Born Virgilio Senadrin Almario

March 9, 1944 (age 72)

San Miguel, Bulacan

Pen name Rio Alma

Occupation Poet, literary critic, lecturer, editor

Nationality Filipino

Alma mater University of the Philippines

Literary movement Philippine Modernism

Notable awards National Artist of the Philippines

University of the Philippines Centennial Award

Amado V. Hernandez Award

Balagtas Award for Poetry and Essay

Spouse Emelina B. Soriano

Children Asa Victoria Ani Rosa, Agno Virgilio

AUTHOR

Growing up in Bulacan among peasants, Almario sought his education at Manila and completed his degree in A.B. Political Science at the University of the Philippines

Founder and workshop director of the Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo (LIRA), an organization of poets who write in Filipino

A recipient of numerous awards such as several Palanca Awards, two grand prizes from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Makata ng Taon of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, the TOYM for literature, and the Southeast Asia Write Award of Bangkok

The story happened long time ago in the

Paradise. It is the jungle or forest and their

natural habitat were the animals live

together.

Because of the stories that the parrot made, all the animals in the Paradise

started to quarrel and it distorted them.

But in the end the parrot make again a story about the elephant so the animals started to

fight again and it makes the animals to not talk to each other and start hiding their secrets and say bad things about the other animals in the

Paradise.

One day a talkative parrot arrived in the Paradise which tells stories that are not

true.

The elephant wanted to stop the fighting so he tries to talk with the animals and some animals agreed to the elephant.

At first the animals are happily living together in the Paradise.

The book is about the different kinds of animals who once lived together in the Paradise happily before their war started. The Paradise where they lived was so peaceful because there was no fighting against each other at that time. Even though they are different each other, speak differently, and think differently, they loved each other, respected to each other, and shared the food together without any fighting. They tolerated one another’s likes and dislikes. It did not matter whether they are the same or different. Thus, the paradise was so peaceful at that time.

One day, their friendship became rough and they started to fight against each other when the parrot arrived in paradise. The parrot is very talkative and enjoys telling story which is not true. However, the animals in the paradise loved to listen to its story because it was funny. As the parrot tells the untrue story between the animals, the Dog and the Cat had a fight one day although they love each other. Then, the Chicken and the Eagle started fighting.  Besides, the Carabao and the horse started quarreled. Those were happened because the animals in the paradise believed in the parrot’s untrue story. It distorted them to start the war in the paradise.

After all that happened, all the animals started to keep secrets from one another by making use of  new dialects that the parrot could not understand because parrot always tells the untruth. They started to discriminate each other according to their appearance. They didn't believe each other and tried to hide food from others. One day, the elephant tries to intervene and meet his relatives in order to stop the fighting. Some of the animals attended the meeting and they agreed that. Again, the parrots spread the untrue news and tell the rest of the animals that the elephant wanted to become a king of the paradise. Thus, the lion and tiger are furious and gathered other animals and fight the elephant including his relatives and others. Since that time, the wars never stop and the paradise cannot be peaceful and bring them happiness for them. 

The conflict started when the parrot arrived in the paradise. The parrot is a talkative one and tells stories that are not true. All the animals started to fight and quarrel because the parrot said to the animals something bad about the other animals there.

The theme of the story is war and fighting is a curse to all living things or even nonliving things. It makes any situation harder and it also distorted ones feelings to prevail the madness in their heart. It is not good to listen to anybody that you don’t know.

The story symbolizes UNITY and TRUST. Unity, because they all helping each other in

terms of giving food and sharing everything that they have no matter what happen.

Trust, because if you don’t trust a person you may have a conflict. If you trust a person you will not listen to other people about what they are saying against you that you don’t even know if its true or not.

FLASHBACK The plot device used in the story is

flashback because the author tells about what happened in the past. It caused a long fight with the animals that’s why the animals have different physical structure and dialects or sounds that they can make are different from one another in order for the other animals not to understand what they are talking or saying.

Third Person Pont of View The narrator or the author of the story

uses the word they and it. The author is not involved in the story. The narrator of the story is not

present. The narrator didn’t know if all the

characters attitude and what they think in the story.