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peculiar chicken

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I.

Title: My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken


II. Author: A short story by a Filipino writer Alejandro R. Roces, My Brother’s Peculiar
Chicken was first published in 1958 and has become one of the most famous works of
Philippine literature.
III. Setting: The story happens in the cornfields, house and cockpit.
IV. Characters: Alejandro (Speaker and Kiko’s brother)
Kiko (Alejandro’s brother)
Mother and Father (Parents of Kiko and Alejandro)
Chief of the Village / Teniente del Barrio (Oldest man in the village)
Mr. Eduardo Cruz (Owner of the largest poultry business in town and
studied poultry raising at University of the Philippines)
V. Plot:
One early morning at the cornfield, Kiko and his younger brother Alejandro saw two
chicken fighting from the distance and got interested at one of the chickens. Kiko took
the chicken and when they saw that it brandishes a strange mixture of hen and rooster
features and the two brothers got into an argument as to whether it was a hen or a
rooster. Alejandro insisted that the chicken is a hen for it had spurs and tail of a rooster
as well as the chicken crowed.
By noon time, Alejandro and Kiko went home still arguing about the strangeness of
the chicken which their parents heard and also started to have their own debate until
Kiko thought that it is best to settle the issue by going to the chief of the village but the
chief unable to provide a clear answer.
Kiko got a new idea which is to bring the chicken to Mr. Eduardo Cruz who studied
poultry raising, however he too was unable to distinguished the identity of the chicken
for it had feathers of both a hen and a rooster leading to Mr. Cruz offered to kill the
chicken to analyze its anatomy. Then, Kiko made an agreement with Alejandro that if the
chicken fought in a cockpit and wins it is then a rooster, in which Alejandro agrees.
So they went to the cockpit, the chicken fought the red rooster However, the red
rooster courted the peculiar chicken but the peculiar chicken attacked the red rooster
and killed it. The crowd watching the fight thought that it was a fixed game and they
started to shout and used bamboo benches as clubs which started a riot, so Kiko and
Alejandro had to leave and went to the backway and run to safety into the coconut
grooves, till they lost the mob.
Finally, Alejandro agreed that it was indeed a rooster and the argument ended but
then the chicken began to quiver and cackled which to their surprise the chicken which
they agreed was a rooster laid an egg.
a. Conflict:
It is about the gender of the peculiar chicken. The chicken is peculiar because it has
both the parts of a rooster and the parts of the hen. Thus, the main characters do not
know whether the chicken is a hen or a rooster.
b. Climax
When Kiko and his brother decide to bought the chicken in a cockpit and have it
fight a rooster. They agree that if the chicken wins the fight, then it is a rooster and not a
hen. The rooster falls in love with the chicken and performs a love dance.
c. The Resolution:
The chicken kills the rooster and wins the fight but in the end of this story, the
conflict is resolved. The chicken lays an egg and the characters finally learn that the
chicken is a hen.
VI. Theme: The theme of the story is comedic because the writer himself involving the
issue of cockfighting, a popular Filipino sport.
VII. Tone / Voice: The story used a first person point of view in telling a story because the
one who is telling the story is Alejandro,
VIII. Moral: The story teaches us that somethings are not always as they seem; the
appearance can deceive many. You can’t always expect others to agree with you,
because they also have their own perspective in life.
IX. Vocabulary:
Word Parts of Speech Meaning Sentence
1. Peculiar Adjective Strange; queer; odd All of them are
unique and have
their peculiar
features.
2. Squawked verb To utter a loud, The parrot
harsh cry, as duck squawked and flew
or other fowl when away.
frightened
3. whipped Adjective Having been The jockey whipped
flogged or beaten the horse to make it
with a whip. go faster.
4. Gaff noun A stick with a hook Francis find blood
or barbed spear; a on a rooster’s gaff.
metal spur for a
gamecock
5. Quiver verb The act or state of The teacher
quivering; a tremble sounded calm, but I
or tremor. caught a quiver in
her voice.

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