PANPACIFIC UNIVERSITY

School of Education and Arts

Academic Year: 2020 – 2021
2nd Wave – 2nd Trimester
Urdaneta City, Pangasinan

Course Title: Survey of Philippine Literature in English

Schedule: Tuesday and Friday 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Instructor: Ms. Marie Lee Anne Castro, PhD

GABRIEL, EDMAR B. MARCH 31, 2021

BSEd English 2

SOUNDS OF SUNDAY
1. What techniques of storytelling does the author use? Explain your answer (10
points)

The author made the story personal and easy to relate to. Even though it was written a
long ago, this story is still relevant to our country, Philippines, since Christianity is
dominant and already 500 years that Christians believe in and respect the sanctity of
marriage. The story is all about the life of the married couple that was being tested and
led to break downing their marriage, in short divorce, that most of the Filipinos
experienced and experiencing it. It is personal because it is a personal thing of married
couple and easy to relate to the story because it is the biggest fear of every couple.

2. What caused the Gorrez marriage to break down? (5 points)

And when he
happened to get an immoral job, this gave him the reason to further go down and
destroy his marriage.
And when he
happened to get an immoral job, this gave him the reason to further go down and
destroy his marriage.
And when he
happened to get an immoral job, this gave him the reason to further go down and
destroy his marriage.
And when he
happened to get an immoral job, this gave him the reason to further go down and
destroy his marriage.
And when he
happened to get an immoral job, this gave him the reason to further go down and
destroy his marriage.
And when he
happened to get an immoral job, this gave him the reason to further go down and
destroy his marriage.
And when he
happened to get an immoral job, this gave him the reason to further go down and
destroy his marriage.
And when he
happened to get an immoral job, this gave him the reason to further go down and
destroy his marriage.
When Doming Gorrez happened to get an immoral job, this gave him the reason to break
down and destroy their marriage.

3. In what sense are pain and joy, love and lust like the lights upon the wall? (5 points)

In a sense that every relationship, it is a roller coaster journey where in the couple will
face ups-and-downs that will test them for better or worst. Likewise, pain and joy, and
love and lust will be part of the life as a couple that makes the relationship stronger or
weaker and it depends on how the couple will manage it and take care their relationship
so that it will be a healthy.

4. Explain the line: Ï have left you because I cannot live without you?” (5 points)

When we express our love to someone, sometimes we give it all. We gave all the love
that we have which most of the time we forgot to left love for ourselves. We can love
someone beyond how we love ourselves. “I have left you because I cannot live with you”
simply means we choose to leave our love ones not because we do not love them
anymore but because we are afraid that someday when we already gave it all we could
and get used to it, out of nowhere they would leave us and because of our love for them
we are not ready and we do not see ourselves living without them. When we are loving
someone and get used to it, it is also the starting point that we cannot live without them,
that is why some of us will choose to leave the person we really and genuinely love not to
deny it but to save ourselves from the trap of love that most of us are not able to control it
well in balanced.

5. Discuss the question: “Could you kill love with a surfeit of loving?” (5 points)

Love is an abstract. We do have our own definition and measurement of love depends on
our own knowledge and perspective about it. But generally, could we really kill love with
a surfeit of loving? Love is the only feeling that cannot be faked or forced, teach or learn.
Love is a genuine feeling, expressing it spontaneously. Sometimes, it is also our
weakness because some of us when it comes to loving someone, they love someone
beyond the love that they have for themselves. We cannot kill the love with a surfeit
loving but eventually the love itself will fade away but not totally removed because love
stays through the good memories that we have with the person we love, and it keeps
reminding us that once upon a time we were so in loved to our special someone, and that
love story, happy or sad ending, will be part of us.

6. Comment on the line: “She had loved Domingo Gorrez with everything that she had
been but they had been careless, and one paid for carelessness like this” (5 points)
 Sometimes, lack of communication and understanding ruins a relationship. Even though
we really love someone, there will be always temptation, temptation of questioning and
doubting if we really love that person and we want that person to be with us until our last
breath, temptation to commit mistakes against the promise of each other, temptation to
betray him/her, temptation to leave him/her, etc. We cannot run away with temptations
because it is made to test us and prove ourselves how staunch we are. That is why, I
immensely respect the sanctity of matrimony because it makes 2 persons, man and
woman, as 1, but sadly because of the challenges of life especially the temptations,
married couples often forgotten their promises to each other for better or for worse and
some leads to divorce and choose to have a broken family, and that is the price of the
carelessness of one that must be paid.

7. Evaluate the story’s literary elements and style of writer. (10 points)

● Plot

Introduction

The story started on the day when Emma was out to meet her old friends. Felt nostalgic in
her antique metropolis in Tayug, reminiscing golden memories along with the time while
she accidentally bumped into Domingo numerous years ago. Emma starts to flashback
her tragic lifestyles in Sampaloc, wherein their marriage lifestyles began to crumble.

