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Vicente Rivera Jr.'s WWII Story Summary

The document provides an analysis of the short story "All Over the World" by Vicente Rivera Jr. It summarizes the plot, which is about a young man named Felix who meets and befriends a young girl named Maria in Manila during World War II. However, they are separated when the war forces them to evacuate. The analysis also describes the characters of Felix and Maria and examines other elements of the story like point of view, theme, imagery, and literary devices. The document is presented in sections that each analyze a different aspect of the short story.
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Vicente Rivera Jr.'s WWII Story Summary

The document provides an analysis of the short story "All Over the World" by Vicente Rivera Jr. It summarizes the plot, which is about a young man named Felix who meets and befriends a young girl named Maria in Manila during World War II. However, they are separated when the war forces them to evacuate. The analysis also describes the characters of Felix and Maria and examines other elements of the story like point of view, theme, imagery, and literary devices. The document is presented in sections that each analyze a different aspect of the short story.
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Who’s Presenting?

Marife Camacho Thea deGuzman April Francisco Koolin Relado

N E X T T O P R E S E N TAT I O N
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VICENTE RIVERA JR.

All Over The World


A short story about World War II, where many people
lost and separated with their loved one`s. And here in the
story, there is a young man, named Felix who met a
young girl in the name of, Maria.
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Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3


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AUTHOR`S BIOGRAPHY
Vicente Rivera Jr. is a Bicolano writer who first started writing
in 1930`s. He was the editor of Evening News Magazine. He
has won several prizes in the short story, and had a novel
serialized in women`s magazine, who threatens to win the 1957
Palanca Award in short story. After writing for several years, he
died in 1999 in Houston, Texas.

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CHARACTERS
Explanation :
Felix – He is a flat character. Because he did not change his
personality, from the start and to the end of the story. He
remains the the guy who loves the quiet and beautiful evening
in the streets with buildings and walls. And he still care about
Maria through the beginning until at the end of the story, where
they got separated by the war.

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CHARACTERS
Explanation :
Maria – She is a round character. Because at first she is shy,
she did’t smile at her Felix at first. But the story goes by, Felix
discovered that she loves to explore the city. She become
friendly and talk to Felix about her life and her family, and she
become comfortable with Felix and smiled at him.

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CHARACTERS
Explanation :
Uncle Lucio – He is a static character. He remain the same
personality at the start through the end of the story. He help and
take care Maria to have a home.

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SE TTING OF THE STORY


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Apartment House

Intramuros (MANILA)

Corridor of the Apartment

Time of World War II

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PLOT OF THE STORY


Explanation :
In the story, a guy named Felix went to a movie house and went
home alone, enjoying the quiet and beautiful evening and the
quiet streets and buildings. He is a 21 years old who work on
his first job in Manila. When he went home, he saw a beautiful
little 11 years old girl named Maria. He saw Maria reading his
copy of Greek Myth.

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PLOT OF THE STORY


Explanation :
Felix tried to talk with Maria, but, Maria is to shy to response.
He lend the book to Maria for a while until Maria finish the
book. Maria live with her Uncle Lucio, a janitor. Maria’s
parents are both dead and her sister have already a new family.
Maria loves to walk and explore the city. Maria finished the
book she borrowed from Felix and returned it.

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PLOT OF THE STORY


Explanation :
Felix and Maria become friends. But, the war came. It’s WWII
that time, the should live there homes and evacuate to a safe
place to survive. So one day, Felix went to Maria’s house, but
it’s to late. They are both separate by the war and did not see
each other again.

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THE POINT O F VIEW OF THE STORY


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First-person Narrative

Felix – protagonist narrating the story

Uses I and me throughout the story

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THEME OF THE STORY


It’s about true friendship. Many people will mean nothing or
walk away in our life. But true friends will still remains in our
heart, what ever happens.

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IMAGERY IN THE
STORY “She was a delicately pretty girl with a fine, smooth. Pale olive
skin that shone richly in the yellow light. Her nose was straight,
small and finely moulded. Her lips, full and red, were fixed and
tense.” Felix praises Maria by saying that she appears a pale
olive skin because of the yellow light. Finely moulded nose and
a red lips. Through the contrasting image of light or a yellow
light, Felix portrays Maria’s beauty.

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SY MB OLIS M I N THE STORY


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THE COPY OF BOOK

THE POSTERS IN THE THEATER

MARIA`s SMILE

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S TYL E A ND TONE IN THE S TORY


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NARRATIVE STYLE

SERIOUS

FORMAL

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FIGURES OF SPEECH
Explanation :
Personification – soft cries that empty streets and sleeping
houses seem to share in the light.

Personification – When the night had grown colder

Metaphor – And in the evening when the noise of living had


died down

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FIGURES OF SPEECH
Explanation :
Oxymoron – even in the darkening light of the fading day.

Metaphor – The breeze from the sea had died down

Metaphor – I came home one night through darkened streets.

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