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Ester Vallado Daroy Prepared by: Maria Camille D. Santos G1A BSN An Analysis
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Ester Vallado Daroy

Prepared by:

Maria Camille D. Santos

G1A

BSN

An Analysis

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Things to be discussed:

• About E. Vallado Daroy• Her works• Analysis on 3 works

• Nobody Gathers Seashells and Gun Shells Anymore• Manay: A Little Girl Lost• Corregidor Island Revisited: Erstwhile Hometown Before

It was Wiped Off the Map

• Analysis on the author

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Ester Vallado DaRoy

•Born on year 1928 at island of Corregidor.

•She spent her formative years living in a Filipino-American community.

•Started writing short stories, essays and feature articles in 1955 for metropolitan magazines.

•Studied at University of the Philippines, PWU and the Ateneo de Manila University.

•Formerly worked at the Press and Publications Office of the PWU Graduate School.

•Taught at the Literature Department of De La Salle University Manila.

•Was on the faculty of De La Salle University, which awarded her a Writers Fellowship grant.

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Some Works:•Bidasari(1980)

A rendition of a Maranao legend she discovered while on a research grant at the University of the Philippines

•Nobody Gathers Seashells and Gun Shells Anymore(1981)This books characters and settings are based on the historical

island of Corregidor.•The Drumbeater and Other Stories(1982)•Genesis of the Poison Tree(1992)Revolves around seprate but related stories of four women

who have been friends since high school.•The Hazards of Memory(1992)A saga of the triumphs and tribulations of a Pinoy exile in the

US.•Ekklesiastika and Other Stories(1995)•House of Jacob(2000)It explores the peasant-landlord relationship in Central Luzon.

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Analysis on some works:

•Nobody Gathers Seashells and Gun Shells Anymore•The island town in the book is Corregidor, the island on which DaRoy was born.•Racism on Americans was presented but remained as part of the setting.

•Manay: A Little Girl Lost•About two sisters who have not met for almost ten years only to find out by the younger one that her sister have Alzheimer’s Disease.•Unique writing style.•Very different from other writers.•Very specific on descriptions.•Gives a first impression that the story is about ghosts.•Corregidor Island Revisited: Erstwhile Hometown Before It was Wiped Off the Map•An essay about how the author had lived before they(she and her family) were told to evacuate Corregidor in the year 1941 because of the ongoing WWII.•Reading it made me visualize how their barrio was.•The lucid descriptions are enjoyable.•It was educational. It have stated some happening in the WWII.

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Analysis on the author:

•Genre differs from article to article.•Has a very unique writing style.•Gives very vivid description of a subject.•Sometimes writes extremely confusing articles.•As from what I’ve read she loved her country and the people in it.•She is a traveller.•Very fond of her homeland.

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