Republic of the Philippines

BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY

The National Engineering University
Alangilan Campus
Golden Country Homes, Alangilan Batangas City, Batangas, Philippines 4200
Tel Nos.: (+63 43) 425-0139 local 2121 / 2221
E-mail Address: ceafa@g.batstate-u.edu.ph | Website Address: http://www.batstate-u.edu.ph

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NAME:
SECTION:

DIRECTIONS: 1. Answer the following questions.

2. Answers should be in paragraph form.
3. Write your answers below the guided questions.
FICTION 2 Tata Selo AUTHOR: Rogelio Sikat
LIT 102 ASEAN LITERATURE ASEAN PHILIPPINES
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Theme
1. What reality does the fiction present?
2. What makes you think about it? What clues does the author use to show the theme?
3. As a young person, what can you do about it?

Narration
1. What narration is used in this fiction?
2. Is there any other narration that will make this fiction more appealing?
3. Do you like the ending? How do you say that?
4. If you were to end this fiction, how will it be?

Theme
1. There are many people who struggles to live every day and yet they do not get out of poverty.
2. Tata Selo was the past owner of the land and yet he struggles just to survive because he is not the rightful
owner anymore of the land.
3. As a young person, I can be their voice in times like this, I may be not enough for others to notice but as long as
someone can hear me I can continue shouting and fighting with them.
Narration
1. The author uses a variety point of view, including first person point-of view and third person point of view.
Somehow, the author uses this kind of approach to show the reader how does the main character feels at the story.
2. None, because the narration itself is enough to catch the attention of the readers. Also, the narration is enough
to easily understand how did the story goes.
3. The ending is quite sad because of this phrase “Lahat ay kinuha sa kaniya”, which shows that Tata Selo has
many problems in his life that he feels like he doesn’t have everything with him. From he doesn’t own the land
anymore, second is that he killed Kabesang Tano that leads him to imprisonment, lastly, there is no one that he
loves him anymore.
4. I will end this fiction at least making Tata Selo feel loved because it is clear that Tata Selo has lost hope.

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 Literary Approach
(Feminism)
1. What do you think is the illness of Saling?
2. How is Saling depicted in the fiction?
3. What do you think the mayor did to her? Why didn’t she want to go home?
4. If you were the author how will you make Saling react to the situations?
5. What does the author want to tell of the role of the mayor towards Saling?

(New Historicism)
1. What in the fiction can you base your assumption of the year it was written?
2. Compare the culture of the people on this kind of situation during the time of its writing
and the present time.

(Formalism)
1. What pictures of scenes or places or things become vivid in your mind as they are
described in the fiction?
2. Do they have meanings or are they symbols of what?
3. How do the incidents help you create conclusions about the characters and events?

Feminism
1. The illness of Saling is somehow serious because of how Tata Selo reacted when he sees his daughter.
2.
3.
4.
5.
New Historicism
1. The year that the story has been written is 19th century since the story itself shows how farmers struggle on defending their
works in order to feed their families three times a day.
2. It is somehow the same with the people at the present time, fighting for their country, fighting for their selves and fighting
for their rights. This story shows how a Filipino fight when it comes to his family and country.
Formalism
1. When there is a rally on the front of the municipal hall.
2. Yes, since there are many people at the front of municipal hall, we can easily say that there is some rally at the municipal
hall.
3. The characters and scenes that the story shows made me think of revolutionary times, because of the municipal hall and the
Tata Selo fighting for himself in order to stay at where he works.
 Republic of the Philippines
BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY
The National Engineering University
Alangilan Campus
Golden Country Homes, Alangilan Batangas City, Batangas, Philippines 4200
Tel Nos.: (+63 43) 425-0139 local 2121 / 2221
E-mail Address: ceafa@g.batstate-u.edu.ph | Website Address: http://www.batstate-u.edu.ph

College of Architecture Fine Arts and Design

ASEAN Literature:Discovering Identity Amidst Diversity

On A Personal Note
Write a blog about the story of Tata Selo.

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 MAIZELL JANE A. CALINAO FEBRUARY 11, 2023

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