Franchesca O.

Buergo Salamanca

Grade 11- Carbon Dean Francis Alfar

Discovery Chart

Character  Gaudencio Rivera (Protagonist)

-a novelist from Manila, who sought to
teach in Palawan then stumbled upon
to his future wife.
-a polymorphous-perverse man who
desires for fame and earthly things.
 Jacinta Cordova (Dynamic)
– a woman with an extraordinary
beauty that transmutes wall
into glass. Lover of Gaudencio.
 Cesar Abalos (Dynamic)
- closest friend and had an affair with
Gaudencio.
 Mrs. Helen Brown (Antagonist)
- a “albino” teacher from America,
religious in an obscene way. She fronts
God as a cover to her ungodly acts.
- hates Jacinta so much to the point she
curses her.
 Apolinaria Vergara (Static)
- Jacinta’s aunt, who has been with her
in the glass house
- deaf and blind, old woman
 Lucio Abalos (Flat)
- Cesar’s uncle
- a husband to Filomena
- a father to Carlito
 Filomena Abalos
- a wife to Lucio
- a mother to Carlito
- offers home to Jacinta
 Isabel Cortez (flat)
- a poet and one of Gaudencio’s affair
 Carlito “Carlos” Abalos (dynamic)
- son of Filomena and Lucio
- Jacinta treat him as her own blood
- he has a phobia of water due to
Jacinta’s premonition
  Herminia Cruz (flat)
 a grandmother to Carlito
Bau Long Huynh
- a vietnames sailor, lost in the isalnds of
Palawan
- a lover of Jacinta
Point of View Third person
-omniscient
Setting During the time of post World War II era in the
Time islands of Tagbaoran, Palawan, Phillipines.
Place Various village in Manila and locales in United
Local color States.
Rural settings with certain beliefs and ethnic
magic. The community are composed of
judgemental people.
Mood/Tone Mood – The novel is written by the author
intended to make the reader felt enchanted
and magical by words. The events are almost
fantasy like, and the overall mood of the story
is simply magical. The words are unfiltered to
describe love and lust.

Tone – the imaginative and exaggerated words

made the tone of the story to appeal straight
forward to the reader in a magical and
taunting way.
Conflict/s Gaudencio leaving Jacinta.
External Jacinta’s struggle through life after being left
Internal by Gaudencio

Jacinta’s conflict within herself that she want

to be with someone who is loyal to her,
traumatized by Gaudencio’s act but then
ending up with him.

Symbols Jacinta – in general, she may be representing

the state of the Philippines. When Gaudencio
showed attraction to her, it may represent the
love of foreign people in our country that
time. But then he was left behind and
destroyed her natural magical beauty. When
she struggles to pick herself up again, allowing
herself to be a slave to people, in history, the
 Philippines struggles to recover itself from the
foreign slavery. Vietnamese character in the
story can also represent another foreign
country whose Philippines wished to be with.

Mrs. Brown – she can represent the whole of

Americans on the post- world war II era.
Americans came to the Philippines with
Thomasites holding Holy Bible, disguised
themselves as religious and adored
Philippines. When Mrs. Brown first saw
Jacinta, she forced herself into her.

Shiro – it is a dog always together with Mrs.

Brown. Owned by a Japanese general.
Representing the role of Japanese people in
the Philippines.

Plot Devices/ Technique Flashback

Movement Post colonialism
- the history of the Philippines and its
state being, after colonialized by the
multiple foreign countries and wars.