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Plot
Exposition Theme
There was a ball, a party to welcome men from An approach to literature that weaves fantasy
Europe. The girls who were staying were herded and myth into everyday life.
upstairs. Anastasia, an old mistress of the In the world of magical realism, the ordinary
mansion, told the girls of the incantation that becomes extraordinary and the magical
would make them see either the face of their becomes commonplace .
future lover if successful or the face of the devil, if
not.
Magical Realism
Rising Action
May Day Eve is an example of a story that
employs magical realism as central to the story
Agueda, as hardheaded as she was went out of was the superstition belief told by Anastasia.
their bedroom and tried the incantation, and
that was where she met Don Badoy. They had an
Literary Devices
argument and she ended up biting Don Badoy's
hand.
Third Person Point of View (Omniscient Point of View)
Climax
The story was narrated by an unknown narrator; it
was divided into two parts- the first part focusing
Doña Agueda was now telling the story to her
on Agueda, and the second part focusing on
young daughter who asked her to reveal what
Don Badoy.
she saw. Agueda said she saw the devil. The
daughter kept asking her mom to describe how
Flashback
the devil looked like, and oddly, the devil
somehow resembled her daughter’s dad.
Interruption in the chronological sequence of a
story by the narration of events which occurred
Falling Action
earlier than the time of the story.
Resolution
Of Fish, Flies, Dogs and Woman
First Person Point of View Question to ponder: How did the characters’
gender affect them?
Setting
Sociological Criticism
Market Place
Question to ponder: What is the role of the
Conflict society in honing the characteristics, especially
that of Ana and Kat?
Man vs. Man How did the society view these two women?
Man vs. Society
Of Fish, Flies, Dogs and Women in Different Perspectives The House on Zapote Street
Leonardo Quitangon met Lydia Cabading in a • Consider the background of Pablo Cabading. What is it
hospital where the latter worked as an intern. He in his past which you think pushed him to do such a
found her quiet nature interesting so he started horrible act?
courting her.
• Why was Pablo Cabading over-protective of his only
Rising Action daughter?
Symbols
Fierce dogs
Garage without a car
On a Psychoanalytic View