Ama​dor T.

Daguio

The Wedding Dance

 Meet our team

Estonelo Espinoza​ Estrada​

Member Member
Leader

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Agenda
Biography: Amador T. Daguio

Characters

Setting

Conflict

Summary

Moral of the Story

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 Amador T. Daguio
• A poet, novelist and teacher during the pre-war
• He was best known for his fictions and poems
• He had published 2 volumes of poetry, “Bataan Harvest” and “The
Flaming Lyre”.
• He served as chief editor for the Philippine House of Representatives
before he died in 1966.

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 Amador T. Daguio

Amador T. Daguio was a poet, novelist and a teacher

during the pre-war. He was best known for his fictions
and poems. He had published two volumes of poetry,
"Bataan Harvest" and "The Flaming Lyre". He served as
chief editor for the Philippine House of Representatives
before he died in 1966. He was born on January 8, 1912
in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, but grew up in Lubuagan,
Mountain Province, where his father, an officer in the
Philippine Constabulary, was assigned. He was class
valedictorian in 1924 at the Lubuagan Elementary
School. Then he stayed with his uncle at Fort William
McKinley to study at Rizal High School in Pasig. Those
four years in high school were, according to Daguio, the
most critical in his life. "I spent them literally in poverty,
extreme loneliness, and adolescent pains..."

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 Amador T. Daguio

In 1952, he obtained his M.A. in English at

Stanford U. as a Fulbright scholar. His thesis
was a study and translation of Hudhud hi
Aliguyon (Ifugao Harvest Song). In 1954, he
obtained his Law degree from Romualdez Law
College in Leyte. Daguio was editor and public
relations officer in various offices in
government and the military. He also taught for
twenty-six years at the University of the East,
U.P., and Philippine Women’s University. In
1973, six years after his death, Daguio was
conferred the Republic Cultural Heritage Award.

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 Characters: The Wedding Dance

Lumnay​ Awiyao Madulimay

A women who was The husband Awiyao’s
left by her husband stated above new wife
because he had to
marry another
women/Developing

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 Settings

Place Time
In the mountains somewhere in the Philippines Long time ago

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 Conflict

• Man vs. Society

- The lead characters have to follow their tribe’s custom

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 Summary
“The Wedding Dance" is a short story about a husband and wife,
Awiyao and Lumnay, who had been married for seven years. Despite
being in love with his first wife, Awiyao feels the need to marry again to
produce children with his second wife; if he doesn’t have a son to carry
on his name, Awiyao will feel shame from the entire tribe.

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 Summary
At his second marriage wedding feast, Awiyao goes to check on Lumnay
at his Lumnay’s house, knowing she is upset. Awiyao thought the answer
to Lumnay's sorrow would be to have her join the other women during
the tribe’s custom wedding dance, so he decides to personally invited her.
Lumnay was in fact at his wedding but left. She could not stand the idea
that her husband left and is marrying another woman because she could
not bear children.

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 Summary
Lumnay begs Awiyao to stay and she recalls fond memories of them
in their Philippine house, and in the mountain province. Awiyao tells her
to keep the house, but she doesn’t want it. She says that she will go back
and live with her parents, where she will no doubt die from sadness and
the fact that she cannot be with the man she loves because, the bitter truth
is that her husband married someone he doesn't love.

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 Summary
Awiyao offers her beads that are worth 20 fields so that she may always
have enough. Lumnay takes the beads that he gives her, and Lumnay
walks away to mourn the end of her marriage. The reader is left
wondering, what happens to Lumnay?

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 Summary

• Exposition
- The setting is a mountain village
of the Philippines where Awiyao
has been remarried.

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 Summary

• Conflict
- Awiyao has left his wife Lumnay,
whom he loved very much. However,
she couldn’t give him a child. He has
now married Madulimay in hopes to
have a son, who will continue his legacy.
This is something Awiyao expresses as
important in his culture. However,
Lumnay is upset because she loves
Awiyao and doesn’t want this separation.

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 Summary

• Rising Action
- Outside, the villagers are dancing
in celebration of the wedding.
Awiyao leaves to try and comfort
Lumnay. He offers her many items
of the life that they built together.
Lumnay refuses them and clings to
Awiyao, wishing he would stay.

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 Summary

• Climax
- Awiyao finally leaves to re-join
the wedding and Lumnay runs into
the hills.

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 Summary

• Falling Action
- Lumnay sits on the side of the
mountain overlooking the blazing
fire and dancing women, thinking
about how her life has changed.
She has a sense of desperation,
isolation, and worthlessness.

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 Summary

• Resolution
- The reader is left not knowing
what will become of Lumnay.

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 Moral of the Story
The wedding dance is a story in
which people must fight for their true
beliefs and never give up for what is
truly right.
If you truly love a person, you must
let them take the rod to happiness, no
matter how painful it is. Fight for your
love no matter what.

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 Northern Luzon Adventist
College
School of Nursing
Artacho, Sison,
In Partial Fulfillment ofPangasinan
the Course Requirement in Philippine
Literature

Thank you By: Estonelo, Grey Miguel

Espinoza, Adrian
Estrada, Francis

Semester II, S.Y 2022-2023

March 30, 2023