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Lengua para Diablo: (Excerpt From Banana Heart Summer) by Merlinda Bobis
Lengua para Diablo: (Excerpt From Banana Heart Summer) by Merlinda Bobis
DIABLO
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Lengua Para Diablo is an excerpt from the
book “Banana Heart Summer.” Banana
Heart Summer is written by Merinda Bobis.
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Banana Heart Summer is written by
Merinda Bobis. Merlinda Bobis is an
acclaimed Filipino-Australian writer and
performer who has published in three
languages. Her novels, short story and
poetry collections, and plays have received
various awards.
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Lengua Para Diablo means “The Devil Ate
My Words.” “Lengua is a Spanish word
meaning “tounge,” which in the story,
symbolizes the words eaten by the devil.
try it or eat it
agian? Why or why
not?
LENGUA PARA
DIABLO
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the
darkest corner of the house, and
stared at his hands. It took him two
days of silent staring before he told my
mother about his fate
I wondered how the devil ate my father’s
tongue. Perhaps he cooked it in mushroom
sauce, in that special
Spanish way that they do ox tongue. First, it
was scrupulously cleaned, rubbed with salt
and vinegar, blanched
in boiling water, then scraped of its white
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symbolize
?
What did the
father mean by
“The devil ate
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my words”?
What
happened to
What does this
tell us about
philippine
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society? Do
you think this
is still true
Does the little
girl
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understand
what her
father means?
How does the
girl
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misinterpret
her father's
words?
In the end,
when she is
describing the
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lengua, how do
you think she
feels? Why
Why is it
necessary to
talk about
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spaniards, when
this is a story
that takes place
in the
What does
the girl wish
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story is
trying to say?
THANK YOU
FOR
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LISTENING!