Critical analyses, i.e comparisons and contrasts between Nick Joaquin's "Summer Solstice" and Aida Rivera-Ford's "Love in the Cornhusks" have reaped rich material for cultural, gender, and class studies. For your fourth blog requirement, compose an essay on cultural or political issues, occurences, problems, etc. related to relationships, sex and marriage.
Use the insights you have gained from our discussions of the above-mentioned stories as take-off points or writing prompts. You may focus on one or more characters, the conflict/s of each story, the theme/s, symbolism, etc. embedded in the stories. You may do a comparison and contrast between the social conditions then and now, or you may talk about cultural differences between regions, countries, religions, etc.
Whatever you choose to do, do some research on your topic. Cite concrete situations, practices, events, etc. and support these with sources.
In summer solstice it was quite different the storyline of this story, because it deals on marriage. also the traditions that are shown in this story is quite awkward and different. the fertility tradition is quite shocking because i have never heard of this culture before, i know the main couple was catholic believer because they look educated and philippines under this time is very spanish, but the tradition that they adopted later after seeing other people do that non catholic tradition, shocked me because they changed totally in what is considered normal for western.
Also in Love in the Cornhusks the woman chose the marriage partner so that he can support her, i think this is very common in filipino society because many couples are very close then break apart then end up with an unwanted child, then it is usually the womens fault, so she will have to find someone to take care of her. But i think this is not problem of the tradition of marriage but more of the problem within the couple attitude. Maybe it is within tradition or upbringing of pilipinos that is why this story is relevant. because in korea many people believe that marriage is not just connection between boy and girl but also the connection between their families, that is why it is very hard to get married in korea, they must know if you are a good person to their son or daughter, in all aspects. Marriage in south korea is very important family business. This is one reason also, many koreans get stressed in relationships because they always need to do their best in what they are doing, like job or with family, so that they will always be ready for their girlfriends/boyfriend's family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_South_Korea - Korean marriage
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