The Two Themes

This time around at class, we discussed about Mr. Franz Arcellana's literary works such as Divide by Two and The Mats seem to have alink to each other in terms of the theme used from both stories.

Divide by Two tackles about how Filipinos occupy and respond tto their neighbors teritorry............and for me this story best suits the theme personal land because we Filipinos in a way have an innate and deep sense of what we are doing and the culture and tarditions that we perform everyday....and with it goes along the venue or place were we do these activities. Those characters from Divide by Two portray the common actuations of Filipinos when interacting with their neighbors who affects their living.

The Mats, very much like the previous story has the sense of typical Filipinos reacting to their personal belongings. I think the theme belonging best suits this story beacuse the story also says that each children who were given mats by their father (custom made and labeled with their names by their personality) cherished and "pinahalagahan' those things given by their father. When somethings are tasked to be under our care, Filipinos usually mark it and label to signify to whom it belongs to.

The two stories, though both told in a different manner, has the same concept of the term belong..........and I think each and every story told by these "Canon Authors" from class represents a kind of their signature in each story that tells and portrays how these era of colonization and produced national literature in a foreign language affected them personally. the only factor to better distinguish their influence in the story is through identifying the themes.