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Mariana is angry with her irresponsible and lazy husband Victor. He spends his days drinking and eating dog meat with friends instead of working to support his family. Mariana wants to abort her baby because she can no longer tolerate the poverty and lack of stability caused by Victor's behavior. When she sees Victor's dog, her anger boils over and she kills it. The last paragraph reveals that in the two years since eloping and having a child, Mariana's life has become one of poverty, lack of progress, and unhappiness due to Victor's failure to provide for or care for his family.

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Philippine Literature

Mariana is angry with her irresponsible and lazy husband Victor. He spends his days drinking and eating dog meat with friends instead of working to support his family. Mariana wants to abort her baby because she can no longer tolerate the poverty and lack of stability caused by Victor's behavior. When she sees Victor's dog, her anger boils over and she kills it. The last paragraph reveals that in the two years since eloping and having a child, Mariana's life has become one of poverty, lack of progress, and unhappiness due to Victor's failure to provide for or care for his family.

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MODULE-3

PHILIPPINE LITERATURE
Acedera Rosito Jr, D.
BSICT-4A

Activity 11: Check your understanding


Using Leoncio P. Deriada’s The Dog Eaters, answer the following questions below in three to
five sentences. See Appendix A for rubrics and see Appendix B on page 55 for the story.

1. What is the real cause of Mariana‘s anger towards her husband?

Answer:
The real cause of Mariana’s anger, is that her husband is irresponsible and very lazy.
Mariana can stand it anymore. She is very mad because it is not the life she expected to have.
Mariana’s husband shows sense of irresponsibility as he thinks that he was still single and he can
mingle and drink tuba with his friends every day.

2. Analyze the personality of Victor. What kind of a husband and father is he?

Answer:
Victor is an irresponsible husband and a very lazy father. He just loves to drink tuba and
eating dog with his friends early in the morning. Victor didn’t think he has a family that he is a
father he only thinks that he is single and free to mingle.

3. Why does Mariana want to abort her baby? Discuss Victor ‘s reaction to this
decision.

Answer:
Mariana want to abort her baby because she can stand it anymore and trying to drink some
liquid herbal that she bought desperately from Alling Elpidian for 40 pesos. She and Victor had a
quarrel. Victor threw a bottle of herbal liquid out of the window and it was broken.

4. Why did Mariana kill the dog?

Answer:
Mariana kill the dog because she is angry to victor and at that time Mariana saw victor's
dog ramir, she killed the Dog. And for a long time living in Artiaga Street, mariana cried.

5. Explain the last paragraph of the story. What does this reveal of Mariana‘s
situation in the light of what she experienced during her stay in Artiaga St.?

Answer:

After her quarrel with Victor about his drinking vices and eating dog meat, Mariana sat down
and contemplated her dwindling and regressing life in the past two years being married to her a
pathetic and unambitious husband Victor, living in their rental home at Artiaga St. It dawned on
her that that after eloping with Victor two years ago and bearing a child ceased her from
pursuing a diploma in college and ultimately she bore the repercussion of poverty along with her
unambitious, idle, and misogynistic husband who barely has a stable job and is a complete
inebriant. The lack of progress, growth, comfort, and at the very least, stability in aspects of
financial and health support within their marriage and household ultimately pushes her to
extremes of utter unfulfillment, dissatisfaction, adversity, dejection, and even madness. This
culmination ended with her wanting to abort the child she is currently bearing.

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