ASYNCHRONOUS ACTIVITY: ASEAN LITERATURE

APRIL 21, 2021, WEDNESDAY

DIRECTION:
PLS ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. TO BE SUBMITTED TODAY. (TEAM
LEADERS WILL COLLECT FROM EACH MEMBER THEN FORWARD IT TO YOUR CLASS
REP THEN THE CLASS REP WILL SEND TO ME VIA EMAIL.)

LITERARY #1: MRS GENI IN DECEMBER

1. What belief does Mrs. Geni hold about marriage? How does this belief influence her
work as a makeup artist for bride-to-be?

Her belief does Mrs. Geni hold about marriage is that, If the bride is unhappy about
being married, she will be unhappy for the rest of her married life. This kind of belief affects her
make-up to the point that she refuses to accept brides who are getting married after two days.

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2. Mrs. Geni considers marriage as “not a success,” how does this idea relate to her own

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marriage and her reason for marrying her husband?

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This idea relate to her own marriage by experiencing unhappy married life. The reason

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for marrying her husband because she said that it was time to get married. We can observe on
her statements how she negatively defined the marriage because for her, all we need for a
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marriage is a little courage and a lot of foolishness.

3. How does Mrs. Geni react on the upcoming marriage of his husband to his second
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bride? What does she mean when she says that she will personally do the makeup for
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her husband’s second bride?

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When the problem is brought to her attention, she react respectfully. I think what she
meant was that she would not ruin the wedding precisely because she loved him first; rather,
she would be happy for them because they had finally found their true love and happiness they
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4. Whenever Mrs. Geni does the makeup for the brides who are second and third wives,
she makes them feel the joy of wedding ceremony. What does this action reveal about
her attitude toward marriage?
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All women wants to experience unforgettable wedding ceremony with their true love and
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Mrs. Geni wants to experience it too but unfortunately she married a man that isn’t her meant to
be. This action reveals that in the first place she only wanted those bride to be to find a real
happiness for their wedding ceremony.
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5. What is the significance of this concluding statement from Mrs. Geni, “Let the
buffaloes experience happiness, just as we have believed all this time that marriage is
happiness”?

For me, the significance of this concluding statement from Mrs. Geni is that we
should let other people happy, we should allow them to experience things what makes

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 them really happy because I think in this kind of way, you will be more happier if you
saw other people found their true happiness in life.

LITERARY #2: ONLY IN POETRY

1. The first stanza suggests that a poem is created out of a challenging experience as
the speaker relates this creative process of poem-making to a long and lonely day of a
typical farmer on a rice-field. What can a reader benefit from this craft created from a
challenging experience? What kind of connection can he or she make to benefit and
better appreciate poetry?

Sometimes we are all suffering because of those challenges that we experienced, but
we still find a way to stand and solve those given challenges. This kind of connection can he or
she make to benefit and better appreciate poetry by being motivated to something he or she
never imagine that he could do it in his/her own way and sometimes we can be inspired in every
poet’s writing.

2. The speaker describes the unveiling of hidden meaning of a poem as a continuously

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slow movement from heaven and earth? What do heaven and earth symbolize in this

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stanza? How do these symbols relate to the process of interpreting a poem? How is the allusion

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of Adam searching for Eve recounted this process of interpretation?

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The heaven symbolizes joy, happiness and peace. Heaven represents moments when

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you are genuinely happy while the earth represents moments when you are suffering yet finding
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peace. And I believe that the allusion of Adam and Eve represents our never-ending desire for
real happiness.

3. The third stanza narrates a poet’s struggle in conveying his or her message to the
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readers. Characterize this struggle. How should a poet approach this struggle to overcome it?
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How does the image in the fourth stanza communicate the outcome of overcoming
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this struggle?

If I were given a chance to be the poet, I’ll approach this struggle as a motivation
believing that I can do better in all things. The image in the fourth stanza conveys that the poet
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wants to amaze in every readers and also the poet wanted to bring peace for the last part of the
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his poem.

LITERARY #3: THE BIRTH OF A POEM

1.In your own words, interpret the poem.
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The poem is created that bringing intense feelings in order to portray and appreciate
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those thoughts and feelings.

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