ESPIRITU, Richelou Mae B.

SORIANO, Jona Rose P.

MORNING IN NAGREBCAN BY MANUEL ARGUILLA

(LITERARY ANALYSIS)

A. SETTING
NAGREBCAN

It was sunrise at Nagrebcan, and as the sun starts to give warmth to the whole barrio. At the house of Baldo
in Nagrebcan, situated near the cornfields and tobacco fields where the Katayaghan Hills.

B. CHARACTERS

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CHARACTER PRINCIPALITY DEVELOPMENT PERSONALITY
BALDO PROTAGONIST STATIC FLAT

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AMBO SUPPORTING STATIC FLAT
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NANA ELANG SUPPORTING STATIC FLAT
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TANG CIACO SUPPORTING STATIC FLAT
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BALDO (10 year old boy)

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 CYNOPHILE, a lover of dog

“He sat on the lowest step of the ladder, yawning and rubbing his eyes one after the other.
Bending down, he reached between his legs for the blak-spotted puppy. He held it to him,
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stroking its soft, warm body. He blew on its nose. The puppy stuck out a small red
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tongue,lapping the air. It whined eagerly. Baldo laughed—a low gurgle.

He rubbed his face against that of the dog. He said softly. “My puppy. My puppy.” He said it
many times. The puppy licked his ears, his cheeks. When it licked his mouth. Baldo
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straightened up, raised the puppy on a level with his eyes. “You are a foolish puppy” he
said, laughing. “Foolish, foolish, foolish,” he said, rolling the puppy on his lap so that it
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howled.
 AFFECTIONATE BROTHER
“You foolish boy, remove the skin”, Baldo said. “I will not.” Ambo said. “It is not your banana.” He
took a bite and swallowed it with exaggerated relish. “But the skin is tart. It tastes bad”. You are not
eating it,” Ambo said.

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 C. PLOT
Linear Plot (Chronological Order)

Exposition (First to fourth paragraph)

-It describes the scene and introduces the setting and the main character (Ambo)
-Gives description to the characters of the story.
RISING ACTION
- When the two boys sat beside each other and both played with the puppies. They sniffed he hands of Ambo and
licked his fingers. They tried to scramble up his breast to lick his mouth, but he brushed them down. Baldo laughed.
CLIMAX
-When the puppy was abused by Tang Ciaco.
The puppy attempted to follow them but Tang Ciaco caught it with a sweeping blow of the piece of firewood. The

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puppy was flung into the air. It rolled over once before it fell, howling weakly. Again, the chunk of firewood

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descended, Tang Ciaco grunting with the effort he put into the blow, and the puppy ceased to howl. It lay on its side,

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feebly moving its jaws from which dark blood oozed.

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FALLING ACTION

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-When their mother comforted them after Tang Ciaco beat Ambo and Baldo.
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Nana Elang knelt by her children and dusted their clothes. She passed her handover the red welts of Baldo, but
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Baldo shook himself away. He was still trying to stop sobbing, wiping his tears away with his forearm with his
forearm. Nana Elang put one arm around Ambo. She was crying silently.
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-The two boys dug a grave for the puppy.

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When Baldo finished his work, he and his brother gently placed the puppy in the hole. Then they covered the dog
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with soft earth and stamped on the grave until the disturbed ground was flat and hard again. With difficulty, they
rolled a big stone on top of the grave. Then Baldo wound an arm around the shoulders of Ambo and without a word,
they hurried up to the house.
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CONFLICT:
MAN VS. MAN
-The fight between Ambo and Baldo when Baldo wouldn’t let him touch the puppy.
-When Baldo was beaten up by Tang Ciaco
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D. POINT OF VIEW
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-Third Person POV

E. THEME
“Even the smallest voice needs to be heard”
“There is something about family that makes us behave in strange ways, like we would always choose to
obey what they want us to do even if it would mean to sacrifice our own happiness”
F. VALUES
“Learn to appreciate every living things on Earth”
“Learn to listen before reacting’

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 G. SYMBOL
SUNRISE IN NAGREBCAN- NATURE, NEW HOPE, PROVINCIAL LIFE

It was sunrise at Nagrebcan. The fine, bluish mist, low over the tobacco fields, was lifting and thinning
moment by moment. A ragged strip of mist, pulled away by the morning breeze, had caught on the clumps of
bamboo along the banks of the stream that flowed to one side of the barrio. Before long the sun would top
the Katayaghan hills, but as yet no people were around. In the grey shadow of the hills, the barrio was
gradually awaking. Roosters crowed and strutted on the ground while hens hesitated on theri perches
among the branches of the camanchile trees. Stray goats nibbled the weeds on the sides of the road, and the
bull carabaos tugged restively against their stakes.

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