WR 1 Mark Jojie M.

Emelo Bachelor of Science in Information Technology 102-C The Wedding Dance By: Amador Daguio
The story about a long married couple from the mountain tribes named, Awiyao and Lumnay. We all know, to bear children is very important element in creating a family and establishing better relationship between husband and wife. But Awiyao and Lumnay cant have that kind of family. Awiyao is going to marry another woman, Madulimay, because Lumnay was not able to give him a child. For me, Awiyao is not totally a bad husband but I cant say that he is a good husband. At first, he was hesitant to leave Lumnay alone because he loves Lumnay so much. But he want to achieve a perfect family with the presence of father, mother and a child. So need to marry another woman. There have a part that he wanted Lumnay to dance at his wedding for the last time but she cannot. She wanted to protest against the written rule that a man can marry another woman, so Lumnay went to the wedding dance. But while seeing her husband married to another woman, she could not take it anymore and just went to the mountain to clear away the beans she had thought about. I feel sorry for Lumnay because if she did her best to have a child, through offering to the god, and how Awiyao and Lumnay's love was as strong as the river; but "it is just that a man must have a child", and he had to leave her. I need to rered the last part because I was not able to understand it that much but I was reading it for the second time, I realized what the growing bean pods mean. At the last paragraph of the story states, The stretching of the bean pods ful length from the hearts of the wilting petals would go on. In my opinion, Daguio meant that life still goes on. The hearts of the wilting petals symbolizes lumnays broken heart. If I will rate the story 1-10 I give 8 cause it was a good story and many things that you will learn from it.