STORY 1- Si Mabuti Flashcards
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title
Si Mabuti ( anthologized and popular)
The title of the short story speaks to the story itself. It is all about the life of a teacher named Mabuti and how she handles the problem as a teacher and mother to her child.
author
Genoveva Edroza-Matute a feminist writer
author born on
January 3, 1915
author died on
March 21, 2009 (94 yrs old)
author’s education
ust- education
teacher for 46 yrs
1980- retirement
head of ph normal college
become dean
advocate and write all native filipino
author’s award
palanca award- 4 honors
2005
mabuti means
mabuti- bansag
- always say mabuti
characters
Mabuti – an ordinary public school teacher who is trying to make her students realized the importance of studying. She always says “mabuti”and that is the reason why students called her Mabuti. She trying to show her positive side to her students despite of problems she is encountering.
Fe – student of Mabuti. Mabuti saw her crying in one corner of the library.
husband- doctor who grave in different house
conflict
How can Mabuti handle her problems as mother to her child and teacher to her students. She wanted to show her students her positive side despite to being emotionally sick because of the suffering brought my the father of her child. The conflict is person versus to herself because the main character is hiding her emotions towards to the circumstances.
Symbol/s
Mabuti is a symbol of typical person who is suffering from a dilemma. She represents other woman of a married man. Also she represents a woman with soft-heart but strong personality.
Plot:
There is a teacher named Mabuti. It is not her real name but her students used to call her Mabuti. She is teacher in public school. One day, she heard and saw her student crying in one corner of the library and she asked her student if she wanted to share the reason behind those tears. Mabuti was also crying that time. Fe tried to ask Mabuti why she is crying and Mabuti just responded that Fe is too young to understand. Mabuti has one child and she wanted her to be a doctor. She didn’t tell something about her husband. One day, Fe heard that the father of Mabuti’s child died but not laid in their house but to other woman’s house. And now, Fe understand why Mabuti is not telling story about her husband
lesson
Mabuti is a kind of character in the story who will remind us that despite of different problems, we must always believe in ourselves. If we will believe that we will solve it, it will happen. She is a woman with flaws, and in reality we all have flaws. What differs is that, Mabuti knows how to handle it. Problems are part of everyone’s life. Some persons committed suicide to escape but in the story, it is clearly shown that crying is just the way of Mabuti to release the pain. She is a strong woman and continues her life believing and dreaming of her child’s future. In life, we will achieve happiness if we know how to quit from sadness.
pov
in medias res- narration that starts at the middle of the story
narrative hook- tells a catchy story opening to hook the attention of the readers; story within a story or hypodiegesis, tells a story within a story
cliffhanger- cliffhanger, tells and abrupt ending which places the main characters in a perilous situation with no resolution
flashback- tells an interjected scene of the story that takes it back in time from the current point in the story and often used to tell the events that happened before another important event; flash forward tells a scene that takes the narrative to a future time from the current point of the story
