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Pamagat: Malang Panginoon

(Isang Pagsusuri)

I. Paksa

Tema:  

Ang kuwentong, Walang Panginoon, ay umiikot sa isang maralitang pamilya at sa kanilang pakikipagtunggali sa mga mayayamang nagsasamantala sa kanila. Masusuri dito ang agwat ng mayayaman sa mahihirap na tao sa lipunan. Mababatid din ang pagtatagisan ng dalawang puwersa, ang naghaharing uri, na kinakatawan ni Don Teong at ng mababang uri, na makikita sa tauhang si Marcos. Umiikot ang buong kwento sa pagpatay ng katarungan, kalayaan at hustisya sa mabababang uri ng mga tao sa lipunan.

Kinamkam ni Don Teong ang lupaing sinasaka nina Marcos na mula pa sa kanilang ninuno. Namatay ang ama ni Marcos sa sobrang sama ng loob nito kay Don Teong samantalang ang tiyuhin nito ay namatay din habang nagsisilbi dito. Nang malaman ni Don Teong na magkasintahan si Marcos at si Anita, ang anak nito, sinaktan niya ito hanggang sa magkasakit. Lalong sumama ang loob nito Marcos kay Don Teong at ginusto nitong maghiganti.

III. Tauhan

a. Marcos – binatang magsasaka na namatayan ng ama, tiyuhin, at kasintahan at masama ang loob kay Don Teong

b. Don Teong – mayamang nagkamkam ng lupa nina Marcos at binuwisan sila, hanggang mabigyan na ng taning na palayasin ang pamilya ng magsasaka sa kanilang lupa

c. Anita – anak ni Don Teong at kasintahan ni Marcos. Namatay dahil sa pananakit ng ama.

d. Ina ni Marcos – ang kaisa-isang natirang kasama ni Marcos at dahilan kung bakit nagtitiis siya para lumigaya ang ina.

IV. Tagpuan

Ang kwento ay naganap sa isang bukid sa bayan nila Marcos at Don Teong. 

V. Banghay

Si Marcos ay isang binatang maralita na magsasaka. Patay na ang kanyang ama’t tiyuhin at ang kasama na lang niya’y ang kanyang ina.

Nagsasaka sila sa lupang pagmamay-ari umano ng ninuno nila, subalit kinamkam ito ng isang mayamang nagngangalang Don Teong. Namatay ang ama niya sa sama ng loob dito, habang ang tiyuhin niya ay namatay habang nagsisilbi sa Don.

Si Anita, ang anak ni Don Teong, ay isang dalagang matapos mag-aral sa Maynila ay bumalik sa nayon nila. Nag-iibigan sila ni Marcos. Noong nalaman ni Don Teong na magkasintahan ang anak niya’t si Marcos ay sinimulan niyang saktan si Anita, hanggang ito ay magkasakit at mamatay. Dahil dito, mas sumama pa ang loob ni Marcos sa Don at ginusto niyang maghiganti rito.

Sa dahilang si Marcos ay isang magsasaka, mayroon siyang kalabaw na mahal niya sa lahat ng mga alaga niya. Kung umaga’y kasama niya ito para magsaka, at kung gabi’y iniiwan niya ito sa dulo ng lupang nililibot ni Don Teong araw-araw.

Isang gabi’y biglang umuwi si Marcos na may dala-dalang mga gamit na gaya ng sinusuot ni Don Teong. Simula nito’y lagi na siyang ginagabi umuwi dahil sinasaktan niya ang kanyang kalabaw habang sinusuot ang mga ito kung gabi. Nilalatigo niya ito hanggang ito ay umungol na umano’y naririnig hanggang sa bayan.

Isang gabi’y biglang kumalat ang balitang namatay na raw si Don Teong. Wasak-wasak daw ang katawan niya dahil sinugod siya at sinungay ng kalabaw habang siya’y naglilibot sa kanyang lupa, sa pag-aakalang ito ang nananakit sa kanya kung gabi.

VI. Simbolo at Pahiwatig

Ang kalabaw ang naging simbolo ng kwento. Sa pamamagitan ng kalabaw, nakamit ni Marcos ang inaasam  niyang maghihiganti kay Don Teong.

VII. Talasalitaan

Animas – pagtunog ng kampana sa simbahan Kakirot – kasakit

Batingaw – kampana Ningas – alab, apoy

Sinisiputan – dinadatnan Pagkuyom – pananakit

Sinamsam – kinukuha Nakapagpalubag – nakapagpakalma

Takipan at talinduwa – pagsasabwatan Nagsimpan – umamin, naghayag

VIII. Aral

Bigyan ng hustisya ang mahihirap na tao sa lipunan at bigyan sila ng karapatan. Huwag gamitin ang kapangyarihan upang tapakan ang maliliit at mahihirap na tao.

