CONTEMPORARY LITERARY
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1.THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
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The Road is a story about survival after a
disaster (left unspecified) that has all but
destroyed the United States.
Since nasira ang society because of natural
forces the people resort to cannibalism which
ang nagyari ang father and son di dumaan sa
forest because nandon ang mga cannibal so,
dumadaan sila sa road.
Main Character: Father and Son
Type of conflict: Man Vs Nature
The main conflict of the book is a simple one: stay alive.
All of nature is against the man and the boy, and most
of humanity too.
PRIMARY GOAL: To reach the coast to find food and
safety
McCarthy's writing style in The Road
Minimalist prose with sparse punctuation
Boy (father Died) first refuse to go with the
strangers at the end of the book The Road
Cannibalism has become a way for survival for many
people
Setting: post-apocalyptic landscape
The work examines the destructive legacy of
slavery as it chronicles the life of a Black
woman named Sethe, from her pre-Civil War
days as a slave in Kentucky to her time in
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873.
Sethe: Girl living in the present. Her mind is occupied in
the past because 20 yrs ago. She was a slave and she
free herself but regardless of that fact still her mind still
feels a slave, the way she lives she is a slave and her
memories still haunting her
MAJOR THEME: The legacy and trauma of slavery
Literary feature: Non-linear narrative structure
Since it started with the present and sethe remember
the past and go back to the present
Character Beloved Symbolize: The unhealed wounds
of history
theme explored through the character of Denver:
The struggle for independence and identity
-this is the son he had when she is free and still in the
present times
- pinagbaqbawalan makipag interact sa iba and
pinagbabawalan umalis because takot sya na maging
slave si Denver
Central conflict in Beloved
Color associated with The Road: Gray
Sethe's internal battle with her traumatic past and the
ghost
2.BELOVED by Toni Morrison
3. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The novel is based on the true story of a Black slave
woman, Margaret Garner (Pinatay ang kanyang
MGA ANAK), who in 1856 escaped from a Kentucky
plantation with her husband, Robert, and their
children.
The name of beloved came from Dearly Beloved
(eldest daughter of Sethe) who is a ghost and also
lives at 124 Bluestone Road. The ghost is part of the
history of sethe and ang nangyari when she was a slave
years ago in Kentucky she was pregnant. She had a kid.
Sethe really hate being slave so much that she didn’t
want her children to became slave as well. So, to make
her children will not be slave he killed her own child
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Even when Sethe became free the ghost keeps
hunting her because she killed her own child
because she didn’t want to be like her a slave.
Nalibing ang anak but someone did it for her a
guy which she approach and help her para
malibing ito. But the guy wants sethe to pay but
she didn’t have money so, she have sex with
him as the man wish per 10 minutes of the
name of her child.
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This story is like Oedipus complex which killed
her father and married his own mother
It talks about a teenager na si Kafka gusto nyang
malaman about the history of her life. Nasan ba ang
kanyang mother and ano ba ang sinabi ng kanyang ama
na si he will killed his own father and have sex with her
own mother and will be inlove to her own sister
*15TH BIRTHDAY of kafka (the beginning of the
story)
Wants to Run away from his tyrannical father
The following are objects that Kafka took from his
father's room to disguise himself as an old man
A. a knife
B. flashlight
C. sunglasses
Kafka's father reveal to him that made him want to
escape his unpleasant fate
Oedipal prophecy
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This story is like Oedipus complex which killed
her father and married his own mother
Kafka consult in planning to escape his father's
control
-Imaginary Friend (Crow)
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Wife of Baba
Have affair with Velutha
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Oldest Known Oral Version of Cinderella:
drives Kafka to seek out the library in Takamatsu
The search for answers about his identity
Rhodopis
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4. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- historic events that shaped the present India and
marks the setting of the novel: The Partition of India
-Magical Realism- which does children who are born in
Indian independence they will have a super power
Award Receive in 1981: Booker Prize
In original story the father of cinderella is still
alive
1. CINDERELLA BY Grimm Brother
Cinderella ask her father to bring home
the first twig that touches his hat Because Cinderella
loves nature
shoes made of (since maraming ball)
The narrator of Midnight's Children, Saleem Sinai,
began his narration by stating his birthday, which was
the same day that India gained its independence from
the British Empire August 15, 1947
First Night: Silk and Silver
Second: Uknown
Third Night: Gold
"midnight's children" symbolize
The potential of the new generation
5. God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy- First Indian woman to win the Booker
Prize
-it talks about fraternal twins are named Rahel and
Esthappen
Rahel: energetic
Spinning wheel represents: Temptation
The following are the reasons why the old fairy
uttered a curse to the king's daughter in Sleeping
Beauty.
She was forgotten
Esthappe: serious
Both of them signifies the characteristics of the people
during the abolishment of the Indian caste system
23 years were Rahel and Estha separated
Rahel and Estha Ipe are the protagonist twins in the
story. Rahel is an energetic, imaginative girl, while
Estha is more serious and well-behaved than her.
significance of the river: THE PASSAGE OF TIME
2. Sleeping Beauty by Brother’s Grimm
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REPRESENTS
During there childhood the river were clean but when
they reach adulthood the river became unclean and
have skull. Pure and pristine river became dirty.
She was not given gold plates
She was not invited in the christening
What is the other name given to the Sleeping Beauty in
other versions of the story?
