The Story Of The Mats

Prior to going home he had sent a letter to his family that he has a surprise for everyone.

The story of the mats. Many say that the best character in the story is mr. The story of mats by francisco arcellana is about a father who came home from working away in a distant province. As for the story of math s i have to say it really is an amazing educational tool in that it makes the subject utterly fascinating. The mats is set somewhere before world war ii.

Fet mats fat mats real name. He is a kind hearted affectionate and sensitive man who always thinks of. As the story opens mr angeles head of a large family has just returned from one of his periodic inspection tours on the families farm lands in the marivales in the province of bataan. The story depicts a typical filipino family culture.

The mats dissects these when it paints a picture of the relationships of the various members of the family. I was thinking merely of quadratic equations and my algebra ii teacher in high school who between friends was a little. The mats written by francisco arcellana is a short story depicting a very typical filipino value a deep sense of close family ties and bonding. When they brought the body to the surface it was identified by his former fiancée margaret olsdotter as fet mats israelsson who had disappeared 42 years earlier.

The story assigned to our group is the mats. But his homecoming from a trip to the south was fated to be more memorable than say of the others. The story entitled the mats was written by francisco arcellana one of the admirable literary filipino artists. For a long time i thought i was a math hater but it turns out i just didn t know math.

And based on our discussions and group meetings the interpretation we all agreed to make is the reader based interpretation. Mats israelsson died 1677 was a petrified man found in 1719. For the angeles family mr. It was in the time when people did not sleep in beds but slept on mats.

It reminded me of my beloved father who passed away a year ago from a lung cancer. The mats by francisco arcellana. The mats is a short story by francisco arcellana. The closeness of family has always been a major filipino value respect for the elders and parents the stability of parents marriage equality of siblings so on and so forth.

Homecoming from his periodic inspection trips was always an occasion for celebration. The theme of the mats covers family and filipino values. In 1719 miners in the falun copper mine found an intact dead body in a water filled long unused tunnel. The short story moved me and made me a bit depressed.