THE MOLE by: Kawabata Yasunari

            The Mole is a story written by Kawabata Yasunari, its is about Sayoko which is the main character, writing yearly letters to her husband.
      She describes her mole, which grows from her fiddling with it despite being scolded by him and her family, and how it represents her internal conflict in her marriage.
   In this story I learned that if you love someone you will accept his/her imperfections.

THE FOOD OF PARADISE by Ibn Amjed

 
                     The Food of Paradise is a story about hope and faith towards our God. Mullah is the main character in this story, he is a teacher before he was tired and got a lower salary, he decided to go to the City of Baghdad wherein near at the river, even though he was lazy, he always has a trust to Allah his God. He believes that Allah will never leave him.
  Everyday he saw a floating food in the river, it is called "balwa" . Then one day, he saw a hermit and told him about the princess who live in a palace. And because he was curious about the balwa, he decided to passed by at the princess palace and then he saw a girl throwing something in the river. Then he found out that the food was he eaten is the Princess used when she was taking a bath, because of Mullah's laziness he became irresponsible and worthless. But he believed that no matter what happen Allah is always with him.

In our lives, we can't avoid to feel that the world is so unfair but we should not question our one and only creator. Everything's happen for a reason and God has a purpose.

MAHAMAYA by Rabindranath Tagore

       
    This story written by Rabindranath Tagore is about   the Indian culture which is the widow should be cremated alive on her husband's funeral. Mahamaya the protagonist in this story was cremated alive after his marriage to a dying Brahmin, who later died, living her already a widow the next day. And it made the two apart but was again reunited, fulfilling Mahamaya's promise to Rajib. However, their being together was broken when Rajib broke his promise to Mahamaya that he will never remove the vail, then Mahamaya decided to leave immediately.
    In this story I learned that Love cannot survive if there's no trust to each other.  

THE COCK by Tao Kim Hai

                     This story written by Tao Kim His is a story about a women who came from a rich family and a man who came from a poor family and how the cock witnessed their love to each other. An old rooster played a part in their lives.This story happens in reality. Where the rich people and poor people became lovers.Those two encounters a lot of trials and struggles because of their different states in life. In this story I learned that, The worst thing that might have happened to you might lead you to the happiness that you are looking for.

HOMECOMING by Lin Huai Min

          The Homecoming story by Lin Huai Min is about the story of a boy who decided to migrate and lived in other country, just to continue his studies abroad and adopt that countries culture and tradition. He forget his origin and the place where he came from. This story is not strange for us filipinos, because some filipinos go and migrate to other country just to continue and finish their studies there and some filipinos go abroad just to find a proper and good job.  But we filipinos didn't forget our mother country, the place where we are belong and the place where we came from. But the main character in this story forget where he came from and he didn't want to remember his family background.

OH...OH...OH... by Idrus

               This story written by Idrus is a story about corruption and the unfair treating of the ticket seller and the conductor of the train for the people because in this story the ticket seller who's prioritizing people who can pay the ticket in a big amount at the end of the queue than those people who are first in line who have enough money to pay they will remain standing until all those who has a big amount are done paying. The policeman in the train station gets all the sacks of rice of the poor passengers.
             Corruption here in the Philippines do exist because of the government officials who do nothing but to steal money from the people's money.
            This story entitles Oh...Oh...Oh... because this was the expression used by the several man in the train when the train came to stop.