PRE-COLONIAL ERA

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 SPANISH ERA

Title: “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel

Garcia Marquez

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For the The people in It sounds like It is a
summary. A Very the story treat something out of a magnificent
Old Man With the old man as comic book. But illustration of
Enormous an oddity, but that's exactly the society's
Wings tells the not as a situation deficiencies.
story of Pelayo supernatural encountered by the Marquez's
and his wife oddity: more a characters in Gabriel story primarily
Elisenda, who freak of nature García Marquez’s focuses on
find an old than something 1968 short story "A individuals'
man with wings in beyond nature. Very Old Man with lack of values,
their courtyard The old Enormous Wings": a judgments
after killing crabs man appears to busy family towards the
in a rainstorm. be nothing more suddenly finds neighbor, and
Pelayo gets his than a frail an old man who just the
wife, and they try human happens to inconsistency
to communicate with wings, and have huge of faith in
with him so his status as wings crash- Latin
unsuccessfully. an angel is landed in their American
endlessly patio. society.
debated.
 AMERICAN ERA

Title: “The Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian Andersen

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The story tells of A fairy tale with Upon This is the story
a plain-looking the encountering a of a swan born
little bird (the moral lesson for group of elegant into a family of
Ugly Duckling) people to accept white birds, the ducks, who is
born in a themselves ugly cast out of the
barnyard. His for who they duckling aspires to pond because
one day be as
brothers and truly are. the other animals
beautiful as them.
sisters as well as It tells the story believe such an
After a dreadfully
the other birds of a newly cold and lonely
"ugly duckling"
and animals on hatched winter, the ugly doesn't belong
the farm tease duckling that is duckling sees his with them. ...
him for being widely rejected reflection in the Upon
plain and ugly, so and abused by water and realizes encountering a
he runs off to live others in the that he wasn't group of elegant
with a flock of animal kingdom a duck after all - white birds, the
wild ducks and for not looking he has grown to ugly
geese until like the other be the most duckling aspires
hunters shoot ducks. beautiful to one day be as
down the flock. swan in the pond. beautiful as
them.
 JAPANESE ERA

Title: “The Dancing Girl” by Mori Ōgai

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The story is the The story is the The career of Mori Indeed was a
account of the account of the Ogai, in its most significant
star-crossed star-crossed common intervention in
romance romance interpretation, the
between a between a appears to be a transformation
Germandancing German dancing symbolof the of literature under
girl, Elise, and girl, Elise, and contradictions of way in the mid-
the the protagonist, Japan in the Meiji decades.
protagonist, Toyotarō Ōta a Meiji period (1868– The Dancing Girl
Toyotarō Ōta a Japanese 1912). has as its climax a
Japanese exchange choice by the
exchange student who protagonist, a
student who must choose student studying
must choose between his in Germany, to
between his career and his return to Japan or
career and his feelings for the remain in Europe.
feelings for the dancer.
dancer.
 CONTEMPORARY ERA

Title: “Cathedral” By Raymond Carver

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Opens with the The main The story In his short
narrator telling theme of the develops an story Cathedral uses
the reader in a story is that ironic a first-person
conversational intimacy situation in which narrator, whose
tone that a involves much a blind man point of view is very
blind friend of more than teaches a sighted much limited and
his wife's is surface man to truly flawed.
coming to visit interaction and “see” for the Ultimately,
them. The that it is the act first time.The however, the
narrator is of active blind man, limited point of
clearly listening which Robert, is a view of the narrator
unhappy about inspires friend of the shows where the
the upcoming understanding narrator's (the true ignorance in
visit. He then and devotion. In sighted man) the world lies. The
flashes back to the story, the wife. He has narrator makes his
the story of narrator finds it come to visit opinions clear from
how his wife perplexing that them for a night the very beginning.
met the blind his wife is so after his own
man when she attached to her wife dies.
worked for him blind friend,
as a reader. Robert.