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Module III:

The Landscape of Philippine Fiction

“If there is one thing Filipino love, it is a good dramatic story. Filipinos easily attached to the story and its characters basically because they relate to the lives of the characters as if they were also part of the story.”

FICTION

Fiction is a story that is entirely made up and is not true. At times, fiction may resemble reality but is purely circumstantial.

TECHNIQUES OF FICTION “...Starts with a great character.”

The character in the story is the one you relate with, converse with, or listen to the toughts of. The way he or she changes as the story progress become the driving force of fiction. Sometimes, they also serve as symbols.

FRANCISCO SIONIL JOSE Also known as F. Sionil Jose. A fictionist, essayist, and novelist. He is currently considered as one of the most widely read Filipino authors. His usual themes are soical struggle and strife in Philippine society. He was awarded as National Artist for Literature in 2001.

The God Stealer written by F. Sionil Jose

A short story that escapsulates perfectly how characters in fiction respond to the choices they make and what they do to attain these choices.

Part of fiction, especially in short stories, is the challenge to the main characters: what do they want and what do they do to get it.

“What is the intention of the character?” This intention set the plot for the short story, wherein you see how well-rounded the protagonist is and what he or she is capable of doing just to get what she desires.

The character may either triumph or fail, and seeing how the character reacts to these changes also sets the tone for the climax, until the short story is concluded.

Short stories also expresses a lot of irony in life situations. There are three kinds of irony: 1. Verbal Irony--when what she said by the character is not what he or she originally meant. 2. Situational Irony--when the outcome of a situation is diffeent from the expected outcome(The twist and turns) 3. Dramatic Irony--which is when the readers know more than the characterrs in the story.

MERLINDA BOBIS

A dancer, visual artist, and writer who was born in Legaspi City, Albay. She completed her postgraduate degrees from the University of Santo Tomas and University of Wollongong in Australia wherein she is currently teaching. She tackles themes of diaspora, immigrant cultures, and magic realism. She won awards like the Philippine Book Award or Fish-Hair Woman in 2014.