Moonlight

MOONLIGHT

By Guy de Maupassant

Group 5

Ben Leparto

Lyndie Amyviel Fiel

Leonard Cabugsan

Kritine Jade Tabanyag

Ivy Gay Dela Cruz

Nurjalyn Ranain

SUMMARY:

Madame Julie Roubere was expecting her elder sister, Madame Henriette Letore, who had returned from a trip to Switerland. Madame Henriette allowed her husband to return alone in Cavados. Night come on. Madame Roubere was reading in an absent minded way, raising her eyes, whenever she heard a sound. At last, she heard a ring at the door her sister appeared, without any formal greeting they embraced each other.

It was now quite dark. After a minute Madame Julie Roubere has noticed to her sister Madame Letore that she thought that mysterious and terrible calamity must have befallen her sister that’s why her sister has many questions. Then Madame Henriette answered that she has a lover.

The two women went over to a sofa in a dark corner of the room into which they sank, and the younger sister, passing her arm over the elder one’s neck, and drawing her close to her heart. They talk about the husband of Madame Julie and about what happened on the trip of Madame Henriette that her real lover that night was the moonlight.

Lyndie Amyvil M. Fiel

Summarizer 

ILLUSTRATION:

 Chose this because it is the place where the conversation happened between Madame Roubere and Madame Letore. What happened to Madame Letore when she is in Switzerland, about her lover and her feelings. It is the place also where Madame Roubere comforted Madame Letore.

Leparto, Ben R.

Illustrator

Moonlight

Are you faithful to your partner?

In any relationship it takes two persons to work out any relationship, one should be cold when the other is on fire. It takes a lot of courage and work hard for the relationship will grow and both of you will also grow as the relationship mounting.

Loyalty is a sign of faithfulness and respect to the relationship that you have, indeed, it is a sign of love to your partner. Trials in a couple is not a problem, we should not despise it therefore we should embrace it, for it is a gift. Why? Trials makes a person stronger, it gives new schema that can be use in future and makes a relationship more valuable for a couple because they work and surpass the problem together.

Questions:

1.       Describe faithfulness.

Faithfulness is being and staying loyal to your partner even with his imperfections.

2.       If you’re the sibling of Madame Heriette Letore, what would be your reaction to her revelation?

A sister will always be a sister even how bad or good your sibling has done.

In case of Madame Letore if I were her sister, I won’t tolerate her actions but I won’t despise her, instead I will help her to overcome her problem; be a shoulder and person she can rely on.

3.       What is the charater of the husband of Madame Henriette?

He is a responsible husband in terms of financial support to his family, and trying to give a luxurious living to her partner but in terms of being a husband to his wife aside from a financial supporter he is not successfully doing his role. He is insensitive to the feelings of her wife.

4.       Describe the character of Madame Henriette Letore.

She is a loving person, a sensitive and romantic one. But she is weak whenever she rejected, she cannot bear the rejection she received from her husband and become vulnerable in it.

5.       If you are Madame Henriette Letore would you commit the same? Why?

If I were in the shoes of Madame Letore I will not do the same mistake foe I will remain faithful to my partner despite of insensitivity to my feeling, maybe there is a reason of his actions and instead of hiding my feeling I will open up to him so that he will know my thoughts and I will hear his side.  

Ivy Gay Dela Cruz

Discussion Leader

Vocabulary

Impetuously

                -Characterized by sudden and forceful energy or emotion; impulsive and passionate.

                -Having or marked by violent force: impetuous, having waves

Example: Impetuous man, quickly in his decisions.

Falsehood

                -The quality of being untrue

                -An act of deceiving or lying

Example: Falsehood of a conditional expression to determine the execution.

Unbosom

                -Admit, confess, confide, disclose, divulge, get (something) off one’s chest (informal) get (something) out of one’s system, lay bare, let out, reveal, spill one’s guts about (slang) tell, unburden.

Example: So saying, he passed to the palace of Zosimus the Patriarch, to whom he could unbosom himself with more safety.

Hermetically

                -Sealed so as to be airtight

                -Hidden or protected from the outside world

Example: So an expensive hermetically sealed coffin is required if embalming is rejected.

Glittered

                -Sparkle or brilliance

                -Show and glamour

                -Tiny pieces of shiny decorative material used for ornamentation

Example: The show glitters with famous actors.

Enervates

                -To deprive of strength or vitality; waken physically or mentally; debilitate

Example: Enervates it was the enervating heat of the afternoon, perhaps the soporific effect of the bathing session, or maybe something else entirely.

Dullness

                -Slow to think or understand; stupid

                -lacking in interest

                -Lacking in perception or ability to respond; insensitive

Example: Dogged by dullness and variable quality, they have been losing money for years.

Barrister

                (In England) a lawyer who is a member of one of the Inns of Court and who has the privilege of pleading in the higher courts.

                -Informal; any lawyer

Example: You may have employed a barrister to represent you at this stage.

Veil

                -A piece of material worn so as to fall over the head and shoulder on each side of the face, forming a part of the headdress.

Example: The bride’s dress was of white figured silk, her bridal veil was caught up with a wreath of orange blossom.

Leonard A. Cabugsan

Vocabulary Enricher

Connecting

“And his words froze me to the heart. It seems to me that when people love each other, they ought to feel more moved by love than ever, in the presence of beautiful sceneries.”

                In real life scenario, when a man/woman falls in love, both parties must do everything to show their love to each other. To maintain the passion for love, sometimes, the beautiful scenes, the dating place and the words to be uttered are very important for it gives happy memories which they’ve shared together.

Kristine Jade Tabanyag

Connector

Passage

“You see, sister, very often is not a man that we love itself. And your real lover that night was the moonlight.”

                I chose this passage because this passage tells a real thing about love, and in other way, opens the mind of Madam Letore. God made the night more enchanting than the day because such beauty was made to cradle lovers. God allowed this to happen to nurture such love, passion, such intimacy. The moonlight that signifies love is the said thing about what we love is love itself; that such beauty is hidden in the dark like no one will ever see love when no one would dare to look deeper in the heart.

Nurjalyn Ranain

Passage Picker