The Fence - Jg Villa

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THE FENCEJose Garcia Villa

CMIbarreta


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Let's meet JOSE GARCIA VILLAJos Garca Villa (August 5, 1908

February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet,

literary critic, short story writer, and painter,

awarded the National Artist of the

Philippines title or literature in 197!, as

well as the Guggenheim Fellowship increati"e writing by #onrad Ai$en% &e is

$nown to ha"e introduced the 'reversed

consonance rhme scheme' in writing

poetry, as well as the e!tensive use of

punctuation ar$sespecially coas,

which ade hi $nown as the #oa

*oet% &e used the pennae Doveglion

(deri"ed ro '+o"e, agle, -ion'), based

on the characters he deri"ed ro hisel%


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CHARACTERSAling "iang. unorgi"ing woan who was

betrayed by her husband with her neighbor

Aling #e$ia . a childless widow/ alingiangs neighbor who has not seen a

eeling o reorse ha"ing caught with herneighbors husband

%&ing . aling iangs son who wanted hiso to reconcile with their neighbor

Aling #e$ia's aughter . a girl who isgood in playing guitar that ade 2$ing toall in lo"e

Aling "iang's hus$and . a an who letunsettled with his wie


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About Ikeng and Aling Sebia' daug!ter

%&eng ( hollow dar$ eyes

and shaggy hair

Aling #e$ia's daughter( rugged eatures , a

siian ace, and a

"ery narrow brow,

dar$.cople3.ioned,lat.nosed


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SETTI"GOld house on the roadside, so brownwere the nipa leaves that walled androofed them that they looked musty,gloomy.

4he setting is relecti"e o the $ind ocharacters and the situation they wouldbe in%

4he ni#a !ut loo$ desolate and

epty, relecti"e o how their occupantsbeha"e and eel or each other%

)he have no neigh$ors and yet theneed or each other sees reote anddistant%


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T!e Setting$ %ar&

4hey stood there on the roadside, they two alone,neigh$orless but or thesel"es, and they were li$e twostealthy shadows, each a"id to betray the other% ueerold houses% 6o $rown were the nipa leavesthat walled

and rooed the that they loo$ed usty, glooy% nehigher than the other,pramid(roofed, it tried to assuethe air o astery, but in "ain% For though the other waslow, wind.bent, supported without by luteous baboopoles against the aggressi"eness o the weather, it had

its eyes to stare bac$ as haughtily as the otherwindows as desolateas the souls o the occupants othe house, as sharply angular as the intensity o theirhatred%


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%LOT (3position)4he story opened with the description o thesetting and how the characters are relected inthe setting%

"They should have stood apart, away from eachother, those two nipa houses."

"There should have been a lofty impenetrablewall between them, so that they should not stareso coldly, so starkly, at each otherjust staring,not saying a word, not even a cruel word. "


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((a)kgrounding)

Forerly there had been no baboo encethere had been no weeds%

4here had been two rows o "egetables, one toeach house, and the soil was not parched butsot and rich%

ut soething had happened and the encecae to be built, and the "egetables that wereso green began to turn pale, then paler andyellow and brown%


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(In)iting In)ident)

Aling iang had caught herhusband with taling 6ebia

one night%


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(Riing A)tion)

4he ne3t orning she had gone to thebaboo clups near the ri"er *asig andelled canes with her woan strength%

hen orning dawned she rose and wentbac$ to the bac$ o the house although "erytired and began to split the baboos%

&er husband noticed her, but said nothing%y noon, Aling iang had built that ence%4wo tanned country.woen inished theence ro the opposites to centerward%


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#hec$ out the con"o:

hen her husband as$ed her what she was doing, sheanswered, ;2 a building a ence%ntil Da when 2$engs eyes were closed and hishands were cold% 6o sic$ he rested that night% At !a,the guitar was played and inally inished its playingbut aling iang was "ery angry, shouting that theguitar playing was a oc$ because his son is alreadydead%


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%OI"T O, VIE-

THIRD %ERSO" %OV

4he narrrator is not part o the story and can

gi"e eedbac$ and coents ro

dierent character%


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S.M(OLISM

THE ,E"CE

4he ence signiies the walls that

hindrance and separate e"en best riends,

aily, or relati"es% 4he $am$oo

strengthened the hatred as these

baboos ta$e away the decaying eeling

in the heart o aling iang and 6ebiatoward orgi"eness%


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THEME

Hatred overrule

Aling (iang and Aling Sebia are ost araidone o the would gi"e way%

T!e building o/ t!e /en)e ee* ne)ear0to #rote)t t!e*elve /ro* eeing ea)!

ot!er&


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STOR. A"AL.SIS

1% ho is the better other, Aling iang or

Aling 6ebia= +iscuss your answer%

D% hy do you thin$ aling 6ebia was not

seen any eeling o reorse in the story=

#an you tell what does she eel about

aling iang=

!% 2 you are EGilla, how will you end the

story=

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