Ang Kalupi ni Benjamin P. Pascual

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Ang Kalupi

Ni Benjamin P. Pascual

I.               May akda

Si Benjamin P. Pascual ay ipinanganak sa Laoag, Ilocos Norte Siya’y isang kuwentista at nobelista. Marami na siyang naisulat na maikling kuwento sa wikang Ilokano at nakasulat na rin ng dalawang nobela sa wikang ito. Naisalin niya sa wikang Ilokano ang Rubaiyat ni Omar Khayam. Magkasama sila ni Jose Brgado na nag-edit ng Pamulinawen, isang antolohiya ng mga tula ng 36 na makatang Ilokano. Siya ang Tagapayong Legal ng GUMIL, Metro Manila.

II.             Buod

Nagsimula ang istorya sa isang umaga habang si aling Marta ay papuntang palengke para mamili ng uulamin ng kanyang mag anak para tanhalian. Espesyal ang araw na iyon kaya kailangan niyang mag handa ng spesyal sapagkat ga-gradweyt na ang kangyang anak sa mataas na paaralan. Para sa kanya, malaking bagay na para sa isang mahirap na magulang ang makapagpatapos ng anak sa high school. Sinimulan na niyang baybayin ang daan patungong palengke. Nang marating na niya ito, kitang kita mula sa labas ng palengke ang di magkamayaw na tindero’t tinder na halos pasigaw ng bibinta ang kanilang binibinta at ang mga mamimimili ay walang humpay sa pagtawad. Linggo ny umaga iyon kaya maraming tao at siksikan, sa kanyang daan papasok, nabangga siya ng isang gusgusing bata, marumi at payat na may dalang tigbebenteng bangus. Sa wari niya ang batang iyong ay mahirap. Humingi ng paumanhin ang bata sa nangyari ngunit binulywawan niya ito saka nagpatuloy sa paglakad. Papunta na siya sa tindahan ni aling Gondang kung saan madalas siyan bumili. Ng akmang babayad na siya at dumukot sa kanyang bulsa, doon niya napagtantong ang kanyang kalupi ay nawawala, ang ngiting naipinta sa kanyang manipis na labi ay biglang nawala, pagkalaoy parang kidlat niyang naalala ang batang bumangga sa kanya nung siya ay papasok pa lamang sa palengke, walang pasabi siyang umalis sa tindahan ni aling Gondang at hinanap ang gusgusing  bata na bumangga sa kanya, hinanap niya kung saan-saan at nakita ang bata sa gawing dulo ng prusisyon na di kalayuan sa natatanaw niyang karatig na outpost. Pagkakit’y agad niya itong binatak at hinawakan sa leeg upang paaminin sa pagdukot ng kanyang pitaka ngunit hindi umamin ang bata na si Andres Reyes, sa halip nagsalita lang ito ng mahina at sinabing hindi niya kinuha ang kalupi, nanggagalaiti sag alit si aling Marta, napapansin narin sila ng mga tao. Maya-maya pa’y dumating ang isang pulis at sinubukang ayusin ang sitwasyon ngunit si aling Marta ay inip na at galit at sinabing dalhin na ang bata sa outpust. Pagdating nila sa outpost umalis muna ang pulis para kumuha nga kahalili, samantalang ang batang gusgusin ay nilalaro ang sa kanyang daliri ang hawak na tig bebenteng bangus, pagkalao’y naalala ni aling Mart ang kanang anak na gagradweyt at ang kanyang asawa na inip ng naghihintay sa kanya, bunga ng galit inusig niyang ulit ang bata at pilit na pinapaamin kung saan dinala ang kanyang kalupi. Ang bata ay umiiyak na sa sakit at pagkuay kinagat niya ang daliri ni Aling Marta, ayaw man niyang tumakbo ngunit siya’y natatakot na kay aAling Marta dagli siyang tumakbo palayo sa outpost kung saan naroon si Aling Marta, hinahabol siya kasama nung pulis na kaninay nag interbyu sa kanya. Wala ng ibang marinig si Andres kundi ang malakas na tilian ng mga tao at isang malaks na busina ng sasakyan. Biglang nagdilim ang kanyang paningin at sa muling pagdilat ni Andres nakita niya ang kanyang katawang lupaypay na naliligo sa sariling dugo. Samantalang si Aling Marta ay tila tinakasan ng kulay, pinagpapawisan ng malamig at kumakatog ang tuhod. Maraming tao na ang nakapaligid sa kanila at minabuti niyang kinausap ang pulis at nagpaalam na siya’y aalis na. samu’t sari ang tumayakbo sa isipan ni Aling Marta at naisip niyang umutang muna ng pang ulam kina Aling Gondang ng sag anon, hindi siya mapapgalitan ng kanyang mister at sasabihin na lamang nito na nawala ang kanyang kalupi pagkatapos ng kumain. Malayo pa lamang siya sa kanilang bahay ay natanaw na niya ang kanyang anak na nakadungaw sa bintana nakangiti sa kanya at sinalubong siya, pagkalapit na niy, iglang kumunot ang noon g kanyang anak at nagtanong kung saan siya kumuha ng perang pambili sa kanyang dala, utal-utal na sabi naman ni Aling Marta na sa kanyang kalupi, sumungaw ang payat na mukha ng kanyang asawa at sinabing.. “Ngunit, Marta, ang pitaka mo e Naiwan mo! Kaninang bago ka umalis ay kinuha ko iyon sa bulsa ng iyong bestidong nakasabit at kumuha ako ng pambili ng tabako, pero nakalimutan kong isauli. Saan ka ba kumuha ng ipinamili mo niyan?”

