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1. THE DOG EATERS
By:
Dr. Leonicio P. Deriada
-The Author-
• Award-winning fictionist
• Playwright and poet
• Received his Ph.D. in English from Suliman State University
in Dumaguete City in 1981.
• Known for reviving writing in kinaray-a
• Visayan languages and other regional literature
WORKS
Fiction
The Road to Mawab (1984), Night Mares (1988), The week
of the Whale (1994),
DRAMA
The Dog Eaters (1986)
ANTHOLOGIES
Ani, West Visayas (1989), Patuba (1995) and Baul (1999)
which he co-authored with Isidro M. Cruz. A Palanca Hall of
Famer
AWARDS
• Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas
• Yuhum (Iloilo)
• Dr Deriada heads the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino at the U.P.
Visayas
• He is also an associate of the U.P Institute of Creative
Writing

2. SUMMARY
Victor who is a former body builder and club bouncer
married Mariana who is an undergraduate college student
because she gets pregnant. Victor and his friend (The Dog eaters
of Artiaga Street) are always drinking tuba early in the morning at
Sergio’s store with Dog dishes as their pulutan. Mariana was very
mad because it is not the life she expected to have. She takes
care of their 8 months old and now she’s bearing another one in
her womb. She can’t stand it anymore and tried to abort her child
by drinking some herbal liquid which she bought desperately
from Aling Elpidia for 40 pesos. She and Victor had a quarrel.
Victor threw the bottle of herbal liquid out the window and it was
broken. Mariana pounded Victor with her fists but the man carried
it. Suddenly, Mariana saw Victor’s Dog Ramir, she killed the Dog.
And for a long time living in Artiaga street, Mariana cried.
THE PLOT
Conflict
• The quarrel of spouse’s because of dogs, unstable jobs, and
“enough way of living”.
• Mariana wants to abort their second child.
Complications
• Poverty and lazy husband
• the quarrel between Mariana and Victor
Rising Actions
• Mariana bought a potent from Aling Elpidia to abort her child.
Climax
• Victor discovered that Mariana wanted to kill her child.

3. Falling Actions
• Victor threw the bottle of potent and they had an argument.
CHARACTERS
Setting and Point of View
Place: Artiaga Street, Davao City
Time: The 1970’s
Point of View: Third person
Style, Tone and Language
Style
• The story is written in a richly detailed manner. The
emotions, feelings and actions of character are revealed in
the story.
• The author reveals the actual condition of the characters in
every scene or circumstance.
Tone
• The tone of the voice of the story varies depending on the
feelings and emotions of the characters. Most of the time,
the tone of the story is very intense and strong. The feeling
of anger, remorse, irritation, and frustration are very visible in
the story. But there are some instances that the story shows
sarcasm and humor.
Language
• The language used in the story is light and very easily
understood by the readers.

4. • The author used a typical language used by a common
Filipino. The actions of the characters are also viewed in the
text.
Themes
• One’s anger must not be blamed to the innocents around
them for they can bring evil on one’s self.
• The right to live is entitled to everybody even a fetus or an
animal.
SYMBOLISM, ALLEGORY & IMAGE
Image
• The image or the description of the house of Mariana and
Victor shows how simple their life is.
• The image of Mariana and Victor quarrelling reveals the
major conflict in the story which is man vs. man.
Symbolism/Allegory
• Ramir, the dog may represent the relationship or life of
Mariana and Victor, noisy and very troubled.
• The bottle of liquid may represent the feelings of Mariana
towards his life. Bitter.
• The meat of dog may represent the poor while the meet of
beef and pork represent people in a high social status.
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