BIOGRAPHY OF AUTHOR

Paras-Sulit was born in Ermita, Manila.[1] After finishing her secondary

education in Manila, she entered the University of the Philippines, where
she first gained notice for her short fiction. While at the University, she cofounded the U.P. Writer's Club in 1927 along with other student-writers
such as Arturo Rotor and Jose Garcia Villa. She graduated with a Bachelor
of Science degree in education, magna cum laude, in 1930.

Paras-Sulit would join the faculty of Florentino Torres High School as an

English teacher[1] while maintaining an active writing career. She was a
member of the Philippine Writers Association and the Literary Guild of the
Philippines. In the 1940s, she joined the Philippine National Red Cross, of
which she served as secretary-general for several decades. While at the
Red Cross, she shifted her focus to short stories for children, publishing
several works of that variety at the Philippine Junior Red Cross Magazine.
[1]
She retired from public life after retiring from the Red Cross, dying in
April, 2008 at the age of 99.[2]

SUMMARY

Fabian is insecure of his brothers handsomeness. When

they were harvesting, they talked about the five carabaos
wherein Vidal must marry Milia. It was because their need
of carabao for plowing the fields. While they were talking,
a not exactly young or beautiful girl came named Miss
Francia. She called out Vidal saying hes a perfect model.
Fabian also noticed the woman. Miss Francia noticed
Fabian and approached him praising his arms. After the
chatting, the brothers went to work again until sunset. On
their way home, Vidal saw a moth and paused to catch it
but then; his brother crashed the moth in no time. Vidal
asked, Why are you that way. Fabian replied, What is
my way?. That way of destroying things that are

beautiful like moths, Vidal answered. Things that are

beautiful have a way of hurting. I destroy it when I feel a
hurt, Fabian explained. While eating dinner, Tinay did
not join them for she cannot leave her baby and her
daughter Trining was playing siklot in a corner all by
herself. Fabian keeps on telling that Vidal must marry
Milia so that they could have five carabaos. For the reply,
Vidal said that he will go with Miss Francia to the city to
work as her model.