“New Yorker in Tondo”

Summary of the Story:

Characters:

1. Kikay

2. Aling Atang

3. Tony

4. Totoy

5. Nena

The story is about a girl named Kikay who goes to New York and fell in love
with it. She acquires all the New Yorkish things, the style, the looks, the language
and the manners. Kikay returned a different person. These all things are very
obvious when she arrives in the Philippines specifically in Tondo she don’t even
want to call her “Kikay” but instead “Francesca”. Aling atang, the mother of Kikay,
has been away by her daughters way of living. She tries to converse with
everybody in broken English. Kikay convince her mother Aling Atang to change
into a high-society matrona and insists everyone to call her mom, “Mrs.
Mendoza”.

Tony, childhood sweetheart of Kikay, decides to visit and catch things up with her
friend. He is a simple guy who got secretly engaged with their other childhood
friend name, Nena. Nena is a tomboyish type of girl. On her visit in Kikay’s house,
she find her friend different and weird. Totoy, the “canto boy” is their other friend
who is funny and has a secret love for Nena which has only been revealded when
two females had a clash.

She gets irritated and imitates Kikay’s ways. As Kikay woke up, she
straightaway amuse her friends. But all of a sudden the “Kikay” they knew was
utterly change. Upon conversation, she kept comparing things and all those stuffs
in New York and in Tondo.
 One right moment, Kikay and Tony talked. And he opened the matter of
engagement before she leaved. But this rude Kikay don’t pay attention. She
apprised him that being engaged to him is just a childish act. To make sense, she
paradoxically deteriorate Tony making him realize an “ordinary Tondo Boy will
marry a New Yorker Girl.” Tony was very aggravate to Kikay and expressed his
resentment that New York didn’t bear her any good. As she deeply realize what
Tony told her, she now effectuated. She asked Tony for forgiveness and
promised that she will be the girl he used to know, “Kikay the original” Regretfully,
she told her that the girl he was conversing was dead and Kikay is back. And
because of Tony’s intense love for her, he forgave her and hug each other.

Author’s Bias

There is no bias in the story.

Critique of The Story

New Yorker in Tondo is a very good play. A lot of people, who goes abroad, changes
their ways and forgets who they really are. This play is accurately depicts the average
Filipino’s fake love for the country completely being lost when exposed to a foreign
country’s culture. The short play conveniently talks about the slowly deteriorating
quality of Filipino patriotism.
 “The Little Prince”

Summary of the Story:

Characters:

1. The Little Prince

The story begins when the narrator depicts his childhood, when he drew many
creative pictures and showed them to adults but was disheartened by their crude
comments. He says he then gave up his potential career of an artist and putting his
creativity to use, and instead became a pilot, because it was what the adults believed
was sensible. One day, his plane crashes and lands in the middle of the Sahara
Desert. There he meets the little prince, who instructs him to draw a sheep. Learning
pieces about the strange prince through their conversations, the narrator pilot finds his
little friend has come from an asteroid, B-612. The little prince took great care of his
asteroid, preventing baobabs - destructive plants - and other unwanted things from
destroying his home. One day, arose appears on his asteroid, and as he cares for it
most deeply, thinking she is the most wonderful, special creature ever - he is
depressed to assume that she does not love him back. The little prince then leaves
his asteroid and rose.

As he lands on many asteroids, each one is occupied by a different adult. First,

he meets the king, a man attempting to rule over the universe and the stars. The
monarch, however, does not realize the will of his presumed subjects, who do not
even know they are being 'ruled' over because of natural instincts. He covers up his
lack of understanding for these things by saying, "'Accepted authority rests first of all
on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they
would rise up in revolution. I have the right to require obedience because my orders
are reasonable.'" As he continues his journey, he meets more and more seemingly
pathetic people - a conceited man who believes the little prince is only an admirer; a
tippler who is attempting to drink his problems away; a businessman too busy to stop
his work for anything; a lamplighter who does nothing but light his lamp, day and night;
and a geographer who cannot complete his work because there is no explorer.

Next, the little prince goes to earth, where he meets a snake, who is very much
pleased in the prince's company because of his innocence and honesty in all matters,
and says his bite can send them back to their homes (where they truly belong). He
then finds a flower; an echo, of which he believes is mocking him; many roses (which
depress him, because the rose on his planet had told him she was the only one of
her kind in the universe); and a fox, whom he befriends and attempts to tame. He also
meets some humans, who seem highly peculiar to him - a railways witch man who is
unsatisfied, and knows people are unsatisfied, except for children, who are the only
ones that know what they are looking for; and a merchant, who sells pills that, will
quench thirst and save valuable time. This is the end of the little prince's told story,
the part where he end sup in the desert with the narrator pilot. They finally find a well
to quench their thirst, and share an understanding moment when they both know that
people no longer see what is most important in life but lead mechanical,empty lives.
However, the little prince misses his homeland dreadfully, and finds the snake to bite
him and send him back to his asteroid. Before he leaves, he gives the narrator a gift of
"laughing stars," something no one else in the universe has. The narrator, with his
new found friend and outlook on life, then proceeds to examine the lovely and sad
landscape of the desert and the lone star of the little prince, shining in the night sky.

Author’s Bias
There is no bias in the story.

Critique of the Story

The Little Prince novel is heartbreaking, beautiful and irresistible. The writer starts the
story with an experience he had in his childhood when he drew a snake emperor and
he was very proud of that drawing. The problem was that all grownups only saw a hat
on the drawing and not the emperor. The story, while very strange, has very clear
objectives in that teaches us about the importance of matters. The essence of the
story is also articulated in the lines the fox utters, “one sees clearly only with a heart.
What is essential is invisible to the eye. The Little Prince represents the purity and
outlook on life that we should all desire to retain, to prevent ouselves from being to
consumed in adult matters and enjoying life.

Perpetual Help College of Pangasinan

Malasiqui, Pangasinan
A.Y. 2019-2020
CRITIQUE AND SUMMARY OF
“THE NEW YORKER IN
TONDO”
AND
“THE LITTLE PRINCE”

Submitted to:
Ms. Rizza Serafin

Submitted by:
Amira P. Palatino