NOTRE DAME OF DADIANGAS UNIVERSITY

Integrated Basic Education Department

Senior High School
Lagao, General Santos City

21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World

Student’s Name: Date Submitted:

Grade & Section:

Quarter: FINALS Week No.: 15

Teacher/s:

Instructions: Read and understand “Laughing” by Dan Rhodes. Using the Reader Response Approach,
write your own analysis of the text.
Guide questions:
∙ How did you come up with that interpretation?
∙ What is/are the significant experience/s that led you to that analysis?

LAUGHING
My girlfriend died laughing at one of my funny faces. Her friends were kind and told me I shouldn't feelguilty;
that she would have wanted to have died that way. They weren't there; her musical laughter turned to
chokes, grunts, and her death rattle. When I stopped grieving, I found a beautiful new girl to love. She died
laughing at a joke I made about her feet. The next one passed away similarly. My last girlfriend didn't die.
She left me. She said we never had any fun together. That she wanted a man with a sense of humor.

Rhodes, D., (2000)

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