Activity on Characterization

Flip Gothic

Name: Andrade, Kathrina R. Date:

September 29, 2020
Course/year: BSOT - 2A
Schedule: Wednesday 9 AM – 12 PM

Instructions: Fill up the table below with lines from the paragraph that will help you characterize
the daughter based on what Mindy says and does and what other characters in the story say about
Mindy. In the last column, write your description on what kind of person she is based on the
chosen line.

Character: Mindy
What the character says What the What other Inference
character characters say
does
“I need six packages of blue Sent a letter “I think, Nelia, that Mindy may
1. dye and three bottles of to her parents Arminda’s problem not have
peroxide. If you call Mia, she expressing has been basically a been feeling
can tell you where to buy how much question of identity. connected to
them. Tell Mia, I’m glad fun she is I know Jun has the
she’s well and that I wish she having in the talked to Arminda, Philippines
were here with me. She’d like Philippines telling her she has before and
this place; it’s cool. Tito Ric and how Filipino blood but the other
has brought us to the beaches much Mia that she’s an people she
here, and he’s promised to would like it American citizen. I has been
take us to the rice terraces this too. She also am not sure that is within New
summer. He said the place is asked for a enough for that York except
very old, and there are blue dye child. At the for Mia.
mummies there, and there are without hospital where he Since she
fireflies at night. He also said rushing her works, Jun is treated arrived in the
some of the people there, parents. like a god; he is a Philippines,
especially the older ones, doctor and is not her character
have tattoos on their bodies. subjected to the has
(He’s already told me I can’t "looks" and the developed.
have a tattoo, so you don’t questions: where do Due to this,
have to worry.) I can’t wait you come from? Or she is
for the summer.” worse - what are attending
you? He doesn’t school and is
feel the abiding to
discrimination, not the school
as much as Arminda rules.
 may, in your
American world.”

“These past months,

she has immersed
herself in our world
- granted it is not
her world because
one day she will
return to America -
but in the meantime,
she has a better
understanding of
what it means to be
Filipino. It is
important for one to
know where one
comes from, in
order to know
where one is
headed.”
2. “For the main parade, we She wore “Arminda wanted to She had fun
wore costumes - Lola lent Filipino know more about in the
Miriam and me some of her costumes and the Sinulog festival. Philippines
old sayas; Oscar blackened had fun in the People are getting and felt like
his face and wore a huge event. They ready for the she
feathered hat. The three of us also used the Sinulog and the belonged.
had blue hair. People stopped blue dye. She Christmas She hanged
us in the streets to ask about got along decorations have along with
our hair. They fingered our now with her given way to the her family
hair and wondered how we family banners with the and cousins
turned it blue. We just including her image of the Child while finally
laughed. We did not tell them cousins. Jesus. I explained being able to
we used dye from New York. that even before cope up with
It was like a secret - our Christian days, each other.
secret.” Ubecans have
always celebrated
during harvest time.
When Christianity
was introduced, the
statue of the Child
Jesus, called the
Santo Nino, became
the focal point of
the festivities.
People dance to
 honor the Child
Jesus. In parades,
people dance to the
beat of drums. Some
people blacken their
faces and they wear
costumes and dance
through the streets
of Ubec. People do
get drunk and it can
get wild sometimes,
so one must know
where to go; I told
her this because I
could see her eyes
sparkling with
interest.”
3. “But I’ve ran out and need As Mindy is “She was pumping Mindy felt
more. Be sure and send it; but now me full of questions; she belonged
don’t rush because the school immersed then this morning, and one of
does not allow blue hair. I’ll with the she expressed the good
have to wait until summer Filipino interest in going signs that the
vacation before I can dye my culture and back to school. grandmother
hair blue again.” heritage, she After the Sinulog, I was sensing
expressed. will meet with the was how
She will now principal of the much she
be attending American School.” wants to go
school in her to school
own will. unlike
before. She is
now going to
use the blue
dye when
school is out
for summer
vacation.