AUTHOR Amador T. Daguio
SETTING
• In one of the mountainous provinces in the northern Philippines
CHARACTERS
• Awiyao
• Alumnay
• Madulimay
PLOT
The Wedding Dance by Amador T. Daguio is about Awiyao and Lumnay, a long married couple from the Mountain tribes. Awiyao is going to marry another woman, Madulimay, because Lumnay was not able to give him a child.
Awiyao went back home to see Lumnay because he didn't find her among the dancers at his wedding. He wanted Lumnay to dance at his wedding for the last time but she doesn’t want to. There, there were many flashbacks about how Lumnay did her best to have a child, through offering to the god, Kabunyan; and how Awiyao and Lumnay's love was as strong as the river; but "it is just that a man must have a child", and he had to leave her. He promised her that if he fails to have a child, he will come back to her.
She wanted to protest against the written rule that a man can marry another woman, so Lumnay went to the wedding dance. But while seeing her husband being married to another woman, she could not take it anymore and just went to the mountain to clear away the beans she had thought about.
And so Lumnay, waiting for Awiyao a long time, thought of Awiyao's promise as she cleared away the growing bean plants.
MORAL LESSON There are some things we need to let go in order to get something. We only have two hands of a regular size to hold on to limited things only, and not everything. Choose wisely.
REFERENCE • http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070930192923AAR5TL6
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