21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World

Name: Cristian Rey Dela Cruz

Section: 12-HUMSS A
Date: 03-16-22
Subject: 21st Century Literature

Practice task:
1. It seemed like a good price and the location was fine. The landlady promised that she didn’t
live in the building. The only thing left was to confess something important about myself.
“Ma’am,” I warned the landlady, “I don’t want to waste a trip over there. Just so you know, I’m
black.”

2. A white woman stands bereft and empty a black boy hacked into a murderous lesson recalled
in me forever like a lurch of earth on the edge of sleep etched into my visions food for
dragonfish that learn to live upon whatever they must eat fused images beneath my pain.

Practice Task: Compare and Contrast

BABY SHOES MADDIE’s FAMILY REUNION

 A woman and the man who got her
pregnant
The fact that the baby shoes were never
used indicates that the baby died either
before or during birth — quite a conflict for
a young mother-to-be.  days.
Kane published a piece in a periodical called
The Editor where he outlined the basic idea of
a grief-stricken woman who had lost her baby
and even suggested the title of Little Shoes,
Never Worn. In his version of the story, the
shoes are being given away rather than sold.
Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris
Kodjoe, Henry Simmons, Lisa Arrindell
Anderson, Maya Angelou, Rochelle Aytes,
Jenifer Lewis, Tangi Miller, Keke Palmer,
and Cecily Tyson.
As she ate a piece of birthday cake, she was
surrounded by the youngest members of the
clan, all eager for one of her stories of the old
After Madea (Tyler Perry) violates the
terms of her house arrest (which she was
subjected to in the previous film) in order
to get Joe (Tyler Perry) some medicine,
Judge Mablean Ephriam orders her to
take in a rebellious foster child named
Nikki (Keke Palmer) in order to avoid jail.

Baby shoes were bought, then the baby for maddies-family-reunion-flash-fiction. Flickr,
whom they were for died, and then the shoes Emily Allen, CC. It was a lemonade-on-the-
are being sold. porch-swing kind of day in the quiet rural town.
dealing with loss — specifically the loss The primary theme that the playwright
of a child.
The legend is that some friends bet
Hemingway that he couldn't write an entire
short story in six words (some versions say
that the challenge was for ten words or
fewer). As the story goes, he came up with
this six-word short story, considered the
shortest complete short story ever: "For sale:
Baby shoes.
explores is family conflict. He extends this
theme to the dualistic love-hate relationships
between generations and among siblings of
the same generation.
In most families, there is usually one group
put in charge of the reunion each year and it
rotates. This is true in my family’s and my
husband’s. When we were newly married, we
attended a reunion where the family in charge
brought old journal entries from their
ancestors who had passed on. One of the
family members read from the journals, but
when she did she also put on an article of
clothing from that great-grandma.