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    An essay on The Chieftest Mourner by Aida Rivera-Ford The short story focuses on Filipino conventions during the wake of loved ones. It’s also a twist of Filipino stereotypes regarding social conventions such as the ‘kabit’ or the second wife/mistress‚ as compared to the first wife. The story is narrated in a somewhat unbiased‚ childlike tone but it’s actually flavored with insight and implicit descriptions that shows the protagonist’s maturity. There is a good balance of insight‚ as if to give

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    Explain the title. In what way is it suitable to the story. The chieftest Mourner is the title chose by Aida Rivera Ford because it discusses in the storyof the two wives that were on the wake of the poet. Who will be the chieftest mourner for that wake‚is it the legal one? Or is it the second wife. In a nutshell‚ who has the right to be the chieftest mourner for the poet and the poet’s family. It is suitable to the story because the story occurred on the wake of the poet and the story revolves

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    Free Essays‚ Term Papers & Book NotesEssaysBook NotesAP NotesCitation GeneratorMore"">Home » Health An Essay on the Chieftest Mourner by Aida Rivera-Ford By albeitalways‚ jan. 2011 | 5 Pages (1087 Words) | 4780 Views|4.512345 (1)|Report|This is a Premium essay for upgraded membersUpgrade to access full essayYOU KNOW YOU WANT TO...SendAn essay on The Chieftest Mourner by Aida Rivera-FordThe short story focuses on Filipino conventions during the wake of loved ones. It’s also a twist of Filipino

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    Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Literature is the art of written work and can‚ in some circumstances‚ refer exclusively to published sources. The word literature literally means “things made from letters” and the pars pro toto term “letters” is sometimes used to signify “literature‚” as in the figures of speech “arts and letters” and “man of letters”. A short story is a brief work literature‚ usually written in narrative prose. In so doing‚ short stories make use of plot‚ resonance

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    THE CHIEFTIEST MOURNER By: Aida Rivera-Ford Prepared by: LORLY P. CAPERIDA Activity 1: Paint me a picture Directions: 1. The teacher will divide the class into 5. 2. Then‚ she will be describing a scenario from the story “ The Chieftiest Mourner” and students will try to get a mental image in their head of what it would be like with those instances. 3. The group will show the scene and freeze. 4. The group that portrays the scene perfectly will have 1 point. Groups with highest

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    Summary of the chief test mourner This is a short story authored by Aida Rivera Ford. The story is all about the death of the narrator’s uncle. It is a story with a focal point focused on love and innocence in the context of death.  At the establishing point of the story‚ the first story lines already shows a tint of innocence and simplicity but the gloomy tone of the story is already felt. The situation is just a very typical scenario in the Philippines but through the writer’s prolific used

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    A Literary Analysis of N.V.M. Gonzalez’s “Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories” N.V.M. Gonzalez’s “Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and other stories” is a humble and comely collection of seven short stories that plunges deep into “the private and the public lives” of Filipino women and children bound to see life in a new light as events unfold. The world of the book is‚ as Francisco Arcellana puts it‚ is “the world of Mindoro and Manila: the world of theparaya and the anting-anting and anito-worshiping as

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    The Chieftest Mourner: A Reaction The Chieftest Mourner is a story or rather a narration by a girl in her college days whose unvledied. Her uncle was given the title "the last of a distinct school of Philippine poets" and wasdescribed as "the sweetest lyre that ever throbbed with Malayan chords". The title of this story isdifferent from the other ones I’ve read before because one of the words which makes it up isunfamiliar to me and to my dictionary‚ which makes it a bit hard to make a connection

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    The Chieftest Mourner is a story or rather a narration by a girl in her college days whose uncle died. Her uncle was given the title "the last of a distinct school of Philippine poets" and was described as "the sweetest lyre that ever throbbed with Malayan chords". The title of this story is different from the other ones I’ve read before because one of the words which make it up is unfamiliar to me and to my dictionary‚ which makes it a bit hard to make a connection between it and the story itself

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    The Chieftest Mourner by Aida Rivera Ford He was my uncle because he married my aunt (even if he had not come to her these past ten years)‚ so when the papers brought the news of his death‚ I felt that some part of me had died‚ too.I was boarding then at a big girls’ college in Manila and I remember quite vividly that a few other girls were gathered about the lobby of our school‚ looking very straight and proper since it was seven in the morning and the starch in our long-sleeved uniform had not

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