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The Virgin by Kerima Polotan

This document summarizes three different stories: 1) "The Virgin" by Kerima Polotan, which focuses on two main characters - Miss Mijares, a 34-year-old spinster, and the carpenter. The story explores Miss Mijares' virginity and lack of relationship experience. 2) "An Pulong Nga KUAN" by Eduardo Makabenta, a poem about the richness of the Waray language. 3) "Freedom is Dangerous" by Salvador P. Lopez, which the assistant believes discusses how literature allows writers to invite reader response and interaction, resulting in struggles over texts.

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The Virgin by Kerima Polotan

This document summarizes three different stories: 1) "The Virgin" by Kerima Polotan, which focuses on two main characters - Miss Mijares, a 34-year-old spinster, and the carpenter. The story explores Miss Mijares' virginity and lack of relationship experience. 2) "An Pulong Nga KUAN" by Eduardo Makabenta, a poem about the richness of the Waray language. 3) "Freedom is Dangerous" by Salvador P. Lopez, which the assistant believes discusses how literature allows writers to invite reader response and interaction, resulting in struggles over texts.

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The Virgin by kerima Polotan

A. Finding Love
B. Characters
Miss Mijares T - is a dutiful daughter, sacrificing herself, in this case, for a sick mother, and becoming a
spinster, a pathetic figure, her sternness of manner and abruptness of speech, disguise for an aching
loneliness. Referring to her as "Miss Mijares" underlines her primness, as well as her distance from the
carpenter. She is slim and frail-looking, which contrasts with the carpenter's physical strength and size

The Carpenter - the carpenter has a certain grace, poise, confidence "walking with an economy of
movement, graveful and light, a man who knew his body and used it well", which comes from being easy
in his skin, which Miss Mijares, decidedly, is not.

Ato - Ato is Miss Mijares' foreman.

C. a short narrative that is centered on two characters. Miss Mijares and The Carpenter. The rubric “The
Virgin” reflects the topic virginity which is an of import and precious value for Filipinos. A Filipina should
be proud to hold maintained her virginity but in the instance of the thirty-four-year-old Miss Mijares she
is ashamed of it. In her 34 old ages of being had ne’er been committed in a relationship. When she was
younger there had been other things to make and she ne’er put love on top of her precedence. Miss
Mijares’ childhood experiences and responsibilities affected her personality.

An Pulong Nga KUAN by eduardo makabenta - I know this poem succeeded in one
of its functions- to entertain. Makabenta’s poem tips off on how rich the Waray language is that even in
difficulty of groping an appropriate word for something, we have an immediate fill in, the word “kuan”.

Love, yes love ̶ primarily to the language. Waray, one of the major languages spoken in this country,
deserves a love from its own people. We are deprived with this love because of our (mid)education. It is
about time to regain our language’s grandeur- the language that communicates to the people around us
about the feelings, desires, hopes, and identity of us Warays. By loving our language, we assure that
Waray language interminably breathes.

Freedom is Dangerous by salvador P. Lopez - Lopez believes that the text


empowers writers by allowing them not only to depict the world but to invite readers to respond,
resulting in interaction and struggle between individuals and tests, which underlies the discursive quality
of literature and is expressed in his response to the consensus ruling the arts.

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