Lesson 9

The Region in the

Nation
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★ The idea of the region is an important facet of our country’s archipelagic state.
★ The region defines the nation because it characterizes the diversity of the
Philippines.
★ In spite of negative implication of “Regionalism” in history, the concept of the
region is a building block that helps in expressing Filipino nationhood and Identity.
★ In terms of movement, regionality compels some of our kababayans to move from
one locality to another-usually, the city, giving rise to rapid urbanization and the
subsequent debasement of the locality.
★ There is much debate over whether governance in the country is too centralized,
to the detriment of the regions where opportunities and investment is short.
★ Literature participates in making sense of this peculiar Filipino experience by
dramatizing how the nation-region dynamic is imagined and internalized.
★ This lesson underlines how the concept of the region figures in the discussion of
the nation and identity in the Philippine literature.
Character
➔ Is the composition of a person in a work of fiction.
➔ Defining qualities of particular personages.
➔ Describing the personality of individuals in a story.

However, in the classical tradition of a tragedy, a character is represented

to yield pity, and fear from the audience.

Hamartia
➔ Means a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.
Hubris
➔ Means excessive pride or self-confidence.

Anagnorisis
➔ Means Discovery of the character’s true nature.

Pathos
➔ Means suffering.
Round Character
➔ Usually dynamically changes or transforms by the end of the
story.

Flat Character
➔ Stay the same at the end of the story and is considered statics.

Foil
➔ is a character who contrasts with another character, usually the
protagonist, to highlight particular qualities of the other
character.
Setting
➔ is the time and place in which the story takes place.

Center and the Periphery

➔ refers to those that are on the margins of society.
Genevieve L. Asenjo

Is a Filipino poet, novelist, translator and literary

scholar in Kinaray-a, Hiligaynon and Filipino. Her
first novel, Lumbay ng Dila, received a citation for
the Juan C. Laya Prize for Excellence in Fiction in
a Philippine Language in the National Book Award.
Promdi@Manila
By: Genevieve L. Asenjo
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QUIZ!!!!!
1. It defines the nation because it characterizes the diversity of
the Philippines?
2. It participates in making sense of this peculiar Filipino
experience by dramatizing how the nation-region dynamic is
imagined and internalized?
3. What is the composition of a person in a work of fiction?
4. it means a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or
heroine?
5. it means excessive pride or self-confidence?
6. it means Discovery of the character’s true nature?
7. it means suffering?
8. Usually dynamically changes or transforms by the end of the
story?
9. Stay the same at the end of the story?
10. is a character who contrasts with another character?
11. It is the time and place in which the story takes place?
12. It refers to those that are on the margins of society.
13. The author of the story in lesson 9?
14. The author’s first novel?
15. The title of the story in lesson 9?