MARYANNE MOLL

BICOL WRITER
 Choose the food
that you like to eat
during merienda. If
the food is not
listed in the next
slide, tell your
teacher the food
you wanted.
 HAMBURGER
 SIOPAO
 KALINGKING,
BADUYA, KAMOTE
 PANCIT
 DOUGHNUTS
 FRIES
 CAKE
 FRUITS
 Who do you
usually have
merienda with?
 If you talk with
your companions
at merienda, what
do you talk about?
MARYANNE MOLL
 She came from
Tigaon, in the
Partido district in
Camarines Sur.
 She lived and
studied in Naga
City.
MARYANNE MOLL
 Her books are
“Awakenings
(2001),” “Little
Freedoms (2005),”
and “Married
Women
(2011/2013).”
 Tigaon is a third class
municipality in the Partido
district in Camarines Sur.
 A few big families, owned
most of the land, with
people serving them as
tenants and servants.
 Despite its rich mountain
and sea, people remain
poor in this mainly
agricultural and fishing
district.
 “AtMerienda” won
third prize in the
2005 Palanca
Awards for short
story in English.
 It
is part memoir
part family history
part fiction, a
genre Canadian
Nobel laureate
Alice Munro is
known for.
 Form 5 members in a group
and assign tasks in every
member.
 Discussion leader-
someone who will facilitate
the discussion in the group
 Word wizard- someone who
will look for the meaning of
the unknown words
 Link makers- someone who
will relate the ideas in the
text into real life situations
 Summarizer- someone who
will record the important
details and ideas shared in
the group discussion
 Who is the persona in the
story? Note that the
persona is not the same as
the author.
 Characterize the other
persons mentioned in the
story.
 Who wrote “The Purpose
Driven Life” and what is it
about? Who usually reads
this type of book?
 What
is the attitude of the
persona to the other
women in the family,
especially Bita and the aunt
who gave Candy a copy of
“The Purpose Driven Life”
during a wake?
 Doesthe character have
epiphany in the story? If
yes, in which part of the
story?
 an appearance or
manifestation especially of
a divine being
 a usually sudden
manifestation or perception
of the essential nature or
meaning of something
 Today "epiphany" carries a range
of meanings, including "an
intuitive grasp of reality," "an
illuminating discovery,
realization, disclosure, or
insight," or simply "a revealing
scene or moment." My definition
of an epiphany is "a moment of
sudden or great revelation that
usually changes you in some
way."
 In
literary texts, it refers to
what is not said, whose
voices are not heard, whose
voice dominates.
 Gaps and Silences are forms
of incompleteness in texts.
 Places where the text keeps
silent or makes no mention of
certain groups or topics
 Who is missing from the text?
 What has been left out of the
text?
A movement and a literary
theory that aims to promote
the rights and interests of
women.
 Feminists battle patriarchy, a
society controlled by men
who are considered superior.
 Lipwas: 21st Century Literature
 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog
/epiphany/201101/how-do-you-we-i-
define-epiphany-exactly
 https://www.merriam-
webster.com/dictionary/epiphany
 https://prezi.com/apjhuhdu4zyp/gaps-
and-silences/