A. Leah- Mpther of rosamond
B. Fauna- the name of the fair of aurora in the movie
C. Maleficent- old fairy na nainsulto sa kagandahan
and di pagimbita ng parents ni aurora
D. Rosamond/ Aurora- the sleeping beauty
Prominent themes: The impact of caste
3. Hansel and Gretel BY Brothers Grimm
The caste system was officially abolished years earlier,
put it still remains strongly imprinted on the minds of the
public, seen in the love story of Ammu (Mother of
fraternal twins) and Velutha (Paravan or lower caste
KABIT)
Plan of Hansel and Gretel's mother to ease their
hunger
Leave them in the forest
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Ammu
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Mother of fraternal twins
Hansel drop Pebbles onto the path that
allowed them to go back to their house
2nd time they drop is Crumbs but kinain ng
mga ibon
Breadcrumb trail symbolizes
Vulnerability and loss
Alibaba- discover the cave na pinagtaguan ng
treasures ng forty thieves while napadpad sya sa isang
kweba Nakita nya ang forty thieves and said “open
sesame”
4. The Princess and the Plea by Brothers Grimm
Ali Baba do for a living: Woodcutter
- Nilagyan ng 20 matress at sa luob ng matresses ay
may pea and pag ma feel ng isang babae ang isang
single pea she is a true princess
Central Conflict: The search for true royalty
Pea symbolize: Sensitivity and true nobility
9. Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault
Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother saved
by the huntsman
5. The Elves and the Shoemaker
Elves symbolize: Generosity and Kindness
Main Conflict: The shoemaker's financial troubles
Wolf trick Little Red Riding Hood into straying from
her path to grandmother's house by encouraged her
to pick flowers
Red Cloak Symbolize: Danger
shoemaker's wife do as a form of gratitude toward
the elves.
10. Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm
She sewed small clothes for them
Kind of Plant is a Rapunzel: Flower
6. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
- Campanula rapunculus, rampion bellflower, rampion,
rover bellflower, or Rapunzel
C. Collodi was an Italian author and journalist, best
known as the creator of Pinocchio, the childlike puppet
whose adventures delight children around the world
name of the puppeteer that created Pinocchio:
Geppetto
attitude Pinocchio exhibit toward his creator :
Abusive
7. Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen
Flower which Thumbelina came from: Tulip
Thumbelina came from witch and that witch nagbenta
ng seeds (barleycorn) ng bulaklak ng tulip in exchange
of 12 shillings
How much did the woman pay the old witch for the
barleycorn in Thumbelina? 12 shillings
MAIN CONFLICT: Thumbelina's desire to find her
home
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Toads, moles, and cockchafers try to force
Thumbelina into marriage.
8. Alibaba and the forty Thieves from the story of
One Thousand and One Nights
Open Sesame today’s storage: Password
Rich Sibling: Cassim
The thieves try to kill Ali Baba, and his rich and greedy
brother Cassim tries to steal the treasure for himself.
Characters
Morgiana- clever slave girl that burned the thieves nung
nadiskcover nila na alam n ani Alibaba and secret cave
The queen's appetite for rapunzel grew every time
she ate a salad out of it. Out of necessity, the king
climbed the tower to get more rapunzel or else the
queen would die. What condition did the sorcerer
tell the king for him to continue picking flowers in
her tower? That she shall
have the child the queen will bear in this world
"The prince was overcome with grief, and in his
despair he threw himself from the tower. He
escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he
fell poked out his eyes." At the end of Rapunzel,
how did the prince regain his vision?
Rapunzel's tears fell into his eyes- In the original version
the magic that rapunmzel have is in his tears not in her
hair
11. Jack and the Beanstalk by Joseph Jacobs
Beans Symbolizes: Growth and Potential
Because of beans Jack was able to go to the house of
the Giant and have a potential to be rich
What expression can be found in Jack and the
Beanstalk?
A. Scrumdiddlyumptious
- The word scrumdiddlyumptiou s" appears in
Roald Dahl's book The BFG.
The BFG is about a dream maker who saves
children from giants.
B. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!
The expression "Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!" is from
Disney's adaptation of Cinderella. This line is
magical spiel delivered by the Fairy Godmother.
C. Fee-fi-fo-fum
OTHER STORIES W/ WUTHORS
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Author of Never Let Me Go
Murasaki Shikibu
D. Heffalumps
Author of The Tale of Genji
A Heffalump is an elephant-like creature in the Winniethe-Pooh stories by A. A. Milne. The heffalumps and
woozles are the nightmares of Winnie the Pooh.
Yasunari Kawabata
Central Conflict
Author of Snow Country
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won a Booker Prize and 2
Oscars
The struggle against a giant
Anita Desai won the Guardian Prize for The Village by
the Sea
12. Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen.
Kamala Markandaya writes about struggles of Indians
What did the ugly duckling discover when it saw its
reflection in the water?
NAME OF PRIZES FOIR BOOKS
Swan
Why did the ugly duckling fly and swim toward the
other swans in the water? The ugly duckling
thought it would be better to die in hands of the swans
Moral Lesson: Accept people for their inner qualities
13: Frog Prince by Brothers Grimm
alternative title: Iron Heinrich
Frog Prince and the princess first meet
When the prince transformed into a frog near the
princess' house
What literary feature is evident in the princess's
initial disdain for the frog?
Irony- she first hate the frog but suddenly in love
because it became her bestfriend
1. The Pulitzer Prize
named after Joseph Pulitzer, are awarded by
Columbia University for achievements in
"journalism, arts and letters.
2. The Nobel Prize
in Literature is one of the five Nobel Prizes
established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895,
awarded by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm,
Sweden.
3. The Newbery Medal
Awarded annually by the American Library
Association for the most distinguished
American children's book published the
previous year.
GREEK STORIES
Galatea- a statue created by Pygmalion
Aphrodite- ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty
Arachne- challenged Athena and became a spider
14. Rumpelstiltskin by Brothers Grimm
The father agrees with the imp who spins straw into gold
in exchange for a woman's firstborn child. But the
mother didn’t agree
Main conflict: The quest to spin straw into gold