Pasilyo 8
Pasilyo 8
Pasilyo 8
I. SETTING:
The setting took place along Pasilyo 8 in an entresuelo.
12:00 noon at far end of Pasilyo where ItoyBayag is working
EMERGENCY WARD at Phiippine General Hospital (5:00 pm).
10:30 pm outside the operating room where Isko was rubbing Estela’s
clammy hand to dispel her fear.
8:00 o’clock when Estela and Pareng Isko got home from working all night.
Avenida where Estela worked.
Cagayan where tiyo Pepe lived.
II. CHARACTERS:
Estela - she is the wife of Bianong and the mother 4 children namely Ikong,
Tenteng, Miniang, and Biik. She had an affair with Pareng Isko.
Bianong - he is the husband of Estela and the father s4 children. He drinks a lot
of liquor. A lazy carabao.
Biik - the youngest. He is still a baby who often cry because of lack of milk.
Pareng Isko - Bianongs’ bestfriend. he lust over Estela and had an affair with
her.
Aling Upe - has a sigue-sigue-sputnik son which she always berates. Bianong had
a debt on her.
Fishwives - the chismosa’s in tagalog. They talked about the life of others the
eventually it will spread through the community.
Doctor Bangloy - the doctor of Tenteng and Miniang. Bianong would like to
offer him gin for the payment of consultation fee.
III. PLOT:
Exposition - “One day along Pasilyo 8, in a n entresuelo that passed for
home for Bianong and Estela, for Ikong, Tenteng and Miniang and the baby called
Biik, one day the katsa curtains shut out the sky. Bianong touched a lapad to his lips,
and the baby cried from hunger, and Ikong was terrified of his father, and Tenteng
and Miniang lay as still as death, and Estela, and Estela, and Estela …”This is when
the story starts and introduces the setting and characters of the story.
Falling Action - “Bianong blinked back the tears. He had known it all along,
right from the Day of the Accident, but he played blind, refusing to admit that Isko’s
trivialities were more than what they were. Now the tears were streaming down his
face; whore, whore, whore, he shouted, his voice a hurt lament in the drift of morning
sounds. He was strangling Estela. Confess, he snarled; his fingers curled around her
neck and tightened until it distended into a lapad. He hurled the empty bottle fro him
and the scene dissolved into another morning on Pasilyo 8 when he sat on the
doorsteps, smoking a cigarette while he awaited Estela and wondered why she did not
come home.At eight o’clock, he saw the two of them. Estela and Pareng Isko, saw
how their shoulders touched as they walked down the alley. Aling Upe was looking
curiously at him from behind her small counter, while her son and his barkada
snickered. He saw all this, the brethren of Pasilyo 8 expectant; Bianong knew they
were relishing it and he deliberately spat on the ground to show them that he knew it.
Pareng Isko was loaded down with bulging paper bags, grinned a good morning.
Bianong mechanically waved them in; Estela bent to give him a dutiful peck at the
forehead, and Bianong scrutinised her sourly. It was Big Night, Estela said, and that
was the reason for her lateness. ” This is when Bianong finally find out that his
wife was cheating on him with his best friend and he wanted to kill Estela for her
adultery. Although Bianong knew it all along he still keep silent. Still created an
alibi and it looks like nothing happens.
Denouement - “Estela mentally filling out the word. A Cola billboard bounced past, a
bleak storefront, a roadside tire-vulcanizing shop that brought a whiff of burnt rubber,
Estela watched dispiritedly from her seat.stela, Biik, Tenteng, Miniang, Ikong. The
boy crouched in a corner, poised for flight; he edged warily forward at Ikong at both
shoulders, and looked at him for a long time, and embraced him. Ikong squealed and
Bianong squeezed him tighter and touched the blade to his neck and held it there until
the shoulders subsided. He lay the limp body on the bed, briefly patting the boy’s
cheek; and then he took Biik, and hugged him, and touched the blade to his neck; after
Biik, Tenteng ang Miniang, one after the other, hugging them and touching the blade
on their necks; and his nausea erupted, and he fell upon himself in a dull rage,
twisting the cold steel again and again so he could feel it, the wrenching fulfillment
and the excruciation, as it should be felt.And it was one day along Pasilyo 8, Itoy
Bayag, the jai-alai kubrador, poked his head through the door of an entresuelo at 12
noon, and came upon the darkness, and stumbled back, muttering:
Diyoskodiyoskodiyosko …” This is when Estela got into an accident and Bianong
killed himself and his children then ItoyBayag, the kubrador, saw what happen
and he shouted with an anxiety.