CHARACTERS:

MAJOR
• Alfredo Salazar - son of Don Julian, a more than 30 years old man and a

By:Paz Marquez
bachelor. He is engaged to Esperanza but still have feelings to Julia Salas.

DEAD STAR
• Esperanza - wife of Alfredo Salazar. She is a homely woman, literal minded
and intensely acquisitive and with uniformly beauty.

Benitez
• Julia Salas - sister-in-law of Judge Del Valle; the other woman of Alfredo that
remained single in her life
MINOR
• Don Julian - father of Alfredo Salazar and Carmen
Carmen - sister of Alfredo Salas.
• Judge Del Valle - brother-in-law of Julia Salas.
• Donna Adella - sister of Julia Salas.
• Calixta - note-carrier of Alfredo Salazar and Esperanza.
• Dionisio - husband of Donna Adella.
• Vicente - husband of Carmen.
• Brigida Samuy - She is the illusive woman whose Alfredo is looking for.

PLOT SUMMARY AUTHOR:

EXPOSITION Paz Marquez-Benitez
Alfredo is thinking about the mess he made on his love life upon Genre:
hearing the conversation of Carmen and Don Julian about his Realistic Fiction, Philosophical, Romance,
relationship with Ezperanza. At some point in a trip, he met the Angst, Life
innocent and naïve Julia Salas from whom he fell in love and Theme:
found what he is lacking. Man Vs. Society
RISING ACTION SETTING
After being so much in loved to Esperanza, the feelings had • House of Don Julian
subsided. With Julia he felt more lively as a calm man as him could • House of Judge Del Valle
be. In the night before Julia’s departure he tried to confess his • House of Don Julian in Tanda
feelings but in the end, their relationship had gone no better. • Church of Our Lady of Sorrow
CLIMAX • Calle Real
The composed Alfredo had an argument with the modest • Sta. Cruz particularly in Calle Luz
Esperanza about their conflicting views of what seems to be an TIME
immoral act that Calixta did. This thereby lead to Esperanza Early 1900's
hinting of not being the one to go out of her place, of not being Lenten Season
the one who tried to sought another.
Julia, who is still unmarried, lives.
called for him to go to the town where
humiliation. A few years later, his job
not to break his word and avoid social
The wedding happened, thus, he chose
FALLING ACTION

been looking up into a dead star all along.

him anymore; he understood that he had
to his ‘what-if’ questions hardly interest
once again. He realized that the answers
come to a closure after meeting Julia
During all his years of married life he had

RESOLUTION
Characters

Mr. Bienvenido Santos

by: Bienvenido N.
Scent of Apples
Celestino Fabia - Fellow Filipino who owns an apple farm and has been
away from the Philippines for over 20 years.

Ruth Fabia - Wife of Mr. Fabia

Santos
Roger Fabia - Son of Mr. Fabia

Setting

The story happened in Kalamazoo, Michigan and it was on October

The main setting was in Mr. Fabia's place, wherein he invited Mr. Santos
to come by and eat dinner.

PLOT OF THE STORY Scent of Apples

Exposition
The story opened with a brief introduction of where the author was.The
 Winner of the Before
author, Mr. Santos, was asked to speak before an audience. He met
Celestino Fabia ("just a Filipino farmer" as he called himself) the night Mr. Columbus Foundation's
Santos left his hotel. American Book Award
Rising Action  Scent of Apples contains work
In the course of the Mr. Santos' discussion, Mr. Fabia asked how the Filipino
from the 1940s to the 1970s.
women of today were differ from the stereotype he was familiar with. After
the lecture, Mr. Fabia told Mr. Santos about his farm and his family and Although many of Santos'
invited him over to his house. writings have been published
This story was written during the Rebirth of Freedom. in the Philippines, Scent of
Climax
Apples is his only book
They finally arrived in the farm, the fragrance of apples diffusing all over the
place. published in the United
Falling Actions States.
Mr. Santos finally met the wife of Mr. Fabia and his son, Roger.  The short story "Scent of
They invited Mr. Santos to their humble home and catered him with food.The
author found a picture of an anonymous Filipina wearing a traditional
Apples" is one out of many
costume - another manifestation of how Mr. Fabia's nostalgia is. small pieces of personal
Conclusion events that Santos has
He bade farewell to the family and Mr. Fabia took him back to the hotel. He experienced.
offered to send news to his family when he got back to the Philippines but
Mr. Fabia refused, saying that they might have already forgotten him.They
 This story was written during
shook each other's hand and said goodbye. the Rebirth of Freedom.
Theme of the Story
 This piece focuses on the main theme of

