Written Work 2 - Imagery (How my Brother Leon brought Home a Wife by Manuel E.

Arguilla)

Visual Auditory Olfactory Gustatory Tactile Organic Kinesthetic

1. She stepped
down from the
carretela of Ca
1. I watched Ca
Celin with a quick, 1. And I thought of 1. But she came
1. "And this is 1. She was fragrant Celin, where he
delicate grace. She the food being and touched
Labang of whom I like a morning when stood in front of his
was tall. She looked made ready at 1. She was lovely Labang's forehead
have heard so papayas are in horse, and he ran
up to my brother home and my with her long
much." bloom. his fingers through
with a smile, and mouth watered. fingers
its forelock
her forehead was
on a level with his
mouth.
2. The thick,
unpleasant smell of
2. He swallowed dangla bushes and
and brought up to cooling sun-heated 2. I did not say 2. And by and by
2. Her nails were
his mouth more cud earth mingled with anything but tickled she was scratching
long, but they were 2. She hesitated
and the sound of the clean, sharp with my fingers the his forehead very
not painted.
his insides was like scent of arrais roots rump of Labang daintily
a drum. exposed to the
night air and of the
hay inside the cart.
3. But it was only 3. "If you continue
3. He reached for
3. And a small the name of my to talk about him
3. The wind his roll of tobacco
dimple appeared brother Leon said like that,either I
whistled against my and hithced himself
momently high on backward and it shall fall in love with
cheeks... up in the chair.
her right cheek. sounded much him or become
better that way. greatly jealous.”
 4. She laughed
then and they
4. I did not say
4. I saw that her 4. Ca Celin drove 4. His hand was laughed together
anything but tickled
eyes were on the away hi-yi-ing to his heavy on my and she took my
with my fingers the
long, curving horns. horse loudly. shoulder brother Leon's hand
rump of Labang.
and put it against
her face.
5. The sun was in
our eyes, for it was
dipping into the
bright sea. The sky
was wide and deep
and very blue
above us: but along
the saw-tooth rim of
the Katayaghan
hills to the
southwest flamed 5. I stopped
5. He faced the sun
huge masses of 5. The jolting Labang, climbed
and from his mouth
clouds. Before us became more down, and lighted
came a call so loud 5. His fingers bit
the fields swam in a frequent and painful the lantern that
and vibrant that the into my shoulder.
golden haze as we crossed the hung from the cart
earth seemed to
through which low dikes. between the
tremble underfoot
floated big purple wheels.
and red and yellow
bubbles when I
looked at the
sinking sun.
Labang's white
coat, which I had
washed and
brushed that
morning with
coconut husk,
 glistened like
beaten cotton under
the lamplight and
his horns appeared
tipped with fire.
6. She was smiling
at him, and I
stopped in the act
of tying the sinta 6. Then we were
across Labang's climbing out into
neck to the 6. my brother Leon the fields, and
opposite end of the said, laughing, and 6. With difficulty I through the
yoke, because her she laughed with turned Labang to spokes of the
teeth were very him a big the left wheels the light of
white, her eyes uncertainly. the lantern
were so full of mocked the
laughter, and there shadows.
was the small
dimple high up on
her right cheek.
7. She sat up
straight on the
bottom of the cart,
legs bent together
to one side, her 7. When he was 7. He laid it
skirts spread over quiet again, my carefully on the
7. but I knew he
them so that only brother Leon lifted windowsill before
was more thirsty
the toes and heels the trunks into the speaking.
than tired
of her shoes were cart, placing the
visible. her eyes smaller on top.
were on my brother
Leon's back; I saw
the wind on her
hair.
 8. I looked back
and they were
sitting side by side,
leaning against the
trunks, hands
clasped across
knees. Seemingly,
but a man's height
above the tops of
8. the pebbly road 8. "I am afraid. He
the steep banks of
echoed in my ears. may not like me."
the Wait, hung the
stars. But in the
deep gorge the
shadows had fallen
heavily, and even
the white of
Labang's coat was
merely a dim,
grayish blur.
9. Very low in the
west, almost
touching the ragged 9. Deep surprise
9. "Does that worry
edge of the bank, and gladness were
you still, Maria?"
was the star, the in her voice.
biggest and
brightest in the sky.
10. Now the
shadows took fright
10. and her voice
and did not crowd
flowed into his like 10. "His leg is
so near. Clumps of
a gentle stream bothering him
andadasi and arrais
meeting a stronger again."
flashed into view
one.
and quickly
disappeared as we
passed by. Ahead,
the elongated
shadow of Labang
bobbled up and
down and swayed
drunkenly from side
to side, for the
lantern rocked
jerkily with the cart.
11. "But it is so very
11. As I passed
wide here," she
through the kitchen,
said. The light of
11. We came to the there were Mother
the stars broke and
house of Lacay and my sister
scattered the
Julian and I spoke Aurelia and Maria
darkness so that
to Labang loudly. and it seemed to
one could see far
me they were
on every side,
crying, all of them.
though indistinctly.
12. There was light
downstairs in the
kitchen, and Mother 12. their answers
12. "Was she afraid
stood in the were lost in the
of Labang?"
doorway, and I noise of the wheels.
could see her
smiling shyly.
13. There was no
light in Father's
13. My father had
room. There was no 13 . All the laughter
not raised his voice,
movement. He sat seemed to have
but the room
in the big armchair gone out of her.
seemed to resound
by the western
with it.
window, and a star
shone directly
through it. He was
smoking, but he
removed the roll of
tobacco from his
mouth when he saw
me.
14. He was silent
again. I could hear
the low voices of
Mother and my
sister Aurelia
downstairs.