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    Activity 1: A Jeepney Tapestry

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    The document is a short story that follows the lives of several characters on a jeepney during a hostage situation. It describes Queenie, a waitress struggling to support her ill mother, who is taken hostage. It also describes Aling Nora, an overworked mother of 8, and Edrex, a lonely teenage boy acting out due to neglectful parents. When Edrex pulls a gun on the jeepney, a policeman shoots and kills Edrex to protect the passengers. Throughout it all, the jeepney driver Mang Ando is indifferent and only concerned with mundane tasks like lunch.

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    The document is a short story that follows the lives of several characters on a jeepney during a hostage situation. It describes Queenie, a waitress struggling to support her ill mother, who is taken hostage. It also describes Aling Nora, an overworked mother of 8, and Edrex, a lonely teenage boy acting out due to neglectful parents. When Edrex pulls a gun on the jeepney, a policeman shoots and kills Edrex to protect the passengers. Throughout it all, the jeepney driver Mang Ando is indifferent and only concerned with mundane tasks like lunch.

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    The document is a short story that follows the lives of several characters on a jeepney during a hostage situation. It describes Queenie, a waitress struggling to support her ill mother, who is taken hostage. It also describes Aling Nora, an overworked mother of 8, and Edrex, a lonely teenage boy acting out due to neglectful parents. When Edrex pulls a gun on the jeepney, a policeman shoots and kills Edrex to protect the passengers. Throughout it all, the jeepney driver Mang Ando is indifferent and only concerned with mundane tasks like lunch.

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    Activity 1: A Jeepney Tapestry

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    The document is a short story that follows the lives of several characters on a jeepney during a hostage situation. It describes Queenie, a waitress struggling to support her ill mother, who is taken hostage. It also describes Aling Nora, an overworked mother of 8, and Edrex, a lonely teenage boy acting out due to neglectful parents. When Edrex pulls a gun on the jeepney, a policeman shoots and kills Edrex to protect the passengers. Throughout it all, the jeepney driver Mang Ando is indifferent and only concerned with mundane tasks like lunch.

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    Name: Neil Erick M.

    Valdez Date: 9-24-20

    Grade & Section: 12-7 St. Sebastian

    Activity 1

    A Jeepney Tapestry
    by Charlotte Aninion-De Guzman

    And so it began with a scream. Queenie rolled over from the front of the jeepney to its entire
    length all the way back. She was going to make a run for it, picturing herself like Katniss or some
    kick-ass action heroine from a movie. She placed her bag between her and the gun being wildly
    pointed at her face. All her life, she struggled with minimum wage as a waitress in a posh Makati
    restaurant. An only child supporting her mother who was fighting against lung cancer, she was
    steeped in debt already, until her new employer took a “liking” to her. She can’t die now. Not with
    her mother waiting for her. Not with hope shining down oh her. But, the shot rang out.

    Aling Nora screamed. She was having one heck of a day already and her first thought upon
    seeing the gunman was--where will they get the money for my funeral? At 50 years old, a lifetime
    of cleaning other people’s houses while supporting a drunkard of a husband and 8 children who
    never got to finish high school, but instead decided that getting pregnant or getting someone
    pregnant was more fun, had left her bone-dead tired and spent. Now, not only did she have to
    support her husband and children, but her ever-growing number of grandchildren as well. Maybe,
    she thought, before fainting, this was for the best and she’ll finally get her much deserved rest.

    The gunman was momentarily distracted by the old woman who fainted. The young
    policeman, still fresh and untainted by the system he was serving, decided that it was his sworn
    duty to protect the passengers. And so he seized that moment of confusion, and bravely pulled
    his gun out of his jacket’s inner pocket, and with all of his training coming into focus, he pulled the
    trigger.

    Edrex, saw the flash of light and suddenly felt the warm gush of blood soaking through his
    favorite Zara shirt and dripping on his limited edition neon green Nike shoes. He dropped his gun,
    before turning to the policeman to say, “What the freak man? I wasn’t really going to shoot you
    know.” Then his eyeballs rolled up, and the world blurred before his eyes, before he fell on the
    jeepney floor. Poor middle class boy Edrex, who came home every day from school with only the
    maids to keep him company. He felt forgotten and sad, because his parents were rarely home
    even during the weekends. He did not understand that they were moving heaven and earth so
    they could buy a house for him to inherit someday, and so that he could study in the private school
    that charges at least P100,000.00 per semester, and so that he could, as well, have the latest
    fads and go to Boracay whenever he wants. Unfortunately, all he could see was how they were
    too busy for him and how they seem to take him for granted. You see, anger tends to breed, fester
    and consume. Until one day, today to be exact, he decided that he would make them listen and
    pay attention to him. Poor poor Edrex, if only he saw his parents crawling home from work
    because they were so tired, if only he heard them cry after they were humiliated by their bosses
    when they failed to deliver the work that was expected from them, and if only, he felt joy each
    time they know that all their hard work was for the future security of their only son. No, he didn’t
    see, hear or felt any of those. You see, Edrex was always too busy staying “connected” via FB,
    Twitter, Instagram and Tumbler, but he didn’t have enough time to look up, observe, see and hear
    things with his heart. But that’s too late now. His heart, it seemed, had stopped beating.
    And all this time, Mang Ando, the jeepney driver who didn’t have his lunch yet, kept on
    thinking-- was his wife able line up for the Mayor’s free 2 kilos of rice before heading to her usual
    tongits spot? And how the heck was he gonna get rid of the bloodstains on the seats?

    1. How do the lives of the characters weave the central conflict of the story?

    With the use of their backstory it intensify the story. Telling what they’re currently going
    through makes you wonder on what will happen to them.

    2. What is the implication of Mang Ando’s indifference to the plight of Aling Nora, Edrex and
    the policeman?

    Mang Ando is thinking if his wife was able to line up for the free 2 kilos of rice. He is thinking
    of their daily life. Just like some of some us we want to have a better life so what we should
    is to just keep on living and to survive this hellish world.

    3. Write a piece of Flash Fiction given the following characters:

    – Mang Indoy - 47, a farmer


    – Aling Mona - 38, wife of Mang Indoy
    – Caring - 16, daughter of Mang Indoy and Aling Mona
    – Edgar - 7, son of Mang Indoy and Aling Mona
    Think of your own conflicts and setting of the story. Include images to make your fiction more
    interesting and detailed. Your flash fiction should not exceed 250 words but not less than 200
    words.

    Mang Indoy is a loving father of two children, Caring and Edgar together with his wife, Aling
    Mona. They live in a quiet place near the farm. Their life is peaceful they take care of each if
    one’s not feeling well especially Caring whenever her parents are tired she takes care of them
    just like what other eldest daughter do to their parents. She’s responsible and obedient. You
    could say that she’s a perfect daughter. Then Edgar at such a young age he knows his
    responsibility. He’s not just some kind of child that would play a lot and get into troubles or fight.
    At such a young age he’s already helping his father manage their farm. He would do anything to
    make the work easy. Aling Mona the wife of Mang Indoy would wake up early to prepare
    breakfast for the whole family then after that she will go to market place to sell the goods of his
    husband. She takes care of them wholeheartedly, she gives them support for their everyday life.
    Just like that their family is living a peaceful life they would do anything for each other. You
    could say that their family is full of loving people.

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