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The Laughter of my Father

A Literary Analysis and Overview Paper

A literary work such as this entitled “The Laughter of my father” was interpreted to form
a story enriching somewhat cultural heritage and tradition. The author’s grasp and motivation to
try in exploring the ideas of social gatherings and relations highlighted much a more directed
approach for the reader. In addition, a very unusual but implicit method of describing the setting
where the story took place was not overstated to confuse the reader. It is also revealed timeline
and character portrayal. Although, it is a very interesting quality that apart maybe from the author’s
intention was on how the summary of work was revealed to invoke a tendency for the reader to be
unsettled and gradually be captured and in eagerness because of the “hint of thought” that the
reader tries to forward. Also, the writer’s intent does not necessarily present you, as the reader, a
straight-forward assumption at the ending wherein most probably should be in accordance to the
theme the story was based upon. But more often than not, notice that the author’s primary concern
was to provide the reader with enough supporting details through his effort in order for the reader
to somehow arrive at a certain level of meaning. Furthermore, the author was able to organized the
turn of events in a premeditate manner to somehow but not intently spoil the reader as it is
anticipated, he or she would therefore be hesitant by that point. A good example of this is the
shifting of character motives and personality in the long-run view of the story. This helps the genre
of creating a fusion of emotions and responses to the audience themselves. Either it is a love story,
an old-village story or a typical short story inspired by the reality of social relations, its constraints
under belief and law, and also especially family-ties. Basically, it is a narrative story that readers
would final catchy in a sense and regarded as jus a piece of reading material. The inspiration was
evidently drawn from a close friends experience perhaps or a relative. It is because the author was
rarely seen to portray the principal character in the story; here was also insufficient evidence to
draw him as such. Maybe he was just in partial appearance. Also, a disturbing factor was the
minimal supplementing of relevant descriptions. Moreover, the author’s attitude was somewhat
informatory but to be implicit. On the other hand, characterization was of poor quality such that
precision for detecting the character in the story was not really taken into rigorous consideration.
Another concern was the less priority to sustain the function of the principal character with
supporting characters also to direct the reader’s attention to a definite flow of the story. It will ruin
reader’s present mind-setting and mislead reader’s awareness towards the outcome of the story
especially the young ones in particular. The author partly reveals characterization but has an ideal
way of constructing the story backdrop in terms of orientation and supplementation of ideas to
elaborate a particular even in the material. In terms of language, the author was rigid and objective
to cater most reader’s taste. The author delivered the story in the Standard English language
including Philippine terminologies which readers would find essential and metamorphic in some
sense, leads to a constructive and be open to cultural diversity. Denotations and connotations
revealed around the reason for the story to be entitled as such and also partly explain distinct
quality the story possesses. Finally, the overall valuation of the story is effective but requires
improvement such as dramatization and character-role variation. The story stands between its
appeal to readers and the innate value on “why I should read Philippine heritage and literature”?

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