climax:
When the time the author express his feelings to her sister and her sister did not move, and she look his brother while crying and voice out all the badthings that can do her sister to his pets.
Conflict:
Man’s against Man--That’s because there are a problem the author and his sister.
Denouement:
When the time Delia kill the centipede of the author, and the author express his feelings.
The Mats
Francisco Arcellana
I find this story very dramatic and very moving although I felt it on the later part of the story near the ending. I thought it was just another narrative story where scenes were just plainly stated and thing alike. Everything was at ease on the first parts. Happy family was presented. But of course, it appeared as a rather typical story of a Filipino family in a Spanish time. The family was in a middle-class. “Mats” were a normal pasalubong in Filipinos when someone was to go somewhere. Mr.