Region 1URBANA AT FELISA

MODESTRO DE CASTRO

Summary Of The Story

Paombong with the people living that has a good value and

characteristics , they also lived with great Cathicism believing of God . Its author used the epistolary style

wherein a series of thirty-four letters , members of a family in Paombong , Bulacan gave each

other advice on the ideal conduct and bahavior expected of a middle-

class and Christian family .

Thus in his letters to her younger siblings Felisa and Honesto, who

remained in Paombong. Urbna , who left for Manila to study , wrote not only

of the need to follow the values and norms found in Christian teaching , but as importantly , to observe the proper mode of conduct as one dealt of people

in soceity. Felisa and Honesto , a younger siblings of Urbana who had

left them because Urbana had to study in Manila .

Felisa wrote a letter to Urbana because his brother Honesto decided

to stop going to school. Urbana received a letter from Felisa then

Urbana also wrote a letter as a reply to Felisa because Urbana was so worried about on the situation of

Honesto. Felisa wrote again a letter for her sister inorder for her to know that Honesto is going to continue his study again and Urbana was so happy

because his brother continue to his study as what she is now studying in

Manila .

By: Nick Jaoquin(2012-NCR)

THE HOUASE OF ZAPOTE STREET

Quijano de Manila is the pen name of Nick Joaquin. He started writing before the war and his first story, “Three Generations” has been hailed as masterpiece. He has been recipient

of almost all the prestigious awards in literature and the arts, including the National

Artist Award for Literature in1976. He was also conferred, among other recognitions, the

Republic Cultural Heritage Award for Literature in 1961, the Journalist of the Year

Award in the early 1960s, the Book of the Year Award in 1979 for his Almanac for

Manileños,the national Book award for several of his works, the Ramon Magsaysay Award for

Journalism, Literature, Creative Communication Arts (the Asian counterpart of Nobel Prize) in 1996, and the Tanglaw ng Lahi

Award in 1997.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

It is about a man who married a woman who was living with her father on a house on

Zapote Street. The girl name Lydia Cabading an internship student who meet the doctor of the clinic named Leonardo Quitangon, they

became friends and dating. After Lydia's internship Leonardo became a regular visitor at their house. And also Leonardo help her to review her board exam. After Lydia passed the

board exam, Leonardo and Lydia ask permission to Pablo the father Lydia. That

Leonardo wants to marry Lydia. Pablo agree but there a condition first is that wedding to be lavish and second is must pay 5000 pesos for the dowry and Leonardo answered he can

afford a big wedding but not a big dowry.

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But Pablo declared no dowry no wedding. The next day Leonardo came back and bring the dowry but Pablo tell him that they could not pear to be separated from her daughter. And

Leonardo agreed. Few months letter Leonardo and Lydia. Leonardo realized why his wife was always worried an few day later Lydia's father have been over protection to her he was very strict with his house rules which cause the

trials of their relationship. And Leonardo did not take Lydia's father never stop separating

them apart he use his wife so that his daughter will back to his house. And they

returned to the house because his father In-law requested to see her daughter again..

When Lydia go back to her father anything went wrong. Pablo decided to get gun and killed Lydia and Leonardo

and unfortunately, the couple were murdered inside the house by their own father. After what happen there father then committed suicide after killing

son-in-law and his very own daughter.

By: Alejandro RocesRegion !

MY BROTHER’S PECULIAR CHICKEN

Alejandro Reyes Roces (13 July 1924 – 23 May 2011) was a Filipino author, essayist, dramatist and a National Artist of the Philippines for literature. He served as 

Secretary of Education from 1961 to 1965, during the term of Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal.

Noted for his short stories, the Manila-born Roces was married to Irene Yorston Viola (granddaughter of Maximo Viola), with whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth Roces-

Pedrosa. Anding attended elementary and high school at the Ateneo de Manila University, before moving to the University of Arizona and then 

Arizona State University for his tertiary education. He graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts and, not long after, attained his M.A. from Far Eastern University back in the Philippines.[1] He has since received honorary doctorates from Tokyo University, Baguio's St. Louis University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, and the

Ateneo de Manila University. Roces was a captain in the Marking’s Guerilla during World War II and a columnist in Philippine dailies such as the Manila Chronicle and

the Manila Times. He was previously President of the Manila Bulletin and of the CAP College Foundation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

During his freshman year in the University of Arizona, Roces won Best Short Story for We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers. Another of his stories, My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken, was

listed as Martha Foley’s Best American Stories among the most distinctive for years 1948 and 1951. Roces did not only focus on short stories alone, as he also published books

such as Of Cocks and Kites (1959), Fiesta (1980), and Something to Crow About (2005). Of Cocks and Kites earned him the reputation as the country's best writer of humorous

stories. It also contained the widely anthologized piece “My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken”. Fiesta, is a book of essays, featuring folk festivals such as Ermita's Bota Flores, Aklan's

Ati-atihan, and Naga's Peñafrancia.Something to Crow About, on the other hand, is a collection of Roces’ short stories. The book has been recently brought to life by a critically acclaimed play of the same title; the staged version of Something to Crow About is the first Filipino zarzuela in English. This

modern zarzuela tells the story of a poor cockfighter named Kiko who, to his wife's chagrin, pays more attention to the roosters than to her. Later in the story, a conflict

ensues between Kiko’s brother Leandro and Golem, the son of a wealthy and powerful man, over the affections of a beautiful woman named Luningning. The resolution? A

cockfight, of course. Something to Crow About won the Aliw Award for Best Musical and Best Director for a Musical Production. It also had a run off-Broadway at the 

La Mama Theater in New York.Through the years, Roces has won numerous awards, including the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award, the Diwa ng Lahi Award, the Tanging Parangal of the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining, and the Rizal Pro Patria Award. He was finally bestowed the honor as National

Artist of Literature on the 25th of June 2003

The story was about the weird chicken which Kiko and his bROther found. They coudn't tell whether it is a hen or a rooster. They keep on arguing to each other because Kiko insist that the chicken is a rooster for they saw it on the field fighting another chicken. But his brother is not convinced for

the chicken has no comb or wattles, both disagree to one another.

They began to ask their mother and father, even the people on their village like Tasio and Mr. Cruz. But all of them couldn't tell whether it's a hen or a

rooster. And they also thought that it was a "binabae".

So instead, they decide to bring it into the cockpit and make it fight to a rooster. But during the fight there is a turn of events, things gone different for what they have expected. A lovesick expression came into the rooster's eye, instead of fighting, the rooster began to do some love dance but the peculiar chicken suddenly stub its spur into the rooster and the fight is

over. The brothers couldn't believe what they had saw.

Kiko thinks he convinced his brother that the chicken is a rooster, but he chicken act something strange. It began to quiver, and egg came out and

drop into his brothers hand.

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