Setting: house of Don Julian, House of Judge del Valle, Tanda where there are coconut plantation and a beach, Church of Our Lady of Sorrow, Calle Real, Calle Luz in Sta. Cruz (hometown of Julia)
Time of the story: Lenten Season.
Characters: Alfredo Salazar, Esperanza, Julia Salas, Don Julian, Carmen, Judge del Valle, Donna Adella, Calixta, Dionisio, Vicente, Brigida Samuy.
Theme: forbidden love
Moral: It was expectations and reality. We expect that there’s always a happy ever after just like in fairy tales. But then, in reality, happy ending is not meant for all of us, still there’s the big possibility that we could experience failures in life. Our destiny is not all about our dream but it is how we manage to follow our heart and to have courage to do anything to our love ones.
Denouement: Alfredo chose Esperanza instead of Julia Salas, the woman that he loves the most.
Conflict: The conflict in the story was Alfredo’s commitment to Ezperanza and his infidelity. Alfredo got engage to Esperanza but unknowingly he was not deeply in love with her. And he fall in love with another woman, Julia Salas, even he was engaged.
Climax: I think it is when Julia Salas knew that Alfredo was engaged and when he asked her to come to his wedding.
Exposition: I think it begins when he fall in love with Julia yet he was engaged to Esperanza, the story flows on what will Alfredo do in his situation.
Sunset
Setting: Baranco, shoe shop.
Characters: The man (cobbler) , the woman (maid), senorita, pepe (senorita’s brother)
Theme: Filipino’s marriage traditions.
Moral:
Denouement:
Conflict: The man bought a surprise for the woman but she already had like that. Then she told that she already have her new job and she was about to leave the man.
Climax: it is when the man was offered a money by the senorita but he did not take it and when the woman took the job that senorita was offering her. And when the woman decided to leave the man.
Exposition:
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