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The Wedding Dance Story Analysis

The wedding dance is a short story that written by Amador Daguio. He was born
in the Ilocos province of the Philippines in 1912. He began writing poetry in high school
and published his first poem before he graduated. “The Wedding Dance”, he draws
upon the culture of his ancestors to explore Filipino traditions along with the universal
themes of love, suffering, and societal expectations.

The story of wedding dance about love that you will give love for someone that
may not deserve yourself for the reason of lacking of something that you can’t have.
The characters are the husband and wife that are Awiyao and Lumnay, who had been
married for seven years. In spite of being in love, Awiyao feels the need to marry again
in order to have a son. At his second marriage celebration, Awiyao goes to check on
Lumnay, knowing she is upset. Awiyao thought the answer to Lumnay's sorrow would
be to have her join the other women during the wedding dance. Lumnay was in fact at
his wedding, but left. She could not stand the idea of her husband marrying another
woman because she could not give him children.

This story is a great story that holds you. It makes you think about the difficult
situation the protagonist is in, and the indeterminate future ahead of her. A culture is a
way of life of a group of people the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they
accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by
communication and imitation from one generation to the next. We cannot deny that
culture is the hindrance of their love but I guess the way of their living is a way to
preserve what their ancestors was doing before even it is gives you a wounding feeling
better for them to follow their culture even you want to prevail love. This story will give
us a moral that if you truly love a person, you must let them take the road to
happiness, no matter how painful it is.