Name: Jerome G.

Orejuela
Year&Section: BSE-4English
Professor: Douglas Angel A. Aragon
Subject: Literary Criticism
Date: September 2019

1. What is your initial emotional response to the work? How did you fell upon first reading
it?
- I caught myself having a second thought as to what I should feel, for, the plot was
unexpected. Thus, I was quite surprised upon reading the entire story.

2. Did you find yourself responding to it or reacting differently at any point? If so, why? If
not, why not?
- I found myself responding in every detail of the text because the story required a
follow up as it provided an unpredictable story line.

3. At what places in the text did you have to make inferences, fill in gaps, make interpretive
decisions? Or what bases did you make these inferential guesses?
- There were few situations that I had to make inferences because there were
several bases presented in the text that have supported the situation which helped me do
a concrete inferential decision.

4. How do you response to the characters, the speaker, or the narrator? How do you feel
about them? Why?
- The characters gave me a strong portrayal that led me to a conclusion as to
whose side I should consider. I felt great empathy with Amo, he wouldn't pursue his lame
action if only the situation has permitted him to have his desires towards his partner. I felt
sad with Virning, she was so naive and vulnerable however time was so cruel with her
because she served as the spring board of his Amo's desires toward his girlfriend.

5. What places in the text caused you to do the most serious thinking? How did you put
the pieces, section, part of the work together to make sense of it?
- It was when I afforded to have a conclusion that Amo has pursued his faulty
action. There were present bases that helped me to do inferential decision: when the
narrator has started to provide information such, Amo begun to pulled off nanny, and he
didn't merit her request. By that I was certain, indeed, Amo did that.

6. If you have read a work more than once, how has your second and subsequent reading
differed from the earlier ones? How do you account for those differences, or for that there
are no differences in either your thoughts or your feelings about the work?
- There were instances where I couldn't afford to generate a decision: absence of
mind, time, and word choice, which affect my first reading, so, I took those into
consideration in my second reading to ensure that I understand the text the second time
around.