Literature of the Philippines

1. REGION 1
ILOCOS REGION

2. Region I
• Referred to as the Ilocos Region mainly because it is
home to a majority of Ilokanos and the seat of the
Ilokano culture, heritage and language.
• There are two distinct versions as to where the
word “Ilocos” originated In Isabelo de los Reyes
„Historia de Ilocos’ (1885), it evolved from the word
“ilog” (river). Ilocos means “people in the river”,
very much like the Tagalog‟s “taga-ilog” which
referred to the early settler‟s living along
riverbanks.

3. Region I
• Located on the northwestern coast of Luzon
island, it includes four (4) provinces:
Ilocos Norte
Ilocos Sur
La Union
Pangasinan

4. Region I
• The dialect or language that is use in this
region are Ilocano and Pangasinense.
• Tagalog and English are the medium of
instruction in schools.
• Ilocano is widely used by the majority people
while Pangasinense is spoken in the central
towns of Pangasinan.

5. LITERATURE OF ILOCOS
REGION

6. THE OTHER WOMAN
By: Virgilio R. Samonte

7. Virgilio R. Samonte
• He is from Laoag, Ilocos Norte. His selection, ‘’The
Other Woman” won third prize in the Carlos Palanca
Memorial Awards for Literature in 1954-55.
Samonte’s ‘’The Other Woman’’ revealed the love and
care of an aged wife too her ailing husband. At the
end, another woman in the name of Loida confirmed
her love to the sick husband of Nana Celing.

8. Characters
• Manuel-Cecilia’s husband
• Cecilia-Manuel’s wife
• Loida- the servant girl

9. Summary
Manuel possessed a vitality that was
insatiable. His healthy, younger years were
marked by a succession of mistresses. Even
servant girls were prey to his desires. Cecilia,
the wife had taken Loida, the harelip as a
househelp in a desperate hope that she would
repel him. His philandering caused the state of
penury in which they existed.

10. So it was surprising how even with his
intended imperfections, Cecilia seemed to
have loved him even more.Loida had been
with the couple since. She possessed a face
which to a stranger would most likely be
described as hideous.The cleft lip, with
repulsively livid gums went up in an angle to a
flat nose framed in an equally flat face as
though it had been bashed in by repeated fist
blows.

11. Now Manuel is dying, his appearance a far cry
from the lusty man he was once known to be
and he has the ashen look of a corpse. Cecilia
cares for him and she seldom goes out his
room. For Cecilia, Manuel has finally became
hers. Loida on the other hand had adopted an
unservantly attitude. Suspicious of strangers
and guests, she doesn''t bother to hide her
bitterness at the thought of Cecilia alone
caring for Manuel and sleeping in a room with
him.

12. She seems to bristle with suppressed anger
and moves around doing her chores in furious
haste. In one of those rare times when Cecilia
went out of the room, Loida screamed
repeatedly. Her screams sent Cecilia back to
the room where she saw Loida holding the
inert form of Manuel, screaming while tears
flowed down her face.

13. Cecilia tried to pull away Manuel from Loida but
she could not.Then fircely she struck her with
succesive resounding slaps,crying insanely for
her to release him. The nasal twang in her voice
crazier than ever, saliva flying from her mouth
saying
“No! No! I will not! He is mine , too! He loved me!
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14. PREPARED BY:
Almera Shella B. Cabogo
BSED-IIC Biological Science