Biglang-bigla, parang kidlat na sumagi sa kanyang isip ang mga nangyari sa palengke at ang gusgusing bata na bago namatay ay pilit na sinasabing kahit kapkapan pa siya ng kapkapan, walang makukuha sa kanya. Saglit siyang natigilan at pinangangapusan ng hininga, sa wari niya’y umiikot ang buong paligid. Tanging narinig na lamang niya ang yapag ng kanyang asawa’t anak patungo sa kanya na tinatanong, “Bakit kaya” “Bakit kaya”

Pamagat

“Ang Kalupi”

a.   Tagpuan

Sa “Palengke” kung saan nabundol si Aling Marta ng isang nagmamadaling gusgusing bata na may hawak na tig-bebentang bangus.

b.   Tauhan

Aling Marta                       -  sumisimbolo sa isang ina na may matayog na pangarap sa kanyang buhay, isang ambisyosa at mapanghusgang maybahay.

Gagradweyt na babae      - anak ni aling marta na magtatapos ng pag-aaral sa high school

Andres Reyes                    - ang gusgusing bata na nakabundol kay Aling Marta

Aling Gondang                  - isa sa mga tindera sa palengke na madalas binibilhan ni Aling Marta

Pulis                                   - ang umaksyon sa gulong kinasasankutan ni Aling Marta at ng bata.

IV. Epekto sa mambabasa

            Magkakaroon ng masidhing damdamin at mamumulat sa realidad n gating lipunan. Bawat tauhan ng kwento ay sumisimbolo sa bawat uri ng tao ang meron tayo sa ating komunidad.

V. Konklusyon

            a. Aral

            Hindi magandang ugali ang manghusga sa kapwa lalo pa’t ang basehan lamang n gating panghuhusga ay ang kanyang pisikal na kaanyuan. Hindi lahat ng gusgusin at mukhang mahirap ay mandurugas o masamang tao. Hindi rin makakabuti sa tin kung hindi nayin matanggap an gating sarili, an gating estado sa buhay. Hindi naman masama ang mangarap at maghangad ng masaganang buhay huwag lamang natin tularan ang pamamamaraan ni Aling Marta.

            b. Puna

            nakakapukaw damdamin ang kwentong ito, dapat lamang na mabasa ito ng lahat ang nais  ko lamang ay mabigyan ng katarungan ang pagkawalang hustisya sa mga bata o taong katulad ni Andres, bagaman gusgusin hinuhusgahan na agad na masama ang loob. Nabigyan pa sana ng pagkakataon si Andres na ipagtanggol ang kanyang sarili at mapatunayan na siya’y inosente.

kaleidoscope

why so things are hard for me to get?

did i do something wrong to deprive my happiness? why cant just live and enjoy my life? why do my dictionary doesn't have such words as "lucky" and "happiness"

why do we need to celebrate valentine's day? it is fr. Valentine's day not ours. bakit tayo nakiki celebrate? :/

Mobile Phone Educator

How could it be a mere cell phone can be our instructor and used it as one of the resources in gaining knowledge with one tap and just putting it in pocket to increase cognitive development in home and whole wide world.

