LITERATURE OF SOUTHERN MINDANAO (DAVAO REGION)

THE DOG EATERS

By: Dr. Leoncio P. Deriada
 AUTHOR’S BACKGROUND

• DR. Leonicio P. Deriada was an award-an

fictionist, Playwright and Poet.
• Received his Ph. D in English at Suliman State
University in Dumaguete City, Negros.
• He is also a Head of Central Filipino Language
at UP Visayas and Associate of the UP
institute of Creative Writing.
 THE SUMMARY

Victor who is a former Body Builder and Club

Bouncer married Mariana who is an
Undergraduate College because she gets
pregnant. Victor and his friends (The Dog
Eaters of Artiaga Street) are always drinking
Tuba early in the morning at Sergio’s store
with Dog dishes as their pulutan.
Mariana was very mad because it is not the
life she expected to have. She takes care of
their 8 months old and now she’s bearing
another one in her womb.
She can’t stand it anymore and try to
abort her child by drinking some
herbal liquid which she bought
desperately from Aling Elpidia for
40pesos. She and Victor had a
quarrel. Victor threw a bottle of
herbal liquid out of the window and
it was broken. Marian pounded
Victor with her fist but the man
carried it. Suddenly, Mariana saw
Victor’s Dog Ramir, she killed the
Dog. And for a long time living in
 RISING ACTIONS
• Mariana bought a potent from Aling Elpidia to abort her child.
CLIMAX
• Victor discovered that Mariana wanted to kill her child.
FALLING ACTIONS
• Victor threw the bottle of potent and they have an argument
RESOLUTION
• Mariana saw Victor’s Dog Ramir and she killed it.
POINT OF VIEW

Third Person
SETTING
• Artiaga Street, Davao
City
• The 1970’s
 CHARACTERS
MARIANA
-Collegiate Undergraduate
-The wife of Victor

VICTOR
-Former Body Builder and Club Bouncer
-The Husband of Mariana

ALING ELPIDIA
- A fish and vegetables vendor
- Mariana’s Visitor who sold potent or some herbal liquid
to Marina
 Sergio
-Small Scale Store Owner, a store where
Victor and his friends drinking Tuba with some
Dog dishes as their Pulutan.

Victor’s Friends

-Some Citizens or mens od Artiaga Street

Ramir

-Victor and Mariana’s Man’s Bestfriend

 CONFLICT
• Man vs. Man
• Man vs. Self
• Man vs. Animal

The quarrel of spouse’s because o

Unstable jobs and “Enough Way o
Marian wants to abort their secon
“RAMIR”
-The dog may represent the relationship of life of
Mariana and Victor, noisy and very trouble
“THE BOTTLE OF LIQUID”
-May represent the feelings of Mariana towards her life.
Bitter.
“THE MEAT OF DOG”
-May represent the poor

SYMBOLISMS
 IMAGERY
-The image or the description of the
house of Mariana and Victor shows how
simple their life is.

- The image of Mariana and Victor

quarreling reveals the major conflict the
story which is man vs. man.
 THEME
“One’s anger must not to
blamed to the innocents
around them for the can bring
evil on oneself”
THANK YOU!