Family Issues In The Story Of The Mats

First the filipinos have strong family ties and second the mats have bonded that tie till death as in the.

Family issues in the story of the mats. The mats written by francisco arcellana is a short story depicting a very typical filipino value a deep sense of close family ties and bonding. The story opened up to the homecoming of mr. The closeness of family has always been a major filipino value respect for the elders and parents the stability of parents marriage equality of siblings so on and so forth. The theme of the mats covers family and filipino values.

And based on our discussions and group meetings the interpretation we all agreed to make is the reader based interpretation. Evidently he would bring home his family some mats from this mat weaver. He wrote a letter to his family about how picturesque mariveles was. The mats is a short story that was written by philippine author francisco arcellana.

Arcellano was accurate when he wrote about the mats with a two prong points conveyed. The mats dissects these when it paints a picture of the relationships of the various members of the family. I wrote this alone even though it was a group thing and i wrote in a third person style where in our teacher could say that indeed it was written by the group not just by one person. It was more of a summary and some side comments from time to time.

He had special. Prior to going home he had sent a letter to his family that he has a surprise for everyone. The story entitled the mats was written by francisco arcellana one of the admirable literary filipino artists. I like the feel of mats antonio the third child said.

I actually wrote an essay for this. I like the smell of new mats oh but these mats are different interposed susanna the fifth child. The letter was read aloud during the noon meal. Saa johanne jules the homecomingthe mats written by francisco arcellana is a short story about a man depicted as a very loving and thoughtful father husband who still seemed tobe not able to move on from the unfortunate departure of his three children in this particular story the depiction of the family is about a typical big.

Talk about the mats flared up again like wildfire. The story assigned to our group is the mats. They have our names woven into them and in our ascribed colors too. Furthermore he jubilantly added that he met a marvelous mat weaver.

The story talks about a typical filipino family culture that portrays the close family relationship respect for the elders and remembering the family members who passed away.