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    Name: Joshua A.

    Porteros Journal # 1: Engaging Texts


    Grade and Section: 11-Bl.Villana D’Botti Score: ___________

    1. Discuss grandfather’s life from his youth up to the time he got married.
    -He found himself outside their military camp, telling the soldiers that he knew how to cook rice and
    polish shoes. For nearly three years he starched uniforms and poured sake, almost collapsing under
    the deafening siren of the air raids that jolted him awake at night. When the war was over, he went
    back home to his mother’s house. By that time his piano teacher had died of lupus, and she sat alone
    on the wicker chair, scarcely lifting her head as she told him: “Oh, Exequiel. Buhay ka pala.” He could
    not forget those words; how his mother’s vacant eyes looked past his broad, stocky shoulders and the
    moustache that grazed his upper lip. He did not know her at all, and after she had sold their piano, the
    only sound in their house was the tapping of her fingernails against her tocador. Her Lolo left for
    university, he sat on the bench and watched the bus whisk him away. He did not say good-bye. It was
    in Manila where her Lolo started smoking; selling handwritten poems off to friends and classmates
    who wanted to please their lovers.

    2. The narrator of the story, the grandfather of Exequiel, said that” “[i]t was almost inevitable that
    Remedios would come along.” Why does she say this?
    -It was almost like she knew a relationship would develop between her grandparents after seeing their
    connection. It was something she thought was almost certain to happen, if not impossible. She came
    to the realization that it could also be down to their connection, which she described as a "abrupt,
    intense affair that resulted in the destruction of their marriage."

    3. After her grandfather slipped into a coma, the narrator shares that “Lolo was a shell, and so was I.”
    Explain why the narrator believes this.
    - “Lolo was a shell, and so was I.” When someone is "in a shell," they are reclusive, unresponsive, and
    possibly antisocial. This is her lolo's real condition. After the stroke, her lolo was in a vegetative state
    and comatose; her granddaughter was also numb and didn't even cry a single tear.

    4. The story concludes with the narrator joining her family to pray for her grandfather’s soul. Discuss
    the Event that led to the narrator’s change of heart toward her grandfather.
    -I believe forgiveness was the cause for the narrators' change of heart. True forgiveness involves good
    thoughts toward the offender, but experts believe that it at the very least means letting go of deeply
    held bad feelings. In this way, it allows you to acknowledge your suffering without letting it to define
    you, allowing you to recover and go on with your life.

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