 "The Scent of Apples" is about how first

the culture in the Philippines.
culture and how they miss being part of
Americans fell left out of American
immigrant blues and how Philippine

them in the new world.

past life even if they had created a life for
sense of loss and seek connection to their
generation immigrants experience a
CHARACTER
Main (The Teacher)

By: Catherine
1. Big mouth

The Teacher
 Always tell to his friends about his student’s weakness.
2. Anger
 Always angry with his student’s grammar mistake.
Minor Character (Teacher’s Friend)
1. Good listener

Lim
 Always listen to his friend’s problem.
 Try to understand the problem.
 Try to have a solution for his friend’s problem.
Static Character (Tan Geok Peng)
1. Weak
 Always do the same mistakes when the teacher ask her to write an essay.
2. Shy and timid girl
 She never told her problems to her teacher.
Dynamic Character (Tan’s Father)
1. Heartless
 Always beat Tan and her mother when he drunk.
 When he is in good mood, he allowed Tan to continue her study.

PLOT SETTING
1. EXPOSITION Physical setting
 The teacher asks his friend to read the composition written by a 1. At the staffroom
 Where the teachers doing their work.
student in secondary four. The teacher was angry because the
 Tan Geok Peng’s teacher does the
student makes a lot of grammar and tense mistakes.
correcting composition exercises by his
2. RISING ACTION
students.
 The student try to tell her teacher about her problem through a 2. Cake stall
message (composition),but the teacher can’t understand about  Tan Geok Peng’s father sells cakes to
what she want to tell him. earn money.
 The teacher is impatient with his student’s grammar mistakes 3. Eleventh floor
and makes him want to resign.  Tan Geok Peng jumped down from
3. FALLING ACTION there.
Social setting
 His friend’s colleague try to calm down him.(all student is same,
 The teacher that did not bordered
they just do the grammar mistakes even pre-university’s
about his students in detail and just saw
students)
the weakness by the tenses mistakes
4. RESOLUTION that have been done by Tan Geok Peng.
 Tan Geok Peng commits suicide.  The father that irresponsible with his
 The teacher was regret with his attitude which playing an wife and children. Ask his daughter to
irresponsible teacher. quick from study and helps him to sell
the cakes.
THEME



Peng that storied about her problem.
the story that had been telling by Tan Geok
that his student did. He did not go through to
condition. He just saw the tenses mistakes
The teacher did not go through his student’s
students’ problems.
The teacher that was not sensitive with his
 Pikit was the oldest town in Cotabato, theys aid. And the townsfolk
said too that hundreds of years ago, a Spanish had dropped anchor in the

Excerpt from GREEN

By: Antonio Enriquez
SANCTUARY (Novel)
Pulanggi River, and while the awed Moros watched, Spanish soldiers in iron
clothes (mail coat) came down her gangplank and discovered the town behind
the cogon grass and under the great balete trees. The Spanish soldiers’ faces were
white as paper, with straight high noses and glistening, unstained teeth which
bore no reddish stain from the juice of mamà (betel nut chew). The Spaniards
apparently had not stayed long in Pikit, for Alberto had not seen a mestizo or
mestiza in town since his arrival some three months ago. This was not at all like
his hometown, Zamboanga, where the Spanish conquistadores (and licentious
friars) had sown so many seeds that mestizas bloomed wildly like
bougainvillaea flowers, and the old people spoke fluent Castellano and the
streets were named after saints of places in Spain.
Not so long ago the commercial bbus never stopped in Pikit; not even
long enough for its cloud of dust to settle back on the highway. Instead, it
disgorged its passengers at the nearest small village, and they had two walk
about two kilometers to the town proper carrying their baggage on their backs.
Those who refused to get off, or asked for a fare refund, were kicked off the bus
by the conductors, divested of their luggage or cargo, and were forced to walk
barefoot to nearest barrio where they brought slippers or rubber shoes.