“I’d rather choose losing my boyfriend than living without phone.”

-a Filipina student

Innovative teaching through technology in a world today makes difference from the teaching we had yesterday.

Mobile phone, what is mobile phone? Is it really possible to have an android teacher? Yes, definitely, perfectly, absolutely YES. But how could it be? We’ll find it later let us define first what mobile phone is.

Some nationalities often say cell phone, and some says mobile phone, now the question is what are the differences and similarities between the two? – Nothing because they are just the same, different names but with the same meaning, the same things that has a powerful structure that only computers could understand, a thing that has an own language and own ways of interpreting human language to computer language, uses codes that could hardly understand by man. I can define mobile phone as super hero; it can do anything, can create everything, can be a friend or could be an enemy depending on how we design it.

The Users

“Digital Natives” and “Digital Immigrants”, digital natives are those millennial, born in 21^st century with high technologies.

Digital immigrants are those people in the time of “bitay max”, could hardly adapt to the vast changes in technology. BUT! There are millennial who have not yet embrace the fast raging changes in technologies, they are just millennial by age and there are also some immigrants that are digitally native by heart. In our world today, it is very hard to separate human in mobile phones. As I have heard in a group of students, one of them says, “I’d rather choose losing my boyfriend than living without phone” a very heart breaking statement by a college student. I am just wondering how her boyfriend would feel hearing what she said. It might be like a knife stabbing his heart. Well so much for that let’s continue.

If most of the learners used mobile phone, why not integrate technology in educating students? Isolating phone in school is not the solution to hasten the learning of the students. If they want phone why not give them? It is the educator’s advantage when integrating mobile phones in learning. For some reason, learning doesn’t always take place in the four-corner of the classroom. The world gives us so many things to do and to learn.

 And one of the main contributors of a child’s cognitive development is the technology, a technology which includes mobile phone.

 It is very fascinating to know that more than half billion in this world has powerful tool in their pockets. Mobile phones make miles of distance near. My point is that mobile phones are not just for fun, there is a lot of learning we could get from our phone.

According to Marc Prensky an american writer and speaker in educatio in his blog What Can You Learn From A Cell Phone?-Almost Anything! “There are many different kinds of learning and many processes that we use to learn, but among these frequent, time-tested, and effective of these are listening, observing, imitating, questioning, reflecting, trying, estimating, predicting, “what-if” -ing and practicing. All of these learning processes can be done through our cell phones. In addition, the phones compliment short-burst, casual, multi-tasking style of today’s “Digital Native” learners”.

Mobile Applications

Mobile nowadays does a very big role in our lives, it makes our life easy and comfortable, teaches us to the things that we do not know And as a matter of fact, for the digital natives it is very impossible to walk without handling cell phone, without it you’re completely incomplete. One student in Japan says that “When you lose your mobile, you lose part of your brain” with just this statement we could possibly say that mobile phone has imprinted something in our brain by that losing our phone we particularly lose some part of our brain.  Truly mobile phone has a big help in our life, for the students, workers, employees, teachers, and all the other people needs mobile phone. If before we say no man is an island, maybe by now we could say there is a man in an island with a mobile phone. Funny but it touches reality, our phone is not just a pocket buddy it teaches us a lot by the help of mobile applications which fits to our needs, depending on our profession and responsibilities if and only if we design it right, we use it right. The control is in our hand.

But how a mere mobile phone can be our teacher?

Through apps! In our world today, we are just one click away. You just need to specify what you want to learn, search, download, install and boom! For an instant you have your own mobile teacher. Mobile teacher in a sense that in some instances when you are reviewing, doing self-assessment and no teacher is available you have you phone, you second option teacher, but is not meant to replace teachers it is made for the students, for the learners to learn even without in the classroom. Mobile learning or m-learning is also on its way to educate learners in their most convenient time, anywhere in the world. M-learning may contain many apps that will help us boost our knowledge specifically without hesitating others. Using mobile phones to learn does not take the merits oh being a good teacher. it is addressing the different needs of a student to learn, I wonder how some of the teachers strictly prohibited the use  of mobile phones in class well in reality the learners has its  own buddy to learn by himself. Mobile phones can teach us many things, cooking, driving, solving mathematical problems, dancing, and surfing, computing, and interacting in our most convenient time, anywhere around the globe. If you want to learn something just one tap away, it’s about making connections to your prior knowledge up to the present.

by Irene Mae Evangelista Josol