Chapter 5

Summary of Findings, Conclusion, and Recommendations

This section includes the summary of the paper and the conclusion of the findings based

on the analysis of the selected short stories and the recommendations raised for enhancing the

study and crafting lesson exemplar in literature use in delivering lessons in class.

Summary of Findings

This section presents the summarization of the study. The following are the main points

the researchers collected and found from the selected short stories in the 21st Century by Filipino

writers. The selected short stories used are The Summer of my 17 th” by H. O. Santos, “Kara’s

Place” by Luis Joaquin M. Katigbak, “Meditations of a Piss Artist” by Menchu Aquino

Sarmiento, “The Martini Effect” by Doreen D.L. Jose, “The Steel Brassiere” by Iris Sheila G.

Crisostomo, “Sinigang” by Marie Aubrey J. Villaceran, “The Kite of Stars” by Dean Francis, and

“Touch” by Lakambini Sitoy.

The study examines the characteristics of female Filipino youth in the selected 21st

century short stories. The researcher applied Simone de Beauvoir’s feminism, narcissist, woman

in love, and mystic.

1. What fictional representation of women can be gleaned from the 21st century

Philippine short stories?

- The fictional representation of women that can be gleaned from the 21st

century Philippine short stories are narcissist characteristic and they are also

women in love. These characteristics are based on the experiences and other

characters that impacted them in their lives.

 2. Based on the results, what blended classroom lesson material can be crafted in

teaching to discover literature as a tool to assert one’s unique identity and to better

understand other people?

- See Appendix for the lesson exemplar –

Conclusion

This section presents the conclusion of the study. The following are the generalized

points and ideas the researcher concluded from the study.

1. The women characters in the story possess the characteristics of narcissism and

woman in love. The researcher did not find a character that possess a mystic

characteristic of all the eight selected short stories. these women characters who

became narcissist and show women in love characteristic are because of the trials and

challenges they had been through and because of the attention that are seeking from

the Other. The situation and the environment which housed the women characters

influenced in nurturing their attributes towards their selves, their families and the

society at large.

2. Some of the characteristics possessed by the women characters in the short stories are

still manifested with today’s Filipino women. Some of the qualities of the Filipino

women still exist. The short stories can awaken or expose the reality of life to some

women.