One Mother and Five brothers (First Quarter Examination)

 Plot 

 It started when they have to move into Marikina house which is still unfinished because of the ultimatum hanging over their heads, no electricity, mosquitoes are everywhere, it is very hard to sleep. They continue to live on like that, though for the past months the interior have change but the exterior still remained, unpainted. In the house there is one room specifically for their oldest brother because his mother still hope that someday his oldest son will back.

The day have come that his brothers started to drift farther away from their mother, and he thinks that maybe her mother felt lonely and she thinks that food and a place to stay is what they needed afterall. Every sunday they would spend lunch together and he knew that his mother will surely be busy preparing for the foods for them. He find her mother became much fussier in meals, the cabinet is always full of ingredients like everyday will be a fiest. Until such, his brother started to have their own family and they have to move out from the house, same goes with him. He found out that his father has debts to pay but still give them a better house, he thinks that her parents may be too weary for another relocation. He ask himself if this will be the last time that he will move in or he have to make boxes handy so that it is easy to bring it out. He is so tired of moving into different places looking for another home, but he realized that home is not everywhere but it is in our heart. 

Conflict

That is when they have to move in into unfinished house because of the ultimatum hanging over their heads, and a mother struggling from keeping the strong bond and the connection of their family as her children grow older.

  Theme

The story shows the true meaning of home despite from moving into different places and the unending love of mother to her childrens. 

Characters

 A loving MOTHER who still wants to take care her children even they are old enough to care of themselves . 

 FATHER , who loves his family so much to the extent of providing them a house despite from all the debts he going to pay. 

BROTHERS(CHILDRENS)who started live their life according to their will and slowly drifting away from their parents grasps, creating their own family but still finding time to spend togethrer with their parents. They cannot easily lose unlearns to the people who guide them the road of what they are right now. 

Point of view used 

  First-person point of view

Narrative voice employed  

 Stream-of-Consciousness

Narrative time 

The story happened before. (years passed by)

Angle of the story 

  It is when the mother became more attentive in cooking and became more fussier in their meals and maintaining the cleanliness in their house because she thinks that it is the only way to have her children back in her life 

Setting  

  The story happens in Cinco Hermanos, Marikina. 

Cited dialogue 

  Inner dialogue 

Other literary devices cited 

Incongruity, Understament 






      

   



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