ACTIVITY 1: DIRECTIONS: READ THE TEXT BELOW TAKEN FROM SHORT STORIES. IDENTIFY HOW THE AUTHOR’S HUMAN SITUATIONS AND EXPERIENCES ARE MOVING HIM TO WRITE SUCH LINES. TELL WHETHER THESE COULD BE INFLUENCED BY CULTURE, HISTORY, ENVIRONMENT OR ECONOMIC FACTORS.

1. Now, this rich man’s servants were always frying and cooking something good, and the aroma of the food wafted down to us from the windows of the big house.

2. DODONG THOUGHT TO HIMSELF HE WOULD TELL HIS FATHER ABOUT TEANG WHEN HE GOT HOME, AFTER HE HAD UNHITCHED THE CARABAO FROM THE PLOW, AND LET IT TO ITS SHED AND FED IT. HE WAS HESITANT ABOUT SAYING IT, BUT HE WANTED HIS FATHER TO KNOW. WHAT HE HAD TO SAY WAS OF SERIOUS IMPORT AS IT WOULD MARK A CLIMACTERIC IN HIS LIFE.

3. When the Americans recaptured the Philippines, they built an air base a few miles from our barrio. Yankee soldiers became a very common sight.

4. "I am afraid. He may not like me.“
"Does that worry you still, Maria?" my brother Leon said. "From the way you talk, he might be an ogre, for all the world. Except when his leg that was wounded in the Revolution is troubling him, Father is the mildest-tempered, gentlest man I know

5. The sight of the Señora’s flaccidly plump figure, swathed in a loose waist-less housedress that came down to her ankles, and the faint scent of agua de colonia blended with kitchen spice, seemed to her the essence of the comfortable world, and she sighed thinking of the long walk home through the mud, the baby’s legs straddled to her waist, and Inggo, her husband, waiting for her, his body stinking of tuba and sweat, squatting on the floor, clad only in his foul undergarments.​