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The Flowers of May by Francisco Arcellana
The Flowers of May by Francisco Arcellana
Francisco Arcellana
t is May again. It is still generally sultry but it has begun to rain in
the afternoons and the evenings are clear, the skies are of the utmost
blue; new grass is breaking from the earth everywhere.
It is specially pleasant in the afternoons after the rain. The air is
clear and fragrant, the sky has a new washed look, and everything looks
clean and newborn.
Maytime makes me think of rain and flowers. It makes me think of
my father and my mother, my brothers and my sisters, the living and the
dead. It makes me think of churches and how it is inside churches on
May afternoons.
Maytime is running in the rain and gathering sampaguita buds. It
is Father standing by the window, watching the rain, his grief for the
dead Victoria deep and unspoken; and it is Mother too standing beside
Father, trying to share and understand that grief. It is Manuela and Juaning
and the dead Victoria and Peping and Narciso and Clara and Ting and
Lourdes and Paz and Gloria and Monserrat and Toni and even the dead
Josefina and the dead Concepcion whom I did not know. It is the church
in Tondo and the chapel in Gagalangin and the churches in the Walled
City and the churches in Ermita and Malate and San Andres and Baguio
and all the places that I have ever been.
This is how it is inside churches in the afternoons in May: there are
girls all dressed in white. They wear blue girdles. They stand or sit in
chairs arranged in two rows beneath the church dome in front of the
altar. The smallest are in front and the tallest bring up the rear. They
have reed trays filled with flowers: sampaguitas, camias, lilies, plenty of
lilies; all the flowers of May. They pray and sing. A woman in white
wearing a blue girdle claps her hands and the girls sit down. She claps
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her hands and the girls rise. The girls sing and then they dip their hands Download 80 likes | 431 Views Guy de Maupassant. Born: August 5, 1850 Died: July 6, 1893 Genre: Naturalism & Realism Popular French writer in the 19 th century Considered one of the fathers of the short story Protégé of Flaubert. Novels. Une vie (1883) Bel- Ami (1885) Mont- Oriol (1887) An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentationDownload Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author.Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link.While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server.During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher. Guy de Maupassant Born: August 5, 1850 • Died: July 6, 1893 • Genre: Naturalism & Realism • Popular French writer in the 19th century • Considered one of the fathers of the short story • Protégé of Flaubert Novels • Une vie (1883) • Bel- Ami (1885) • Mont-Oriol (1887) • Pierre et Jean(1888) • Fort comme la mort (1889) • Notre Cœur (1890) Short Stories • Boule de Suif (1880) • Contes de la bécasse (1883) • Yvette (1884) • Toine (1885) • La Pure • La Petite Roque (1886) • Le Horla (1887) • Le Rosier de Madame Husson (1888) • La Main gauche (1889) • L'Inutile Beauté (1890) Fun Facts • As a young man, de Maupassant met Flaubert, author of the classic Madame Bovary. • Early in his career, as de Maupassant began developing his own novels and short stories, he worked as a journalist for several prominent newspapers. • Far from lighthearted, many of his short stories are detective or mystery tales that explore psychoses and psychological .
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