DEL ROSARIO, M. D.

June 11, 2021

MILL OF GODS
By: Estrella Alfon

I. SUMMARY

The story revolves in the life of a girl named Martha who lived a hard life. She was a daughter of Pio
and Engracia. They were living in Espelata. It began when she was bearly a twelve year old girl, in every
way she was but a child. A rather dull child, who always lagged behind the others of her age, whether in
study or in play. One night Martha awaked from the uproar in there house coming from her parents.
That night she witness her parents fighting furiously, he saw a seen were her mother is pointing a knife
in his father, she was still a child and hard to figure out what is happening during that situation. Her
father ask her to get the knife from her mother and throw it away. After the incident, her father left that
night and her mother loosened herself and began to cry. Her mother making excuses for her father,
saying it was never completely the man’s fault. Martha comforted her mother and yet the terror of that
night was not so great because it was only a terror half understood.

When Martha was 18, she fully understood the night that had been ablur to her when she was still
12. She fell in love with a guy not older than her, and her seriousness with love hindered things such as
play or game. Martha asked him about their marriage and he just laughed at her. She realized
his excuses meant that he did not want to marry her. Then one day she heard that her boyfriend
married another woman. Martha, taking in reality and knew that she had learned her lesson. That night
came back to her and made her hate her father and regret about throwing the knife. She devoted
herself praying to God and become more religious.

Now Martha is an attendant nurse and a woman wise and wary. One day at the hospital, Martha
was in the emergency room and saw a man who had been shot. She imagined that the man
was his father. The doctor she loved was in charge and she was shocked when she returned her gaze
with a look of pain on his face. She then realized that the man who had been shot was really her father.
Her father died and as she walked out of the room she saw her mother crying.

When they got home, there was a crowd who waited for them. They were the colon group who
were the witnesses to her father’s death. They told Martha that the one who shot her father
was the husband of Pio’s mistress. After hearing all of it, she went to her father and looked at his face
that seemed to be in peace and free from pain. She left her mother for them to comfort as best as they
could.

Martha went to her room and there hung a crucifix and lit a candle. She looked at the agonized
Christ, his eyes soft and deep and tender, even in his agony. She prayed but she doesn’t feel any pity and
agony for his father’s death instead he thanked that justice was repaid at last. Hoping for her life to be
better and cease to pay from the sin of her father’s coveting. She grew up and although she had some
joys, life continued to deal her many trials and tribulations, but she kept her faith alive through it all.

II. Questions appropriate from the literary piece

1. What is the theme of the story?
2. Why does it entitled Mill of Gods?
3. Why does Martha get through consequences of her father’s sin?
4. If you are Engracia, will you do the same staying with your husband even if you know he has an
affair? Will you continue your relationship?
5. What if Pio tries to change after the terror night; can he escape the mill of god?

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