PART I – AUTHOR/WRITER OF THE STORY Kerima Polotan-Tuvera (December 16‚ 1925 – August 19‚ 2011) * Was a Filipino author. She was a renowned and highly respected fictionist‚ essayist‚ and journalists‚ with her works having received among the highest literary distinctions of the Philippines. * Some of her stories have been published under the pseudonym Patricia S. Torres * She graduated from the Far Eastern University Girls’ High School. In 1944‚ she enrolled in the University of
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Analysis on the Short Story “The Virgin” by Kerima Polotan Tuvera * Based on the short story‚ the various personalities that the main character named Miss Mijares showcased were her stiff and aloof behavior wherein her superiority to herself makes her unfriendly and detached to other people. Also her attitude when it comes to dealing with people wherein she often humiliates them by asking them questions with regards to their standing in the society. Moreover‚ her life was effusively based
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A Character Analysis of Kerima Tuvera’s The Virgin Where Psychology and Personality Meet Jessica Brown E03 Introduction Through the use of theories based on psychology and personality‚ the characters in The Virgin will be analysed in this essay to show that there was development. To do this essay‚ I did extensive research on the types of theories that were floating about on the Internet such as the Psychoanalytic Theory of Freud. I also did in-depth research on the types of characters in literature
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Isabel and Joe were in the restaurant since Isabel wept on that afternoon because Joe desired her but they were poor and could not marry. The reason was that they both had miserable jobs‚ the futile night studies and Joe’s sick parents. Joe worked as a clerk in publishing house and received meager salary‚ which he spent to his sick parents while Isabel was as assistant librarian to Mrs. Suntay‚ in a small children library. They first met when theirs a show in the library where Joe appeared selling
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My Last Farewell Farewell‚ dear Fatherland‚ clime of the sun caress’d‚ Pearl of the Orient seas‚ our Eden lost! Gladly now I go to give thee this faded life’s best‚ And were it brighter‚ fresher‚ or more blest‚ Still would I give it thee‚ nor count the cost. On the field of battle‚ ’mid the frenzy of fight‚ Others have given their lives‚ without doubt or heed; The place matters not--cypress or laurel or lily white‚ Scaffold of open plain‚ combat or martyrdom’s plight‚ ’Tis ever the
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Student Analysis Lady’s Choice (Kerima Polotan Tuvera’s The Virgin: A Feminist Approach) Kerima Polotan Tuvera is a Filipino female author who wrote The Virgin which won two first awards in the Philippines. The story can be narrated both man and woman. The text shows that the character‚ a woman who likes to wear flurry-colored clothes‚ Miss Mijares—a 34 year-old submissive daughter‚ sacrificing herself (she spent most of her life caring for her ill mother that’s why she’s still a virgin). She
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A Character Analysis of Kerima Polotan Tuvera’s The Virgin Kerima Polotan-Tuvera’s “The Virgin” is a short story that is centered on two characters namely Miss Mijares and The Carpenter. The title “The Virgin” reflects the subject virginity which is an important and cherished value for Filipinos. A Filipina should be proud to have maintained her virginity but in the case of the thirty-four-year-old Miss Mijares‚ she is ashamed of it. In her thirty-four years of existence‚ she had never been
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Summary of the Virgin The story that was written by Kerima Polotan-Tuvera‚ “The Virgin” is a story about a woman named Miss Mijares that was about 34 years old. She was slimy and almost bony. She also knows how to dress herself to hide the small chest she has by putting puff and ruffles on her chest part. She was not an ugly person but not also beautiful. She was a woman that has full of priorities that she later realized that she was old enough to find a man that she can marry. Miss Mijares‚ a
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The Virgin by Kerima Polotan The title of Kerima Polotan’s "The Virgin" gives us the subject-virginity‚ female virginity‚ a cherished value of Filipino Male culture. By presenting its protagonist as "victim" rather than heroine of this value system‚ the text subverts it. Reflecting on her virginal state‚ Miss Mijares does so "with a mixture of shame and bitterness and guilt" The story’s eroticism is heightened by the lyrical‚ almost cadenced language. (The eroticism is quite explicit for it’s
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THE VIRGIN 1. Discuss the characteristics of the protagonist using feminism. * Our main character is Miss Mijares‚ she is most likely in the age of 30s and she is still a virgin. She realized that love and marriage have eluded her because she is taking so much of her mother‚ but the mother died lately. * Using the feminism approach in describing the characteristics of the protagonist in the story‚ Miss Mijares is an educated woman and also holding a high position in her job. Asides
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