Urbana and Felisa

By:
Modesto De Castro

Reporter: Stephen Rey

C. Estilo
Abegaile

Characters
Urbana The eldest of the sisters;
studied in Manila.
Felisa Younger sister of Urbana; the
one who takes care of the house.
Honesto Youngest of the three.

Themes

Family
Perseverance
Conduct Etiquette
Moral

Moral
"The glance is natural magic. The
mysterious communication established across
a house between two entire strangers, moves
all the springs of wonder. The communication
by the glance is in the greatest part not
subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily
symbol of identity with nature. We look into
the eyes to know if this other form is another
self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a
faithful confession what inhabitant is there."

Purpose
The main purpose of the author in writhing
this story was to teach people on how to follow
the Christian way of living. To teach people tips
on how to avoid and prevent temptations
according to the bible.

Urbana at Felisa
Tremendously popular from the 19th-century
to the first half of the 20th-century.The story
relates the importance of purity and ideal virtues
that married people should practice and enrich.

Summary
A book by Modesto de Castro, the so
called Father of Classic Prose in
Tagalog. These are letters between
two sisters Urbana at Felisa and have
influenced greatly the behavior of
people in society because the letters
dealt with good behavior.

Written in Tagalog by a priest famous for his powerful sermons,

Urbana at Felisa is an example of the book of conduct that
emerged in Europe during the Renaissance. Its author used the
epistolary style where in a series of thirty-four letters, members
of a family in Paombong, Bulacan gave each other advice on the
ideal conduct and behavior expected of a middle-class and
Christian family. Thus in her letters to her younger siblings Felisa
and Honesto, who remained in Paombong, Urbana, who left for
Manila to study, wrote not only of the need to follow the values
and norms found in Christian teaching, but as importantly, to
observe the proper mode of conduct as one dealt with people in
society. The series of correspondences, including a letter from a
priest on the duties and responsibilities of married life, touched
on various facets of experience that a person underwent from
birth to death both in the secular and spiritual realms.

In retrospect, Urbana at Felisa should be perceived as a

text not only meant to regulate conduct and behavior,
but as a discourse to contain the moral excesses of the
period
and
affirm
basic
Christian
tenets.
Urbana at Felisa enjoyed tremendous popularity not
only in the nineteenth century but in the first half of the
twentieth century as proven by the numerous reprints
and translations it underwent. Many of the norms
articulated in the book, especially those related to the
importance of purity, the ideal virtues that married
people should cultivate, the view of life on earth as a
vale of tears, among others, continue to shape
contemporary value systems.

FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH
By: Jose Garcia Villa

SUMMARY:
The story is all about the seventeen years old boy who decided to
marry a very young girl named teang. The boys name is dodong.
Dodong love teang so much and he cant wait to marry her. One day
dodong decided to ask permission to his parents. Dodong and teang
got married at the very young age and not thinking of what will happen
to them in the future. They just follow what they feel.
after 9 months teang gave birth for their first child. Years and years go
by dodong and teang have more than one child. Teang now realize how
hard it is to be a young parent.she regret everything she had done, for
entering to such situation. She also think of what would be her life if
she marry her other suitor before instead of dodong. She asked herself,
can I have the same life I have now?. Teang regret so much for
entering to that king of situation.
dodong ang teangs son turned 17. the boy followed his parents
footsteps.he also want to marry at 17 years of age without thinking
twice. He told his parent what his plans, dodong told his son how hard
it is to be in marriage at the very young age. Like dodong, his son was
so eager to marry the girl he loves.

Moral lesson:
the moral lesson for this story is that marriage can wait
at the right time and not at the very young age. Getting
into marriage is never an easy life. It have ups and downs
that you should handle well. Before entering to it we must
settle everything, we must have diploma, get a good work
that can give your family comfortable life and in legal age.
Always think of what will happen in the future if we enter
into such thing.
the writer really is great of thinking and writing this kind of
story because it gives us knowledge of what will happen to
us teenages if we enter marriage life.

The Nanking Store

By: Macario Tiu

Summary
It is a story about two Chinese lovers who werent
destined for each other. After years of marriage, they still
havent produced a child which is considered bad in their
culture. In the Chinese culture, it is very important to
produce a child, specifically a son because it is their way
of spreading their bloodline. In the story, Peter was the
only hope of the Zhin family to carry on its name to the
next generations. Lindas mother-in-law was very
unhappy with her that she scolded and slapped Linda in
public. Unfortunately, Peter died in a car accident and
had two sons with a Visayan bar girl which was called by
the community as a bad woman. Linda became
pregnant with no other suspect but the driver.

Betrayal
The story shows examples of betrayal. Where?
In the part where everybody knew about Peter
dating and had children by another woman and
Linda being pregnant by another man. If they
were Catholics, they had committed adultery.
Married people entered a sacred sacrament and
should live fully with it without breaking it. They
should be faithful to each other besides any
circumstances that they encounter. They should
fight together and show other people how they
are strongly bond by love.