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1. Banana Heart Summer By: Merlinda Bobis Presented by: Divine Mujar Lay Gene Murillo Monique Noga

2. Merlinda Carullo Bobis was born on November 25, 1959. A contemporary Filipina-Australian writer and performer. Born in Albay , Merlinda has written and published in English, Filipino, and Bikol , integrating Philippine and Australian cultures and experiences with a wider global vision. A multi-awarded author, she has four novels, six poetry books, a collection of short stories, and nine dramatic works performed internationally. Background of the Author

3. She attended Bicol University High School then completed her BA at Aquinas University of Legazpi and her Master of Arts in Literature at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. She taught English and Literature for 10 years in the Philippines then did a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong, where she went on to lecture in creative writing for 21 years. She is currently Honorary Senior Lecturer at The Australian National University.

4. Background of the Text Merlinda Bobis ’ first novel, published in 2004. a lyrical narrative of a girl growing up in the Philippines during an eventful summer for her and the people living on her street. Banana Heart Summer is packed with signs and metaphors that never fail to arouse the senses. The novel was shortlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, nominated and received the Philippine Golden Book Award. It was published in Australia (Murdoch Books), the US (Bantam, Random), and the Philippines (Anvil), where it was well reviewed.

5. Times and Milieu It is the hottest summer of the 1960s, in her small town reeling with the songs of Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline, and The Beatles. Banana Heart Summer recalls a summer in the childhood of Nenita on Remedios Street, in a small Philippines village with a Catholic church at one end and an active volcano at the other. These two powerful presences compete for Nenita’s , and the villagers’ attention as they struggle constantly for love, for acceptance and for nourishment – body and soul. “A lot of the issues in the book are the same as those of the Philippines”, says Bobis . “I wanted to write the divide between those who love to love and eat and those who long to love and eat. And I wanted the book to evoke, for anyone from any picture, from any culture or any places, tender things: the love of the mother, the hunger for that love, the hunger for the food”, Bobis said.

6. SUMMARY

7. ANALYSIS

8. "For those who love to love and eat For those who long to love and eat"

9. DIVISION OF BANANA HEART SUMMER NOVEL: The Heart of the Matter The Spleen of the Matter Becoming a Heart The novel traces Nenita’s coming of age in 50 chapters, each discourse on a local cuisine.

10. An excerpt of the first 10 chapters: Chapter 1 : "For those who love to love and eat For those who long to love and eat" Chapter 2 : Turon : the melody Chapter 3: Shredded heart in coconut milk Chapter 4 : Tomato lemon carp with hibiscus Chapter 5: Lengua para Diablo (The devil ate my words) Chapter 6: Floating faith ( palitaw ) Chapter 7: Seaweed salad and the Calcium Man (with pilinut husk on the side) Chapter 8: Halo-halo: mix mix Chapter 9: Not quite mixed (sugar and salt) Chapter 10: Clear clam soup

11. STRUCTURE AND STYLE Structure refers to the presentation of the story. It is the manner by which the author presents the chronology of events. Style , according to Abrams (1999: 303) “is the manner of linguistic expression in prose or verse- as how speakers or writers say whatever it is that they say.”

12. STRUCTURE AND STYLE - to hold her tightly at night, whispering over and over again, I love you Maring , I love you. Then a baby always arrived from the armpit (p.71) - which clung to the waist of our father who clung to our mother and whispered, I love you, I love you, while she kept her face turned away, breathing precious air from the vent (p.73-74) - This was a story that he would tell me years later in his weary letters, which always asked whether I could send the family’s a little bit of help (p. 202)

13. STRUCTURE AND STYLE - Two guavas, two guavas, she said swallowing a fresh burst of giggles. I looked up. My cheeks were on fire. Was it a fruit of a vegetable? Up there, Manolito Chong’s shorts were too shorts indeed. (p. 122) - But how can I save that twelve-year-old from these arguments? Of course I love my own? Even today, it takes great effort to believe myself (p.131). I could climb any tree at my time (p. 132). - That summer I was twelve, lihi made sense. Mother vented her spleen on me because she was pregnant, and she couldn’t help it. Today, twenty years later, and so far away from home, I understand and I forgive (p. 103).

14. LANGUAGE The novel is written with the use of English language.

15. TONE AND MOOD “SENSOUS” “Banana Heart Summer is a sensous , poignant, and quirky feast. Smoky coconut chicken in green papayas, sticky rice with sweet anise, or spicy sorrowful peccadillos whet challenge and palate and the heart”,

16. SYMBOLISMS Banana Heart Heart Summer Food recipes Lengua para diablo Volcano and Church

17. Themes The nourishment of body and soul Child Labor and Child Abuse Poverty