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BOOK REPORT IN PHILIPPINE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
(Watch in the Night by: Edilberto K. Tiempo)
Ricajel G. Cezar
II-20 AB/BSE LITERATURE
October 17, 2013
Prof. Rosarito Suatengco
I. SUMMARY
Main Events
1.) All the army is gathered into the chapel to attend the service lead by Camacho. While Camacho was giving his sermon, the mind of Cortes was flying.
2.) Cortes remembered his ministry in Cawayan and reminiscing on how the people refuse to respect him.
3.) In Cawayan, he met this girl named Cecilia “Cely” whom he started to love.
4.) Cortes and Corporal Carreon, his fellow army went to the market for some provisions. In there, they met Japanese soldiers who want a girl in exchange for money but instead of giving them the girl, they planned to ambush those Japanese.
5.) Cortes tried to keep calm on what he is hearing from fellow army men but later he shoot the four men because he can no longer stand the treatment of those army in him and they are traitors on their own country. After what Cortes has done, he did not felt sorry, but he said that he will surrender to the Japanese.
6.) Next day, when Cortes and some army men are departing to go to the Japanese to surrender Cortes, some Japanese airplanes attacked the boat and Corporal Carreon died but Cortes survived.
7.) Some fishermen going to the fish corral found Cortes on the beach. Mario ---- also a soldier bring him into their house. In there he helped the family in plowing the field, when suddenly he heard an airplane and has a letter from the Japanese headquarters.
8.) Early in the morning about two weeks after Mario’s return the countryside was awakened by the warning that the Japs hiding and firing in the direction of their headquarters. They are so many killed civilians including the uncle of Mario, Iyo