Credit: Deogracias A. Rosario

Home Reading Report Samples

TITLE: The Soul of the Great Bell

AUTHOR: Lafcadio Hearn

SETTING:

The setting of The Soul Of The Great Bell was nearly five hundred years ago in the City of Pecking now Beijing

CHARACTERS:

Protagonist:

Ko-Ngai – Daughter of Kouan-Yu and the one who sacrificed herself.

Kouan-Yu – a worthy mandarin and father of Ko-Ngai.

Antagonist:

Celestial August- The son of heaven.

PLOT:

Exposition:

The water-clock marks the hour in the Tachungsz', in the Tower of the Great Bell: now the mallet is lifted to smite the lips of the metal monster-the vast lips inscribed with Buddhist texts from the sacred Fa-hwa-King, from the chapters of the holy Ling-yen-King! 

Hear the great bell responding!-how mighty her voice, though tongueless! KO-NGAI! All the little dragons on the high-tilted eaves of the green roofs shiver to the tips of their gilded tails under that deep wave of sound; all the porcelain gargoyles tremble on their carven perches; all the hundred little bells of the pagodas quiver with desire to speak. 

KO-NGAI-all the green-and-gold tiles of the temple are vibrating; the wooden goldfish above them are writhing against the sky; the uplifted finger of Fo shakes high over the heads of the worshippers through the blue fog of incense! 

KO-NGAI!-What a thunder tone was that! All the lacquered goblins on the palace cornices wriggle their fire-coloured tongues! And after each huge shock, how wondrous the multiple echo and the great golden moan, and, at last, the sudden sibilant sobbing in the ears when the immense tone faints away in broken whispers of silver, as though a woman should whisper, "Hiai!" Even so the great bell hath sounded every day for well-nigh five hundred years-Ko-Ngai: first with stupendous clang, then with immeasurable moan of gold, then with silver murmuring of "Hiai!" And there is not a child in all the many-coloured ways of the old Chinese city who does not know the story of the great bell, who cannot tell you why the great bell says Ko-Ngai and Hiai!

Rising Action:

But when the metal had been cast, and the earthen mould separated from the glowing casting, it was discovered that, despite their great labour and ceaseless care, the result was void of worth; for the metals had rebelled one against the other-the gold had scorned alliance with the brass, the silver would not mingle with the molten iron. Therefore the moulds had to be once more prepared, and the fires rekindled, and the metal remelted, and all the work tediously and toilsomely repeated. The Son of Heaven heard and was angry, but spake nothing

Climax:

Then the father of Ko-Ngai, wild with his grief, would have leaped in after her, but that strong men held him back and kept firm grasp upon him until he had fainted away, and they could bear him like one dead to his home. And the serving-woman of Ko-Ngai, dizzy and speechless for pain, stood before the furnace, still holding in her hands a shoe, a tiny, dainty shoe, with embroidery of pearls and flowers-the shoe of her beautiful mistress that was. For she had sought to grasp Ko-Ngai by the foot as she leaped, but had only been able to clutch the shoe, and the pretty shoe came off in her hand; and she continued to stare at it like one gone mad.

But in spite of all these things, the command of the Celestial and August had to be obeyed, and the work of the moulders to be finished, hopeless as the result might be. Yet the glow of the metal seemed purer and whiter than before; and there was no sign of the beautiful body that had been entombed therein. So the ponderous casting was made; and lo! when the metal had become cool, it was found that the bell was beautiful to look upon and perfect in form, and wonderful in colour above all other bells. Nor was there any trace found of the body of Ko-Ngai; for it had been totally absorbed by the precious alloy, and blended with the well-blended brass and gold, with the intermingling of the silver and the iron. And when they sounded the bell, its tones were found to be deeper and mellower and mightier than the tones of any other bell, reaching even beyond the distance of one hundred li, like a pealing of summer thunder; and yet also like some vast voice uttering a name, a woman's name, the name of Ko-Ngai.

Falling Action:

And still, between each mighty stroke there is a long low moaning heard; and ever the moaning ends with a sound of sobbing and of complaining, as though a weeping woman should murmur, "Hiai!" And still, when the people hear that great golden moan they keep silence, but when the sharp, sweet shuddering comes in the air, and the sobbing of "Hiai!" then, indeed, do all the Chinese mothers in all the many-coloured ways of Pe-King whisper to their little ones: "Listen! that is Ko-Ngai crying for her shoe! That is Ko-Ngai calling for her shoe!"

Denouncement

When Ko-Ngai sacrificed herself to make the great bell and save her father’s life.

THEME:

The theme of the story is Life process because it is showed in the story the experiences of Kouan-Yu and Ko-Ngai and what a child can do in order to save his/her parents. 

LESSON:

Learn to sacrifice and make right decisions.

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