Love in the Cornhusks

LOVE IN THE CORNHUSKS By Aida Rivera Ford SettingThe toshhappensinaBarrio. ClimaxTinangdiscoversafterreadingthelove garnerfromher frontlove, Amado, that she is lock loved by him. However, by then, she is already unite to a Bagobo and has a son with him. REACTION Aida Rivera Ford, according to my research, has lived with her husband in their large farm in Davao, the place where I live as well. In connection to this, the short accounting of Love in the Cornhusks is in some partner related with her bread and butter like its barrio-setting and the characteristics ofthe Characters as well.Perhaps, the main character is a woman based on the fact that the writer of this short story is a woman too. The story is very simple, easy to understand and save realistic. It begins in a situation where the main character, Tinang, starts her day as she visits her Senora with a good vibe that shifted to a different one lately. The author do the life of Tinang centered between two men. The Bagobo , her husband, and Amado do non turn to in the story further they are characterized differently with each other(a).It appears that her husband, the Bagobo, is a simple man, whom is satisfied of existence a farmer with the 2 hectares of grime for his family. On one hand, Amado, the one she loved before her husband, is portrayed as a tractor driver, whom wears formal clothes every Saturday and a yet man who gives importance to his future as he wants to study mechanical engine room someday. I see in the story that in life, choices are devoted to us and yet what we do to do is to discern and stand in the decision we whitethorn select.Hence, marrying is not a joke and to marry the Bagobo is not just a coincidence in Tinangs life but it is her decision when she did so, even if she did not know yet the reason why Amado had suddenly gone. The last part of the story has some symbolic figures. Tinang still loves Amado even after she got married to her husband. Reading the letter is a morsel when Tinangs smell for Amado has reawakened. To cry is the first thing she does, then, she tries to recollect her first experiences with him. A snake comes inthe scene sneaking towards her foul up.As I crush it, I see that snake is the representation of such discovery and poses brat towards her kinship with her family. Why the snake is going to her baby? It is because that snake, if Tinang lets herself be interpreted by her emotion, can destroy her relationship with her Bagobo husband. Indeed, the snake is about to aggress her son for he is the symbol and the fruit of the love that she and her husband divided up together. In the end of the story, the authors symbolisms are saying that Tinang chooses to hold the consequences in the decision she made in her life.First, she stands up from her sitting countersinktelling that life essential go on then she embraced the babytelling that she has to embrace her own consequences and situatedness and especially the people who m God has prone to her next, she prayed and beg the almighty not to punish her after thinking other things outside from her married lifesaying that she realizes that her thoughts are wrong afterwards, she checks the kowtow of the baby searching for some marksshowing the possible scars in her married life after reincarnating the feelings she once had with Amado and the last one, the letter bring down unnoticed among the cornhusksaying that she leaves that momentum without knowing that her very strong feeling and longing to Amado, if is not totally gone yet, is at least move and is left among the cornhusks, which is meant to be consider as only a past of her life. REFLECTION Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. This is a famous saying I have been hearing since my early young years. After reading the story, I am affirmed that a relationship tantamount to what Tinang and Amado had is not always certain. Life is full of twisting events and tender-hearted beings have to understand that decisions done in every moment must be discerned well and its consequences should be accepted.If I were Tinang, I would surely vex myself too thinking about the other possibilities that could happen in my life if I did not marry the Bagobo. However, though it is a little identification number painful, I know that I cannot rewind anymore the time and what I have to is to accept that life is like that. We tend to experience the excruciating consequences of our precipitant or even faulty decisions in order for us to change state a better and mature person someday in making decisions once again in our life. Hence, love in the cornhusk, as it is line drawing that life has to be dealt with acceptance, I learn that at the end of the day, I must reserve a part of myself a chance of being able to move on and cope with the excruciating moments I may face in the future.