Estrella D.

Alfon
By : Estrella D. Alfon
About the author
Estrella D. Alfon
(July 18, 1917 December 28, 1983) died at
age 66
Was a well-known prolific Filipina author
who wrote in English.
She became a member of the U. P. writers
club and was given the privileged post of
National Fellowship in Fiction post at the
U. P. Creative Writing Center.
She has won the Palanca Awards a number
of times
Almost all of her stories are written in
English
Characters

Vicente- bus conductor, tutor, late

20s
Young girl- 7 years old
Oscar (young boy)- 8 years old
Mother
Father
Setting

Home
Downstairs hall
Evening
Plot:
Exposition

The story started with a man named

Vicente coming to the house of the
two children to tutor them with their
class works. The family absolutely
trust him for they think that this
man was always so gentle, so kind,
and there was nothing to fear with
when he is around.
Plot:
Rising Action

When Vicente came earlier usual in

that evening. The children
immediately put their lesson down,
telling him of the envy of their
schoolmates and would buy them
more pencils. Then Vicente asked
Oscar, the young brother to get him
some glass of water.
Plot:
Climax

Vicente held the little girl by the arm

then let the girl take her full trust and
when he took the little girl up lightly in
his arms and holding her underarm pits
then held her to sit down on his lap. Then
the girl keep squirming and for somehow
she felt uncomfortable to be held and
looked around at Vicente interrupting
her careful writing to twist around.
Then Vicentes face was wet with sweat
and his eyes look strange.
Plot:
Falling Action

The girl jumped away from Vicentes

lap then the mother came down
stairs holding in her hand the
merienda for them. She talked to
Vicente & slapped him then throws
him out of the house.
Plot:
Resolution

When the mother bathed the little

girl and she throws the clothes at the
garbage bin and on the next day
burned it with the pencil on it.
Theme

Trust and Love

How a mother will turn
to a woman to fight for a
mothers rights in terms of
abuses.
It shows the
empowerment of woman.
Point of view

The author use third person point of

view
Omniscient point of view, because the
author sees all, knows all & tells all
what is the story supposed to be.
Moral Lesson

We must not be an apathetic person

that we must be aware of what really
a stranger could to us!

TRUST IS NOT INHERITED, BUT IT

IS GAINED!
Why it is entitled
Magnificent?