LITERARY ANALYSIS

1. THE AURORA BLANCA FALLS IS OFTEN DUBBED AS
THE“PAGSANJAN FALLS’ OF THE SOUTH. IT IS 50 KM.
FROM CATBALOGAN AND 22 KM. FROM THE TOWN
PROPER OF GANDARA,SAMAR. CLEAR COOL WATERS
FLOWS FROM THE FALLS. THE RESIDENTS OF SOME TEN
HOUSES NEAR THE FALL USED THE WATER FOR
DRINKING, BATHING AND WASHING CLOTHES. TIRED
AND WEARY HUNTERS COOL OFF THEIR BODIES AT
NOONTIME IN THIS REFRESHING WATER FALLS. TALL
TREES GUIDE THE ENTRANCE OF THE FALLS BUT
BENEATH THE COOL AND CLEAR WATER LIES THE STORY
OF THE OF AN ILL-FATED LOVE AND BEHIND THE
TOWERING TREES ARE MYSTERIOUS SOUND.
The Aurora Blanca Falls

2. The legend
Once upon a time, The falls was simply known as
Gandara, from the name of the town. It is said
that one early morning, two enchanted sisters
whose beauty is Greek-liked bathed in the falls.
The morning which followed were routine for the
sisters. But it didn’t take long before the
Spaniards came upon the scene and wooed the
sisters. Their continues meeting at the falls
blossomed into love. The four lovers could always
be seen by the natives taking a bath at dawn
every other day.

3. Falling out of Love
Three months after their first meeting, new spread
that two Spanish Romeos had married city girls. The
physical absence of two Romeos seemed to verity the
rumor. But the sisters continued to bathe in the
river but with the birds as their companions. The
birds would entertain the heart- broken sisters with
their songs. Now and then the sisters would laugh
aloud . But behind their smiling faces were wounds
of love

4. One week later
The news of the marriage of the Spanish playboys reached
the town, the naked bodies of two women were seen floating
on the falls. The bodies though were not recovered by the
natives because they sank to the bottom of the falls.
Two days after the death of the pretty sisters,
mysterious trees began to grown around the falls.
The native believe the trees are relatives guarding the bodies
of the deceased sisters. Because of this belief the natives
have spared the mysterious trees from kaingin destruction.
Without perhaps the natives knowledge, the trees serves as
watershed for the falls. No wonder the waters keep on
flowing with regularity and abundance.

5. AURORA BLANCA FALLS OF SAMAR
Soon , the natives renamed the falls Gandara to
Aurora Blanca, in honor of the two enchanted
sisters. Aurora Blanca which in Spanish, mean
“Dawn” and “ White” respectively