D. Study the following excerpts from the various literary texts that you have encountered in your English 7. Compare and contrast your opinions with the opinions in the texts.

Excerpt

1. Dodong's opinion about love and marriage

"Must you marry, Dodong?" Dodong resented his

father's questions: his father himself had married. Dodong made a quick impassioned easy in his mind about selfishness, but later he got confused. "You are very young, Dodong."

Tm... seventeen." 1...I want to marry... Teang's good girl," -Footnote to Youth by Jose Garcia Villa (retrieved from

That's very young to get married at."

English 7 Leamer's Manual) 2. The Filipino is like the bamboo tree. He knows that he is not strong enough, to withstand the onslaught of superior forces. And so he yields. He bends his head

gracefully with many loud protestations."

-Pliant like a Bamboo by I.V. Mallari 3. The Filipino may denationalize himself but not his stomach. He may travel over seven seas and five continents and the two hemispheres and lose the savor of home and forget his identity and believe himself a citizen of the world. But he remains-the gastronomically, at least-always a Filipino. For, if in no other way, the Filipino loves his country with his stomach."

-Where's the Patis? by Carmen Guererro Nakpil 4. The rich man's claim that he and his family got sick because of their poor neighbor.

"Do you claim that we stole the spirit of your wealth and became a laughing family while yours became morose and sad?' father said. 'Yes.'​