Mohd Faisal S.

Medal EIM-Kirchhoff

MOTIVATION

1. I don't agree with this statement because I believe that everyone has equal rights applicable to man
and woman.

2. Only if that particular woman is okay with the arrangement. Otherwise, I reckon 99.99% of women will
be terribly cross and not okay at all with the husband or boyfriend having affairs with other women or
men, for that matter.

3. Yes, because it is not acceptable neither men nor women to have affair.

PRE READING:

Research about adultery and concubinage in Philippine law. What do they have in common? What are
their differences? Write their definitions and how you feel about these differences.

GUIDED QUESTIONS:

1. The prefix "pre-" means “before,” so it makes sense that a prelude is an introductory action, event, or
performance that comes before a bigger or more momentous one. Preludes are often used in classical
music, as well as in novels, to set the tone for the rest of the orchestral piece or story.

2. Nenita neither feels extravagant love for her husband nor hates him. He's unfaithful, and she goes
about her life. Nenita feels that it is not her place to have an opinion, let alone take action against her
husband's activities; therefore, she blindly serves her role as obedient wife.

3. To put it bluntly, she thinks that Nenita's husband is no good. And it's hard to disagree with this
assessment given that he's a serial philanderer. But Nenita's friend doesn't just want Nenita to leave her
husband; she wants her to kill him.

4. By singing , because he had sung a total of three songs before he leaves his last breath and collapsed
on a chair, so these why the man died

5. I think nobody killed the man in the story entitles "Preludes". He died while singing. He has sung a
total of three songs before he took his last breath and collapsed.

6. The purple leaves serves as the “gun” in the story which kills the husband of Nenita.

7. Nenita killed her husband.

8. Heat stands for passion, anger, and the oppressiveness of life, which requires continual escapism. The
story begins and ends with heat, and Delgado illustrates how heat presents itself both physically and
emotionally.

9. Irony means something that is contrary to what one might expect. In the story "Preludes," the judge is
described as being disliked by his community. ... This difference between how you would expect a judge
to act and to be received and how the judge actually acts and is considered by his community is ironic.

10. " is full of ambiguities and uncertainties. Delgado deliberately leaves the reader to surmise exactly
how Nenita's husband died. We are told that Nenita took her husbandback after his affairs and nursed
him back to health when he was ill. We are also told that shebought poison, a packet of dried purple
leaves, but that she never used it on her husband. Itsimply gave her "a very calming sense of power" to
know that she had it.