Phil Lit
Saint Paul University Philippines
Tuguegarao City, 3500
Philippine Literature
(May Day Eve)
By:
Mary Joy V. Alcon
I. Introduction
II. The Author’s Background
A. Author’s Life
B. Works and Writings
III. The Literary Analysis
A. Setting
B. Characters and Characteristics
C. Plot
D. POV
IV. References
Introduction: Filipino short stories are very essential to every Filipino in a way of reflecting one’s experience to visualize the mystery of life and be able to compromise the situation with regards to what struggling situation Filipino’s are facing. Short stories help the Filipinos to better understand the different perspective of a writer and on how the writers be able to touch every target audiences with their masterpieces. Every authors has the challenge on how they keep the readers substantially understand their stories without getting bored about the topic, and so as they say “they must keep the fire burning on every piece they open to the public” ( Harry F. 2003). Also authors must have always something new to offer, something that has never been heard nor read by the readers out there, and so the researcher pick “May Day Eve” by Nick Joaquin, a short story with full of mystery and moral lesson with extraordinary twist in which it was rarely portray nowadays. "May Day Eve" is a short story written by Filipino National Artist Nick Joaquin. Written after World War II, it became one of Joaquin 's “signature stories” that became a classic in Philippine literature in English. Together with Joaquin 's other stories like The Mass of St. Sylvester, Doña Jeronima and Candido’s Apocalypse, May Day Eve utilized the theme of "magic realism" long before the genre was made a trend in Latin American novels. Published in 1947, it is a story originally intended for adult readers, but has later become a required and important reading material for Filipino students.The theme of the story is a gothic fiction with realism
Tuguegarao City, 3500
Philippine Literature
(May Day Eve)
By:
Mary Joy V. Alcon
I. Introduction
II. The Author’s Background
A. Author’s Life
B. Works and Writings
III. The Literary Analysis
A. Setting
B. Characters and Characteristics
C. Plot
D. POV
IV. References
Introduction: Filipino short stories are very essential to every Filipino in a way of reflecting one’s experience to visualize the mystery of life and be able to compromise the situation with regards to what struggling situation Filipino’s are facing. Short stories help the Filipinos to better understand the different perspective of a writer and on how the writers be able to touch every target audiences with their masterpieces. Every authors has the challenge on how they keep the readers substantially understand their stories without getting bored about the topic, and so as they say “they must keep the fire burning on every piece they open to the public” ( Harry F. 2003). Also authors must have always something new to offer, something that has never been heard nor read by the readers out there, and so the researcher pick “May Day Eve” by Nick Joaquin, a short story with full of mystery and moral lesson with extraordinary twist in which it was rarely portray nowadays. "May Day Eve" is a short story written by Filipino National Artist Nick Joaquin. Written after World War II, it became one of Joaquin 's “signature stories” that became a classic in Philippine literature in English. Together with Joaquin 's other stories like The Mass of St. Sylvester, Doña Jeronima and Candido’s Apocalypse, May Day Eve utilized the theme of "magic realism" long before the genre was made a trend in Latin American novels. Published in 1947, it is a story originally intended for adult readers, but has later become a required and important reading material for Filipino students.The theme of the story is a gothic fiction with realism
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