W E L C O M E
~;~;~;~;~;~BLUESKIES~;~;~;~;~;~
- click the circles at the left for navigation -
Monday, May 22, 2006
your hair it's everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ahahahahaha! kanina gustong gusto ko na magpagupit but i still have to finish my freakin eng11 paper that i honestly have no idea how to organize....i'm right there...got ideas, just can't connect it all! i'm running out of time...i have to pass it today, meaning until 11:59 pm...you're hair it's everywhere!!!!!!!!!!! my station in launchcast radio (yes kumpleto) is goin' nuts! ang papangit ng pinapatugtog...oops, scratch that dahil ngayon ay naririnig ko na ang friday i'm in love by the cure...one of my absolute favorite songs....the problem with me is that eversince i've started writing in this blog, i always feel like i have to write my papers here....kasi pag word, nawawalan ako ng gana....nuts again si launchcast radio.....no more...it's better than ezra na....angels fly in the air tonight saying wasn't it just like swimmin in the rain....anyway....kung naaalala niyo dito ko pinost yung simula ng mcdonaldization paper ko at yung sp paper ko...howell!!!!
cge....i'll try it again....sorry ha, pero dito ako magttype! yehey!
Jose Dalisay’s Woman in the Box reveals the stories of the typical Filipino overseas contract worker, specifically those working in Middle East countries, who suffer untold hardships and extreme difficulties adjusting to a totally alien environment, either in the spiritual, cultural, or physical sense, hoping to give their families a brighter tomorrow. While many of these contract workers do succeed in giving their families a house and lot, a car, or start a small business after merely a few years of hard work in these foreign lands, quite a number of them meet tragic endings while going about this quest for this dream house and secure future for their families. Dalisay’s story actually revolves around the lives and fate of these luckless migrant workers such as those of Aurora Z. Cabahug, “the woman in the box”; and Filemon Catabay Sr., a convict beheaded in Saudi “for stabbing his employer’s wife in an argument over missing jewelry”. (Dalisay 1)
It is often said that literature conveys human truths and reveals things that are often ignored or hidden by conventional media. While stories like those of Cabahug and Catabay do appear quite frequently in newspapers, radio, and television either as local or foreign news or special features, Dalisay’s use of the literary form such as the short story draws out a more real (vs. “unreal”, or manipulated) presentation of the story of migrant workers. Unlike conventional media, Dalisay succeeds in contextualizing the plight of these migrant workers, adeptly fleshing out the details of each person’s specific circumstances, and his network of relationships to his family and friends and the society as a whole. Due to time and space constraints imposed by the nature of these tri-media, as well as the need to deliver the news while still fresh and within highly strict deadlines that leave very little time for research and reflection, so much context is ignored or hidden in order for the news to meet the needs of the television or radio or print format.
Conventional media also focuses on how stories will be of interest to the general audience, and stories such that of the OFWs like Cabahug and Catabay would have probably been sensationalized by the media. Unlike literature, the media almost always cuts and pastes details of the news or stories that it features and it always portrays themselves as heroes. Through the short story, Dalisay was able to fit together a handful of mismatched puzzle pieces in the characters of Cabahug, Catabay, the consul from the embassy, the security guard, the family of Catabay and others who were mentioned in the story. Dalisay was able to connect their stories with one another and readers could understand clearly how the unfortunate fates of the two OFWs came to be.
From the stories of these overseas workers, one can actually gather some socio-economic realities that serve as the background for this story.
bad idea...stuck pa rin ako sa gitna....dito lang talaga ako umaabot...got no idea how to connect everything else! this is such a pain in the butt!!!!!!!!!!!
cge....i'll try it again....sorry ha, pero dito ako magttype! yehey!
An Analysis of Jose Dalisay’s “A Woman in the Box”
Jose Dalisay’s Woman in the Box reveals the stories of the typical Filipino overseas contract worker, specifically those working in Middle East countries, who suffer untold hardships and extreme difficulties adjusting to a totally alien environment, either in the spiritual, cultural, or physical sense, hoping to give their families a brighter tomorrow. While many of these contract workers do succeed in giving their families a house and lot, a car, or start a small business after merely a few years of hard work in these foreign lands, quite a number of them meet tragic endings while going about this quest for this dream house and secure future for their families. Dalisay’s story actually revolves around the lives and fate of these luckless migrant workers such as those of Aurora Z. Cabahug, “the woman in the box”; and Filemon Catabay Sr., a convict beheaded in Saudi “for stabbing his employer’s wife in an argument over missing jewelry”. (Dalisay 1)
It is often said that literature conveys human truths and reveals things that are often ignored or hidden by conventional media. While stories like those of Cabahug and Catabay do appear quite frequently in newspapers, radio, and television either as local or foreign news or special features, Dalisay’s use of the literary form such as the short story draws out a more real (vs. “unreal”, or manipulated) presentation of the story of migrant workers. Unlike conventional media, Dalisay succeeds in contextualizing the plight of these migrant workers, adeptly fleshing out the details of each person’s specific circumstances, and his network of relationships to his family and friends and the society as a whole. Due to time and space constraints imposed by the nature of these tri-media, as well as the need to deliver the news while still fresh and within highly strict deadlines that leave very little time for research and reflection, so much context is ignored or hidden in order for the news to meet the needs of the television or radio or print format.
Conventional media also focuses on how stories will be of interest to the general audience, and stories such that of the OFWs like Cabahug and Catabay would have probably been sensationalized by the media. Unlike literature, the media almost always cuts and pastes details of the news or stories that it features and it always portrays themselves as heroes. Through the short story, Dalisay was able to fit together a handful of mismatched puzzle pieces in the characters of Cabahug, Catabay, the consul from the embassy, the security guard, the family of Catabay and others who were mentioned in the story. Dalisay was able to connect their stories with one another and readers could understand clearly how the unfortunate fates of the two OFWs came to be.
From the stories of these overseas workers, one can actually gather some socio-economic realities that serve as the background for this story.
bad idea...stuck pa rin ako sa gitna....dito lang talaga ako umaabot...got no idea how to connect everything else! this is such a pain in the butt!!!!!!!!!!!
||'| still waiting @ 5:13 PM |'||
