THE STORY OF THE MOTH

AN ANECDOTE
 An anecdote is a brief, revealing
account of an individual person
or an incident: "a story with a
point," such as to communicate
What is an an abstract idea about a person,
Anecdote? place, or thing through the
concrete details of a short
narrative or to characterize by
delineating a specific quirk or
trait.
One night in a novel, El
Amigo de los Ninos,
E S TORY OF
"Doña" Teodora read the TH
THE MOTH
tale of The Moth and the
Flame" (The Friend of the
al
Children). Young Jose did by: Dr. Jose Riz
not listen to his mother,
because two moths flying
around the flame of a
coconut oil lamp fascinated
him. The young moth,
disobeying the advice of
her mother, flew too close
to the blaze and was killed.
It looked dead in the
lamp's warm oil.
The death of the brave little
moth, which he did not notice
when his mother finished
E S TORY OF
reading the novel, attracted TH
Rizal profoundly. All his THE MOTH
attention was paid to the light al
of the oil lamp and to the little by: Dr. Jose Riz
moth that was gone. The light
that triggered the death of the
little moth was more exquisite
than ever to him. He justified
the little moth's horrible fate.
It is deserving of a man to
sacrifice his life for a noble
cause,"it is worthy for a man to
sacrifice his life for a noble
cause."
THE END