If a bus stopped in Pikit, they said the Moros there deflated the tires There was no place to go in Pikit after nightfall, and
with their wooden clubs, smashed the lights and windshields to smithereens. the one movie house opened in the morning and
Then marketgoers and storeowners stripped off its wooden parts and burned closed in the afternoon. It showed double program
them for fuel; the townsfolk dismantled the chassis and engine and sold the war features. In one film, Fernando Poe Jr., the
metal by the kilo in Cotabato City over a hundred kilometers away. Only the Golden Boy of action pictures, with automatic
skeleton of the bus was left on the road to rust and corrode under the sun and machine gun, mowed down hundreds of Moros on
a slope. Upon seeing this massacre on the picture
rain, and for the naked children to play all sorts of games on. But what the
screen, Datu Mantel stood up from his wooden
children loved to play most was being grown-ups, replaying the parts the
bench, drew his .45-calibre gun, and promptly
townsfolk had in dismantling the bus.
perforated the picture screen. “There!” he said to no
Up along the road and just before the market-place, an
one in particular, “you are now dead!” Everyone
abandoned truck chassis, or what was left of it, was discovered with vines and scampered for safety, and the movie house owner
climbers whose tentacles wound round and intertwined with its steel and iron stopped showing such films again in Pikit;
frame. They grow thick and luxuriously green, and here and there flowers thereafter, they said, he showed only American war
bloomed as though on an abandoned and forgotten grave. The flowers were movies. When the fans of Fernando Poe Jr.
orange, yellow, and red, and early in the morning their tiny petals glistened demanded to see their movie idol, the owner of the
under beads of dew and were wonderful to look at. Long before the Cerdeza movie house said they all knew he was shot dead
Surveying Company men came, they said the bus has been hastily abandoned by Datu Mantel and now lay buried in the hills of
on the highway ehen a datu from Matalam ordered the Christians down and Pulanggi.
raked the side of the bus with bullets. The automatic carbine went tat-tat-tat-tat
and made holes on the side of the bus as big as thumbs. A four-year-old child
abandoned by the mother died there on the bus, his head blown off and his
scalp plastered on the wooden backrest of his chair.
police hief, although he never wore a badge.
next day, the townsfolk saw him wearing the khaki uniform of the
police of Pikit without an appointment from the governor. And the
was how, they said Datu Mantel became unofficially the chief of
Mantel to the chief of police, “Now I am the chief of police.” That
was still in its holster, as though it were a toy gun. Said Datu
draw and at the same time cock his .45-calibre handgun while it
The chief of police knew that with one hand Datu Mantel could
slapped him acrossed the face and challenged him to draw his gun.
murder, while the two of them were drinking in a bar, Datu Mantel
policeman after the datu. Because one evening, a week before the
found the next day, and the chief of police did not send a
bodies of other murdered men, the drunkard’s corpse was not
main street Datu Mantel shot him neatly between his eyes. Like the

from his hip.

said, walked the main road, his .45-calibre handgun hanging low
scavenged the garbage dumps for crumbs. Only Datu Mantel, they
then the rats and tomcats emerged from their hidin, and the dogs
buddies in one of the tuba stores far from the town proper. And
beat changed his uniform into civilian clothes and drank with his
boards. No one walked there after this hour, and the policeman on
carinderias along the road were closed and barred with wooden
One night a drunkard lost his way home, and on the

At six o’clock every evening, the sari-sari stores and

 THE LOVE OF
MAGDALENA
JALANDONI
By: Winton Lou G. Ynion
WRONG NUMBER
By: Lee Martin
Essential Matters
By: Li Li
 Five Brothers, One
Mother
Taurus St., Cinco
Hermanos, Marikina
(Excerpt from MANY
MANSIONS by Exie
SYMBOLISM

 Dead Star- symbolizes Alfredo’s dream of romance with Julia. He

thought there was love, but it was just like a star whose shine could
actually be the leftover traveling light.
 Alfredo-symbolizes the confusion and flaws of human.

 Esperanza-symbolizes hope and devotion, and being manipulated by

the regenerative virtue of society.

Symbols
Scent of apples - nostalgia, exile, sadness, and memories.
"How many times did lonely mind take unpleasant detours away from the
familiar winding lanes towards home for fear of this, the remembered
hurt, the long lost youth, the grim shadows of the years; how many times
indeed, only the exile knows."

The title itself also symbolizes how immigrants from the Philippines took
low paying jobs in America. Such as being an agricultural worker who
works on farms or fields. The scent of apples reflects this as the workers
smell the fruit.