Love in the Cornhusks

REPORTED BY GROUP 4

Contreras Sumague

Durante Tanqueco

Montecer Vergara

Sanchez

THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW

POINT OF VIEW

Tinang found a Kamansi tree where she could stay for a while to read the letter. She placed her baby in a heap of the cornhusks. At first, she thought that the letter was from her sister, but she was surprised when she found out that the letter was from Amado. Amado told Tinang about his reason to leave in Señor's house and his love to her.

CLIMAX

PLOT

Tinang suddenly remembered her past before marrying Inggo. Then, she saw snake approaching her baby, so she immediately rush to get her baby and check if there's bite marks.

Señora informed her about the letter that was sent for her in the Pharmacy (it is also a Post Office). She immediately rush to the Pharmacy before he went home.

FALLING ACTION

RISING ACTION

Tinang visited her former Señora together with her baby. They talked about marriage, how Amado left, and the baptismal of her baby.

Tinang went home together with her baby and she didn't notice that the letter fell in the cornhusks. Tinang chose his family with Inggo rather than Amado. She forget Amado just like what she did in the letter

EXPOSITION

RESOLUTION

CONFLICT

SELF

MAN

MAN

Love in the Cornhusks

Love in the

Cornhusks

THEME

ANALYSIS

FEMINISM

The author used

Point of View / Approach.

MORAL LESSON

LOVE

&

DECISION MAKING

TRUE LOVE

is really worth waiting for. If you are willing to

wait for the love of your life, everything will be worth it in the end with no regrets in life.

CRITICAL THINKING

In life, we should always make

in every decisions that we will make.

AUTHOR

Aida Rivera Ford

ACHIEVEMENTS

AWARDS

1949

1954

born in Jolo, Sulu

editor of the first two issues of Sands and Coral, the literary magazine of Siliman University

She taught at the University of Mindanao and Ateneo de Davao University where she was the Humanities Division Chairperson for 11 years.

director of two NCCA Mindanao-wide Creative Writing Workshops and two UP National Writers Workshops

Datu Bago

Award

in Davao

UP ICW

named her National Fellow for fiction

Phil.

Government

Parangal for

Writers of the

post-war

years

Gawad CCP Awardee for the essay in English

Outstanding Silimanian Award

She graduated as cum laude with an AB degree, major in English.

finished MA in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and won the prestigious Jules and Avery Hopwood for fiction.

She founded the first school of Fine Arts in Mindanao - the Learning Center of the Arts, now known as the Ford Academy of the Arts.

President of the Mindanao Foundation for Culture and the Arts

1980

1982

1984

1991

1993

1997

SETTINGS

PLACE

- Barrio in Mindanao

- 60's to 70's

- Spanish Culture

TIME

CULTURE

CHARACTERS

the protagonist and wife of Inggo

the driver of the tractors in the field and former lover of Tinang.

the former employer of Tinang. She is also the wife of Señor and the mother of Tito.

the former employer of Amado. He is also the husband of Señora and the father of Tito

Constantina "Tinang" Tirol

amado galauran

Señora

Señor

Tito

inggo

bagobito

the son of Señor and Señora

a Bagobo who owns two hectares land. He is also the husband of Tinang.

Tinang's first baby (son).