3rd Quarter

Book Report
“A World is an Apple”

Submitted by: Franzi Fae D. Abatol

Submitted to: Ms. Menguito

A World is an Apple

Alberto Florentino

I. Characters

Manuel- a poor man who has a daughter that is sick

Lea-the sick daughter of Manuel

II. Setting

Apple Factory
 III. Point of View

2nd point f view

IV. Theme

The theme of the story is about how man is very unmindful of his sins.
Were in Gods presence he knows the right things .Even if we don’t have money
we should not steel because we know that is not good.

V. Conflict

The poor worker Manuel blamed the management of the apple factory for firing
him just only because of the one apple that he stole. He opined that the company
had plenty of apples to share and asserted that he was treated unfairly.

VI. Symbol

Money

Apple

VII. Summary
Florentino's "The World is An Apple" talks about the sad fate of an indigent father
who had to struggle everyday to feed his family, but the twisting part of the story
was focused on his weakness to the temptation of the flesh, hence eroding his
noble purpose as a father for the story evolved in man's evil-minded nature to
succumb to the lust for physical pleasure forgetting his greater responsibility
outside himself.

Florentino has also managed to use another angle in the story to make his
readers see that money is not the evil but the man who uses the money is to be
blamed for his personal woes.

The story went this way...

A poor worker of an apple factory was fired from work after stealing one apple
which he said was for his sick daughter. He had to steal to feed his daughter for
he used his salary to spend nights with prostitutes, hence, the money that was
intended for the family was diverted to satisfy his lust for the flesh.

Unmindful of his own sin, the poor worker blamed the management of the apple
factory for firing him just only because of the one apple that he stole. He opined
that the company had plenty of apples to share and asserted that he was treated
unfairly.

He questioned the act done to correct his mistake, but he failed to examine
himself for the bad thing he did as a wayward and selfish husband.

What is the moral lesson of this story: that man's ineptness is the cause of his
own misfortune. Man can choose to become bad because he wanted the
pleasures of life and he does not exercise control over his reactions to the evils
that life could bring.

He should have prevailed over his temporal desires for the flesh and not spent all
his money for prostitutes. His family should have been his priority more than
anything else.
 VIII. Insights

That good principles and values will effectively work beneficially to the person
who have them and will not work for those who do not have the right perception
and attitude about life.

Responsibility comes with the knowledge and submission to one's fate. In the
case of the man who fell prey to the lust of the flesh, he knew at the start that he
was married with a sick daughter who needed him the most.

Man's weakness is a flaw that must not always be accepted as expected. We

should remind ourselves that although we are not perfect, we must also
remember that perfection does not mean being holy at all times but it also
means, in its ideal definition, being responsible for one's role in life...the role that
he has chosen himself to be..the choice that was not of other's making but of
himself.

Granting for the sake of argument that he has lost his love for his wife, but this
does not give him the right to neglect his duties as a father. One's wrong choice
for a marriage partner should not be extended to the fruit of such union
regardless of the internal problems between the couple -an innocent life, that of
his daughter.

I recommend this story as a must read. This will show the readers that poverty is
also a state of mind and not of the pocket. The man who knows only himself and
does not hold himself duty bound for his responsibilities in life is indeed a man
who is to be considered the poorest of all.

Only a man who knows his limitations and looks after the welfare of his family
and not sacrificing them at the moment of his weakness, is the man who is worth
the wealth of this world and who deserves respect and admiration no matter what
his economic state of life is.