In partial fulfillment of the requirements in Philippine literature
Submitted to:
Ms. Maridel P. Santos
Submitted By:
Cindy G. Segovia
BSIT, BT701A
I. Title: House on zapote street
Pablo Cabading was very strict to his daughter Lydia because the father was sexually aggressive his daughter. this statement was supported in the story that Lydia and his husband Leonardo didn’t have a perfect honeymoon. Lydia always sleep with her mother at night due to the many alibis of her father Pablo. The wife of Pablo Cabading was an underdog to his husband Pablo Cabading.
II. 1. Author: Nick Joaquin
2. Biography:
Nick Joaquin, by name of Nicomedes Joaquin (born May 4, 1917, Paco, Manila, Phil.—died April 29, 2004, San Juan, Phil.), Filipino novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and biographer whose works present the diverse heritage of the Filipino people.
Joaquin was awarded a scholarship to the Dominican monastery in Hong Kong after publication of his essay “La Naval de Manila” (1943), a description of Manila’s fabled resistance to 17th-century Dutch invaders. After World War II he traveled to the United States, Mexico, and Spain, later serving as a cultural representative of the Philippines to Taiwan, Cuba, and China.
III. Character Analysis:
Lydia Cabading
Pablo Cabading
Leonardo Quitangon
Nonilo Quitangon
IV. Description of the Setting:
Zapote Street
V. Plot:
Beginning: It is about a man who married a woman who was living with her father on a house on Zapote Street. The couple spent their first months in that house.
Conflict: The man then realized why his wife was always worried. His father-in-law was a policeman. He was very strict with his house rules. The man couldn't take it so he left the house.
Climax: One day, his wife called him to pick her up from that house. He successfully escaped his wife from her father. But they