Posttest 4: Resolving Conflicts

Dogedog had always been very lazy, and now that his father and mother were dead and he had no one to care for him, he lived very poorly. He had little to eat. His house was old and small and so poor that it had not even a floor. Still he would rather sit all day and idle away his time than to work and have more things. (Dogedog, a Tinguian folktale)

Long time ago, there was a man named Lam-ang who started to search for his lost father. His father was murdered by the head-hunting Igorots in the Igorot country. (Biag ni Lam-ang, an Ilocano epic)

One day a little boy named Elonen sat out in the yard making a bird snare, and as he worked, a little bird called to him: "Tik-tik-lo-den" (come and catch me). "I am making a snare for you," said the boy; but the bird continued to call until the snare was finished. (The Boy Who Became a Stone, a Tinguian folktale)

One very hot day, when a carabao went into the river to bathe, he met a shell and they began talking together. "You are very slow," said the carabao to the shell. (The Carabao and the Shell, a Tinguian folktale)

"Oh, no," replied the shell. "I can beat you in a race. "When the world first began there was no land, but only the sea and the sky, and between them was a kite. One day the bird had nowhere to alight grew tired of flying about, so she stirred up the sea until it threw its waters against the sky. (The Creation Story, a Filipino folktale)

Internal Conflict or External Conflict

“Does that worry you still, Maria?” my brother Leon said. “From the way you talk, he might be an ogre, for all the world. Except when his leg that was wounded in the Revolution is troubling him, Father is the mildest tempered, gentlest man I know.” (How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife, Manuel E. Arguilla)

Internal Conflict or External Conflict

“I hope you will not think of this as a great bother,” Julio continued, trying his best to phrase out his thoughts. He had a vague fear that Ka Ponso might not favorably regard his letter. (The Happiest Boy in the World, N.V.M. Gonzales)

Internal Conflict or External Conflict

In the town of Santa Rosa there once lived a couple named Hugo and Imelda. Every mealtime they quarreled over the chore of washing the dishes. Imelda would scold Hugo if he refuses to wash the dishes. (Why Women Wash the Dishes, Filomena Collendrino)

Internal Conflict or External Conflict

Miss Yeyeng was an overly made-up lady. People were saying, her parents were born in one corner of Pampanga in the smallest town there. Because of this, Miss Yeyeng who was Filipina from head to foot even to the ends of her hair, was Capampangan, too. (This Miss Phathuphats, Juan Crisostomo Soto)

Internal Conflict or External Conflict

Now, taking out that mat to spread had become a kind of ritual. The process had become associated with illness in the family. Illness, even serious illness had not been infrequent. There had been deaths. (The Mats, Francisco Arcellana)