Rising Action

Challenges in their marriage starts to test their relationship, obstacles and shortcoming
they had that ruined their marriage. During the time when their business starts to blow up
with Cashio’s partnership, a terrible incident happened when made a scandal after she
wrecked the Glockner and turned upon Nora, holding Nora’s slim. Emma did not go back
to the press again. Emma wanted to go back to Tayug, but Domingo did not listen.

Climax

Domingo had an immoral job business with Navarro, Emma was against it, she tried to
stop her husband, the two had a fight, but it didn’t change the mind of her husband. The
greed for power and money triumphs to Domingo over his wife and his marriage.
Domingo never listened to his wife, his ego that made his heart turn into stone.

Falling Action

Emma finally decided to leave her life and left Doming in Sampaloc and went to Tayug
where her hearts belong, along with her children. Her exhausted heart that manipulates
her decision in going back to Tayug; the reason behind her departure was not to end their
relationship, but to recharge her heart from the exhausting life she had in Sampaloc.
 Resolution

Emma’s old lover, Rene Rividad, came back, but this time, he asked her for marriage but
he was still married to his wife in the paper. Emma got confused by it, she perhaps loved
him already nor because Rene was the opposite of Domingo. Despite her freedom from
violence, she can’t help but to yearn for her husband’s warmth.

● Character

Emma – Abused wife and the protagonist of the story that worries a lot about her
husband.
Doming – Husband of Emma who got immoral job that led to break down of their
marriage.
Rene Rividad – old lover of Emma who asked her for marriage while he was still
married with his wife.

● Setting

The events inside the tale happened in Tayug wherein Emma lives, Sampaloc in
which Emma and Domingo stays, out of doors of Plaridel high college Emma met
Revidad after she left her husband in Sampaloc, on the bus station where Domingo and
their children bid farewell to Emma in going domestic to Tayug whom she dreamed of,
their condo, restaurant where Rene confessed to Emma.

● Theme

Love retains eternally. Even though we have shortcomings once we invested love to a
person and ended happy or sad, the love that we felt will remain eternally because of the
golden times and good memories we spent with the person we love.

● Point of view

The story is first person point of view because it was narrated based from the narrator’s
perspective about the story.

● Conflict

Man versus Man

A conflict is sometimes described as the situation where the protagonist battles the antagonist.
In The Sounds of Sunday, the conflict, a man versus man type, is twisted in a sense
that it is
manifested into a curious form. This is exhibited on the fact that though the story settles on a
typical
domestic dispute between the husband, Domingo and the antagonist, and wife, Emma who is the
protagonist, and centers on the conventional abuses she gets from him, Emma does not entirely
acknowledge this. Instead, she was trying to get closer to her husband and was ready to put his
abuses behind them. Instead of pulling away, she wanted to get closer to him even by means of
leaving and hoping that he would miss her. That, if only her husband would submit to it. So,
basically,
the conflict exists but was molded by the feelings the protagonist possessed for the antagonist.
A conflict is sometimes described as the situation where the protagonist battles the antagonist.
In The Sounds of Sunday, the conflict, a man versus man type, is twisted in a sense
that it is
manifested into a curious form. This is exhibited on the fact that though the story settles on a
typical
domestic dispute between the husband, Domingo and the antagonist, and wife, Emma who is the
protagonist, and centers on the conventional abuses she gets from him, Emma does not entirely
acknowledge this. Instead, she was trying to get closer to her husband and was ready to put his
abuses behind them. Instead of pulling away, she wanted to get closer to him even by means of
leaving and hoping that he would miss her. That, if only her husband would submit to it. So,
basically,
the conflict exists but was molded by the feelings the protagonist possessed for the antagonist.
A conflict is sometimes described as the situation where the protagonist battles the
antagonist. In The Sounds of Sunday, the conflict, a man versus man type, is
twisted in a sense that it is manifested into a curious form. This is exhibited on the
fact that though the story settles on a typical domestic dispute between the husband,
Domingo and the antagonist, and wife, Emma who is the protagonist, and centers on the
conventional abuses she gets from him, Emma does not entirely acknowledge this.
Instead, she was trying to get closer to her husband and was ready to put his abuses
behind them. Instead of pulling away, she wanted to get closer to him even by means of
leaving and hoping that he would miss her. That, if only her husband would submit to it.
So, basically, the conflict exists but was molded by the feelings the protagonist possessed
for the antagonist.

● Diction

“We would live in Tayug quietly and modestly,” she said.

“We want the things that will last” she said.

“The money lasts. You like the money, don’t you?” he asked.

“I don’t deserve that,” she said.

“Em, Em,” he said in a voice, approximating the old tenderness.

“You are the child, not I. You see ghosts where there are none.”