yellow, shouting “Lolo Putot! Lolo Putot!” (putot means short) then an old slender guy with a receding hair line, welcomed us with a gentle smile. I was very fond of him because he would always give me chocolates and money every time my family visits him in the barrio. I never knew his story until one Saturday afternoon, my mother sat beside me and as the sky changed its colors from fiery orange to dark hues of blue when she said “Your grandfather was a great person” She said this with a gentle smile
I can remember my grandparents have always been very frugal people. My grandfather is the hardest working man I know, who still works at the old age of 74. Though despite my grandparents age, they have made sure to care for each and everything they own. For example, my grandfather still maintains, what is in my opinion, the best yard on the block and my grandmother makes sure there is always a warm meal on the table, a clean house, and a freshly pressed uniform for my grandfather every day before
Before my existence and my parents’, was the love story of my grandparents. Let me start with my father’s parents, my Nanay and Tatay. My Nanay and Tatay’s love story focuses on the quote, “Love is sweeter the second time around.” Want to know the reason? Well, here’s how it goes, around 70 years ago, a man with fair skin complexion and a sharp nose, my Tatay who happens to be a widow with no children and a teacher at the same time migrated from San Fernando, La Union and set his footsteps in a municipality
points of the two short stories I read in my English Lit and Comp class. Two men who come from families with a long history of rivalry amongst each other have to work together in order to try and get out of their fatal condition. While we also have a woman with critical health issues and doesn't have a loving passion with her husband. These two stories sound to most about very different topics, and that they are but I will show you the comparative and contrasting points from each story. Starting with
“In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad” by Marian Wright Edelman. This quote is related to both of these novels but is shown in different ways. In the short story “The Moustache” by Robert Cormier the main character, Mike, has recently grown a moustache and liked how it looked on him, but it was affecting him in various ways shown in the text. He had to go visit his grandmother in her nursing home because he hadn’t visited her since she moved in. When he got there he was surprised
a patient is unpleasant. But can you imagine you are a paralyzing stroke patient? My dearest grandfather suffered from paralyzing stroke in the past seven years. It was a bolt from the blue when my mother notified me this broken-hearted news. I remember I cried loudly in the ward when I saw my grandfather lie on the sickbed. At the very beginning he received physiotherapies. After a few weeks later, my grandfather transferred to the department of Chinese Medicine for acupuncture and massage. I saw
The protagonist of the story Miss Mackenzie, an elderly yet not a grumbling spinster, rather a polite and a spirited one is shown to share an intrinsic bond with nature. She lives amidst the serene hills in the Himalayan Mulberry Cottage. A cat shares the snug refuge with her
The tale “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner has a multitude of themes that could apply to it. The one that stands out the most in my mind, however, is how the story displays how paramount it is for all human beings to have positive relationships. In this particular short work of fiction, we hear the story of a woman named Emily Grierson, who was, for the most part, isolated her entire life. What is the cause of this isolation? The cause of her solitude is a combination of both her father and
English 1B Apr. 16 2017 How Is a Poem? In comparison with other types of literature, poems often have profound or unclear meanings, but with in-depth analysis, poems can turn up somewhat unique. Many people may think that poems take the definition of a short piece of writing where feelings and emotions flourish, but in reality, poems confront more with the “how” factor, how can a poem express feelings or how can a poem turn up unique. Poems truly uniqueness comes mainly from the four areas of structure
find the graves of people like famous author Edgar Allan Poe, the son of Francis Scott Key, the grandfather of former U.S. President James Buchanan, five former mayors of Baltimore and fifteen generals from