HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

1. Historical criticism looks at ‘the world behind the

text,’ by understanding the time the text was written
and what other events took place upon the writing
of the text.
2. Historical criticism investigates details about the
author’s life – about his family, birthplace, and
educational background that could be used to better
understand the text.
3. Historical criticism also investigates the context and
life of the reader of the text, by understanding
current events in relation to the meaning of the text.
 Man dies after jumping off NLEX Overpass
By Rey Galupo, The Philippine Star,
April 23, 2015 – 12:00AM

MANILA, Philippines - A man died after

jumping off an overpass along the North Luzon
Expressway interchange in Paso de Blas,
Valenzuela City, snarling traffic in the area
Tuesday night. Renjie Navarro died instantly
after he fell on passing vehicles along the

highway, Valenzuela
Superintendent policeArmamento
Rhoderick chief Seniorsaid.
 Reports said barangay watchmen saw
Navarro apparently waiting for vehicles before
he jumped off the overpass at around 10:30
p.m. One of the watchmen, Antonio Ligasan,

approached Navarro
not to jump but to no and tried to persuade him
avail.

Medrano said the victim’s identification

card shows that Navarro was a worker at a
factory in Barangay Parada, Valenzuela. Police
checked the closed-circuit television camera
installed in the area but it was not operational
when the incident happened.
 Task 1

• Write as many questions as you can

think of about the given article on
your notebook.
 Task 1

1. Why did he jump off NLEX?

2. Was he suffering from
psychological difficulties?
3. Did he suffer problems with the
factory he’s working in?
4. What will happen to his family?
5. Why are these incidents very
common these days?
 A Man Falls To His Death
By Dr Cirilo Bautista
1. Blood is nothing. Space is all. Is.

2. A simple diagram illustrates this:

3. where A is the tenth floor of steel and glass (He was on
4. the noon shift forging the dream to a reality fine mean
5. could slumber in, or whores, in antechamber, touch
their bone)
6. and B the level earth (Above the clogged engine
7. a shadow traced the lines on his foot, while shoot
8. his brain with firelights the money did). Put
9. down an imaginary circle around the vertical.
10.Compute the square of guilt against an integral
11.his age built when he was young: wrong,
12.axiomatic: the sum stands thus: Along
13.the curve X (none noticed the leap; what they saw

14.was the red imprint) by which we know

15.the nothing particular, the momentum
16.carried him to the point beyond the dictum—
17.Hic primus geometros—for a body physical, a
18.Mass, emits energy equal to zero, the stay
19.Necessary to arrive at a base, as in Berger’s
20.Formula for optics. Here we remember
21.the fallacy of inclusive force if we extend
22.A to the absolute (He was, a day ago, threatened
23.With dismissal for displeasing a superior)

24.and call it the Cause: heat, hunger, air—

25.these were just contingent. To recapitulate:
16.Berger’s law does not apply here, as the late
17.Projections of X show, space being non-
mathematic;
18.from A to B the descent exhibits a quick
19.increase in force, though the exact ellipsis we kno
not.
20.(The Blank and Blank Co., Inc., regrets to announce
that. . .)
 A Man Falls To His Death
By Dr Cirilo Bautista

1. What was your experience in

reading
difficult the poem?
to read? Was it easy or
Why?
2. What words make it a difficult
poem?
3. What was the tone of the poem?
How does it sound like?
 A Man Falls To His Death
By Dr Cirilo Bautista
1. Blood is nothing. Space is all. Is.

2. A simple diagram illustrates this:

3. where A is the tenth floor of steel and glass (He was on
4. the noon shift forging the dream to a reality fine mean
5. could slumber in, or whores, in antechamber, touch
their bone)
6. and B the level earth (Above the clogged engine
7. a shadow traced the lines on his foot, while shoot
8. his brain with firelights the money did). Put
9. down an imaginary circle around the vertical.
10.Compute the square of guilt against an integral
11.his age built when he was young: wrong,
12.axiomatic: the sum stands thus: Along
13.the curve X (none noticed the leap; what they saw

14.was the red imprint) by which we know

15.the nothing particular, the momentum
16.carried him to the point beyond the dictum—
17.Hic primus geometros—for a body physical, a
18.Mass, emits energy equal to zero, the stay
19.Necessary to arrive at a base, as in Berger’s
20.Formula for optics. Here we remember
21.the fallacy of inclusive force if we extend
22.A to the absolute (He was, a day ago, threatened
23.With dismissal for displeasing a superior)

24.and call it the Cause: heat, hunger, air—

25.these were just contingent. To recapitulate:
16.Berger’s law does not apply here, as the late
17.Projections of X show, space being non-
mathematic;
18.from A to B the descent exhibits a quick
19.increase in force, though the exact ellipsis we
know not.
20.(The Blank and Blank Co., Inc., regrets to
announce that. . .)
 A Man Falls To His Death
By Dr Cirilo Bautista
1. Blood is nothing. Space is all. Is.

2. A simple diagram illustrates this:

3. where A is the tenth floor of steel and glass (He was on
4. the noon shift forging the dream to a reality fine mean
5. could slumber in, or whores, in antechamber, touch
their bone)
6. and B the level earth (Above the clogged engine
7. a shadow traced the lines on his foot, while shoot
8. his brain with firelights the money did). Put
9. down an imaginary circle around the vertical.
10.Compute the square of guilt against an integral
11.his age built when he was young: wrong,
12.axiomatic: the sum stands thus: Along
13.the curve X (none noticed the leap; what they saw

14.was the red imprint) by which we know

15.the nothing particular, the momentum
16.carried him to the point beyond the dictum—
17.Hic primus geometros—for a body physical, a
18.Mass, emits energy equal to zero, the stay
19.Necessary to arrive at a base, as in Berger’s
20.Formula for optics. Here we remember
21.the fallacy of inclusive force if we extend
22.A to the absolute (He was, a day ago, threatened
23.With dismissal for displeasing a superior)

24.and call it the Cause: heat, hunger, air—

25.these were just contingent. To recapitulate:
16.Berger’s law does not apply here, as the late
17.Projections of X show, space being non-
mathematic;
18.from A to B the descent exhibits a quick
19.increase in force, though the exact ellipsis we
know not.
20.(The Blank and Blank Co., Inc., regrets to
announce that. . .)
 FOCUS
1. He was on the noon shift forging the dream to a
reality fine mean could slumber in, or whores, in
antechamber, touch their bone

2. on
Above the clogged
his foot, engine
while shoot hisabrain
shadow
withtraced thethe
firelights lines
money did
3. None noticed the leap; what they saw was the red
imprint
4. He was, a day ago, threatened with dismissal for
displeasing a superior
5. The Blank and Blank Co., Inc., regrets to announce
that…
 GROUP DISCUSSION
Refer to the numbering in the previous slide to determine the task per group.

a. Who are the character/s present in

this line?
b. What do you think happened here?
c. This line contributed to the man’s

death. How does this affect his

decision to “fall on his death”?
 Possible Answers
1. We believe this line (A) tells us that he works in a
construction site. Maybe, he is a construction
worker and their company is building a hotel or a
casino.
2. Perhaps he is desperate to earn money and that
he is not contented with his daily wage.
3. Our group thinks he did it when all of the
construction people have finished working.
4. We believe that he jumped off the site because
he had a fight with his boss.
5. We think this is from an obituary page.