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    The story is set in a mountain village in the Philippines and focuses on Awiyao, Lumnay, and Madulimay. Awiyao left his wife Lumnay because she couldn't give him a child, and married Madulimay in hopes of having a son. During the wedding celebration between Awiyao and Madulimay, Awiyao tries to comfort the heartbroken Lumnay. Lumnay refuses Awiyao's offerings of their past life together and clings to him, wishing he would stay. The reader is left unsure of what will happen to the isolated and desperate Lumnay.

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    The Wedding Dance

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    The story is set in a mountain village in the Philippines and focuses on Awiyao, Lumnay, and Madulimay. Awiyao left his wife Lumnay because she couldn't give him a child, and married Madulimay in hopes of having a son. During the wedding celebration between Awiyao and Madulimay, Awiyao tries to comfort the heartbroken Lumnay. Lumnay refuses Awiyao's offerings of their past life together and clings to him, wishing he would stay. The reader is left unsure of what will happen to the isolated and desperate Lumnay.

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    The wedding dance

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    The story is set in a mountain village in the Philippines and focuses on Awiyao, Lumnay, and Madulimay. Awiyao left his wife Lumnay because she couldn't give him a child, and married Madulimay in hopes of having a son. During the wedding celebration between Awiyao and Madulimay, Awiyao tries to comfort the heartbroken Lumnay. Lumnay refuses Awiyao's offerings of their past life together and clings to him, wishing he would stay. The reader is left unsure of what will happen to the isolated and desperate Lumnay.

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    The Wedding Dance

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    The story is set in a mountain village in the Philippines and focuses on Awiyao, Lumnay, and Madulimay. Awiyao left his wife Lumnay because she couldn't give him a child, and married Madulimay in hopes of having a son. During the wedding celebration between Awiyao and Madulimay, Awiyao tries to comfort the heartbroken Lumnay. Lumnay refuses Awiyao's offerings of their past life together and clings to him, wishing he would stay. The reader is left unsure of what will happen to the isolated and desperate Lumnay.

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    OBJECTIVES

    BE FAMILIAR IN CITE SITUATIONS


    THE TERM WHERE LOVE AND
    “MINORITY SACRIFICE
    GROUPS” MATTER

    IDENTIFY THE APPRECIATE


    DIFFERENT ONES OWN
    ELEMENTS OF THE CULTURE AND
    STORY TRADITION
    MINORITY GROUPS
    They are being
    discriminated
    by the wider
    society SIMILAR TO THE
    DIFFERENT ETHNIC
    The ones being
    neglected in the
    GROUPS
    society
    Name some of the

    in the
    THE WEDDING DANCE
    - AMADOR DAGUIO
    poet, novelist and teacher
    “Bataan Harvest” & “The Flaming Lyre”
    Served as chief editor for the Philippine
    House of Representatives before he
    died in 1966

    AMADOR DAGUIO
    CHARACTERS SETTING
    PLACE: in the hills, mountains
    AWIYAO TIME : a long time ago, night
    LUMNAY WEATHER CONDITIONS: fine
    MADULIMAY SOCIAL CONDITIONS: lower class
    MOOD OR ATMOSPHERE: sad and tense
    SOCIETY
    BACKGROUND
    Awiyao and Lumnay most likely to
    belong to the Igorot people who
    inhabit the mountain areas of
    Luzon, the largest island in the
    Philippines. The Philippine islands
    were settled by various migrants
    from Southeast Asia for centuries.
    These peoples built up a number of
    different cultures and clan-based
    social structures on the many
    islands of the archipelago.
    BACKGROUND
    The Igorot people maintained many
    of their traditional cultural
    practices through the late 19th
    century. Even today, dance and
    gangsa music form an important part
    of their celebrations.
    The story begins Awiyao has left Outside, the villagers
    at night in a his wife Lumnay are dancing in
    mountain village because she celebration of the
    in the couldn’t give wedding. Awiyao leaves
    Philippines, him a child. He to try and comfort
    where Awiyao has has now married Lumnay. He offers her
    just been Madulimay in the many items of the life
    remarried. hope of having a that they built
    son. together. Lumnay
    refuses them and
    clings to Awiyao,
    wishing he would stay.
    Awiyao Lumnay sits on the The reader is
    finally side of the left not
    leaves to re- mountain knowing of
    overlooking the what will
    join the
    blazing fire and happen to
    wedding and dancing women, Lumnay.
    Lumnay runs thinking about how
    into the her life has
    hills. changed. She has a
    sense of
    desperation, THIRD PERSON
    isolation, and (LIMITED)
    worthlessness.
    THEME:

    IF YOU truly
    a person,
    YOU MUST
    let them be
    H A P P Y.
    SYMBOLIC EVENTS
    GANGSA- represents the man in
    the wedding; strong, provide
    beat to the dance, “beat to
    life”

    FIRE- symbolizes burning


    intensity of love and hate that
    Lumnay feels.

    BEADS- promise of Awiyao to Lumnay

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