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Riza O.

Ponciano
LITT 1

SHORT STORY ANALYSIS


ANG KALUPI
By Benjamin Pascual

T he story “Ang Kalupi” is about a usual yet unexpected encounter of a middle-


aged housewife and an indigent boy. Aling Marta, the protagonist of the story,
did a heavy and unforgivable indiscretion - judging the boy with his physical
appearance, which led to something worse than she’d ever imagined.

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CONFLICT

The story highlighted several types of conflicts: person against person, person
against self, and of course, individual against society conflict. The person to person
conflict is clearly depicted through the encounters in the middle of the plot: the
confrontations between Aling Marta and the boy, the struggle between the police
man and the boy, and when the police man and Aling Marta were arguing.On the
other hand, he person against self conflict came about when Aling Marta was on the
way home – when she was thinking whether she did the right thing or not that
caused the sudden accident and death of the boy because of her deeds. While the
two conflicts were obviously expressed, the last conflict, individual to society, was
implied. The present society is under the impression of discriminating those that are
needy and poverty-stricken. The mere remark of the class made people judge and
devalue those who are at this state. It is clearly implied when Aling Marta, being the
critic she really was, assessed the child or the boy as someone doing dirty work to
acquire money because of his indecent appearance, thus, making way for the main
problem in the story.
PLOT

The sequence of events was clearly presented. Having its beginning, its middle, and
of course, its end. The story began with the part where the reason Aling Marta was
doing the market was stated and the protagonist’s character and personality was
introduced.The middle part of the story was comprised mainly the conflicts between
Aling Marta and the boy she bumped into in the market. Also, the character of the
boy was disclosed. Finally, the last part, the ending, revealed the real reason why
Aling Marta hasn’t found her wallet, wrapping up and concluding the story as a
tragedy.
FORESHADOWING
The role of “foreshadowing” really helped to attract the reader’s attention to the
flow of events in the story. It alerted the minds of the readers, and gave unexpected
twists and turns in the story. It gave a certain effect in which even though the
author hasn’t clearly stated the situation, it gave the reader a sense of conclusive
hunch that the circumstances were implied.

CHARACTERIZATION

The characters were clearly rendered and portrayed. The personality of each
character in the story were clearly defined through their action, and, vice versa, the
description of the author justified why they committed such act which contributed
to a better accord and construction of the story.
TONE

The story aims to voice out a certain opinion, not only by the author but also in
behalf of the less fortunate people in the society. It is clearly implied that the author
is expressing his bitterness and resent in the status of the society’s conviction which
is almost becoming a moral norm. The author expressed his distaste of the views of
the public regarding the needy through the bitter thoughts of the boy who suffered
because of other people’s blunder and view on him.
SETTING

The setting of the story played an integral part on setting the mood and atmosphere
of the story to deliver effectively what the author wants to point out when he wrote
it. This story was situated in a public place where people like the boy in the story
lurk abundantly. In this way, the story smoothly made its way into setting up the
mood of the scene for the climax to happen.
SYMBOLISM

As mentioned earlier, the individual to society conflict depicted the main symbolism
in the story. The boy represented his class of lowly recognized people judged by the
society, being Aling Marta, as she blamed her own mistake to the poor innocent boy
just because he’s indecently presenting himself in the public. The society has this
tendency to underrate its people. As time passed by, its expectation eventually
grew higher and higher that people are finding it hard to catch up with - making way
to incidents like the one presented in this story.
THEME

The main theme of this story is the unequal scrutiny received by low people from
those that are excelling in keeping up with the society. People tend to judge the
people they meet during their lives on what they look like on the outside, without
realizing that not everything that meets the eye satisfies the truth. Not all that are
seen are true. Sometimes, all it takes is a second look to see things that you should
really look at.

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