Filipino Love Reaction Paper

BAUTISTA, Leerick G. ENG102: Literature

ABM 11 Midterm Critique paper

“There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.”

-F. Scott Fitzgerald It may sound absurd but many of us don’t really accept love as to what it really is. We grow older and our minds tend to think more rationally when it comes to emotional attachment. But love is an exception. We may feel sad for the things that makes us feel the way we feel, like seeing your dog slowly die or feel angry at your friends for not waiting for you to grab your order in the cafeteria before eating. But love is a whole new world that we, humans, cannot truly understand. We may know how the Earth was formed or how dinosaurs went extinct, we may know which

When it comes to local festivals, everyone will go into their festive aura and cook food for just anybody that will come to their home, even people they didn’t like. This is most exercised in the parts of the Philippines which have fiestas, no exceptions. Filipinos are willing to serve just about anybody, even complete strangers will want to hang out together. Because Filipinos love to love—but then again humanity do not know how love work—we call this hospitality, another type of love. But romantic love is another story for

This dwende is the one that the girl eventually chose because he was rich. This dwende can give untold riches according to the stories that the Tikbalang heard. The dwende depicts the people who are weak yet powerful in terms of financial stability. These are the people who were criticized due to their physical defects but can put you down because of their financial prowess. A depiction of individuals who are tormented by their weaknesses that they resort to the use of money in order to gain power. The characters in the story simply depicted the people that are very much normal in our everyday surroundings. Different attitudes that are clearly reflection of the natural identities caused by a certain event, characters who have their ‘hugot’ in life. Tikbalang, who wants someone to love him despite of his characteristics, was a towering man but a powerless lover. The girl, who wants to have an easy way of being wealthy, maybe just wasn’t really that simple. And the duwende, who wants to be taken by others seriously, is a tormented individual that really is