BABIA, JANE ALLYSSA E.

BSED – ENGLISH 2B (SUMMER TERM)

TITLE: THE BREAD OF SALT

Week and Act No. WEEK 3 ACTIVITY 6

The Bread of Salt and Other Stories provides a retrospective selection of

sixteen of his short stories (all origina. Gonzalez has influenced an entire
About the Author generation of young Philippine writers and has also acquired a devoted
international readership. His books, however, are not widely available in this
country.

Albert – The main character of the story, a violinist young boy and the
protagonist.
Josefina and Alicia – Aida’s cousin.
Aida – Albert’s apple of the eye
Characters Don Esteban – Josefina and Alicia’s father
Pete Saez – the guy who invites Albert to join to his band.
Mr. Custodio –
Aunt –
Grandmother and Grandfather

The time of the bread of salt story was during the Spaniard time in the
Philippines. and shape. Every day he walks by the house of the old Spaniard's
Setting niece Aida whom Albert liked. With his own money but the bread was still
not ready.

The Bread of Salt is a coming of age story by Filipino national artist Nestor
Vicente Madali Gonzalez. It is about a fourteen-year-old male narrator who
Plot falls for Aida, the niece of a Spaniard plantation owner, and who realizes that
this girl is out of his league.

The bread, which is the boy, is being preserved (salt). This means there was
no loss of innocence but a preservation of maturity. The preservation of
maturity is evident in the imagery presented in the story. There are two main
characters of the story, Aida and the narrator. The author said “the bread was
Symbol not yet ready. The bread symbolizes the boy. He was not yet ready to face
the real world; he was still young to understand life’s challenges. For
example, his dream of being together with Aida didn’t happen, but was not
ready to accept this. He didn’t realize that God has a better plan for him,
because he was still young.

The conflict of the story was his aunt didn’t approve of him joining the
orchestra. Another thing was, the story has a concept of man vs. society. The
story also showed a dramatic or progressive plot because even though the
boy felt down after what happened that night, Pete still cheered him up and
Conflict the story ended there. There was no symbolism in the story, but the story was
titled Bread of Salt because the story started there. He wouldn’t have seen
the girl if he didn’t go to the bakery in the first place. And like the pandesal
that wasn’t ready yet mentioned in the end, the boy wasn’t also ready to face
society’s truth.
 The point of view of the story is a first-person narrator. The story revolves in
the title bread of salt because it all started when he was buying pandesal
Point of View every morning in the bakery near the great Spanish house where his mestiza
classmate Aida lived and where he begun to fall in love with Aida.

As we grow older, life unfolds before us the reality of the world where we
are living. It may not be as what we believed it to be. Once we discover that
we cannot always have what we want, we oftentimes, just close our eyes to
reality. We continued on dreaming because dreaming was good. But then, we
have to face the fact that we are not existing in the world of fantasies. We
can deny this reality but it is only through accepting the truth that can set us
Reflection free from the prison of our own illusions. Describing this kind of bread, we
can compare it to the skin color of the Filipinos which is brown. It was small
which refers to our protagonist who was still very young. His dreams about
Aida were undeniably sweet but the young boy could not distinguish that it
was impossible at the moment. They evidently belong in two different
worlds. Aida was in the upper or elite class and the young boy of lower status.