THE

CENTIPEDE
By:RONY V.
DIAZ
TRIVIA
  RONY V. DIAZ is an award-winning
Filipino writer.
 He has won several PALANCA AWARDS.
HISTORY OF  He joined”THE MANILA TIMES”in 2001
as executive director. He became
REGION publisher and president of the Manila
Times School of Journalism.
 He taught that English at the
University of the Philippines Diliman
and has worked for the Philippine
Government as a foreign service
corporation.
  Heis the author of the story
“THE CENTIPEDE”.
 He is a recipient of a
UNIVERSITY OFVTHE
AUTOBI PHILIPPINES fellowship for
LITERATURE, a ROCKEFELLEN
OGRAP fellowship for creative writing
HY OF and is a member of the
UNIVERSITY of the
AUTHOR PHILIPPINES WRITERS CLUB.
 Hewas born in CABATUAN,
NEUVA ECIJA on December
2,1932.
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. BROODING
. MANGLED
CHARACTER
AND :The two main
CHARACTERIZA
TION
character in RONY
DIAZ short story “THE
CENTIPEDE “ are EDDIE
and DELIA, who are
brother and sister.
SETTI . THE SETTING OFVTHE
STORY “THE
NG CENTIPEDE”
>At home the narration
EDDIE shares with his
sister DELIA. While the
setting is not named.
PLO . Eddie is a little kid who

T
often gets picked on by
his sister

 .when
He describes a time
he went into her
dollhouse and broke one
of her dolls at the mouth,
and had to go to the
hospital.
CLIMA
X  The turning point of the story
 >Occurs when EDDIE
feels guilty for what
he’s done to DELIA.
FALLING >He’s trying to make
amends with her by
ACTION showing her the
CENTIPEDE is dead.
>His protagonist
decidely loses to her
protagonist in this final
scene.
  .MAN vs. MAN.
 EDDIE and DELIA has not
CONFLI been in good terms and
in conflict with one
CT another since they we’re
young. They seemed to
see each other as rivals.
Delia always try to get rid
of those things that would
make her brother EDDIE
happy.
 “TO
LOVE YOUR
MORAL OWN FAMILY
LESSON MEMBER. AND
DON’T LET
YOUR ANGER
CONSUME YOU”
  “The harshness of the
sister claiming and
THEM complaining about
what EDDIE does and
E has. The CENTIPEDE,
literally the insect,
explains the sister
and that it was like
the hard feelings
EDDIE has felt throuh
the years. MoMo
  “The CENTIPEDE “ is
SYNOPSI a short story by
FILIPINO AUTHOR
S OR RONY V. DIAZ, which
SUMMAR was published in
1953.The story
Y focuses on a boy who
seeks revenge against
his sister for her
cruel and spiteful acts
toward him.
POINT
OF BEING
VIEW UNDERSTANDABL
E TO THE
SITUATIONS
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