An assessment in 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World

1. 21st
Century Literature from the Philippines and the World
Direction:Read and analyze eachstatement.Choosethe letterof youranswerandwrite itbefore eachnumber.
A 1. What is an example of literarywork?
A. Fiction B. Singing C. Dancing D. Laughing
D 2. It is a computer informationthat can be representedthroughaudio, video,and animationin additionto
traditional media.
A. Internet B. Google C. YouTube D. Multimedia
D 3. Recordedstory isan example of_____?
A. Literature B. Presentation C. Literary work D. MultimediaPresentation
B 4. Dekada 70 is a literary work written by ____?
A. Eros Atalia B. Lualhati Bautista C. Manix Abrera D. Ricky Lee
D 5. One ofthe literary piece that is writtenby Jason Paul Laxamana is ____.
A. Ilustrado B. Para Kay B C. ABNKKBSNPLAKO D. 100 Tula Para Kay Stella
C 6. The place of originof Dekada 70 is ____?
A. Africa B. America C. Philippines D. Australia
D 7. What is the importance of creative representation?
A. It makes us bored.
B. It will make us angry.
C. It will make us lonely.
D. It will make us interestedinthe story.
A 8. What are the basic componentsof multimediapresentations oftext from 21st
CenturyLiterature?
A. Interaction and dynamism
B. Learning and understanding
C. Innovation and creativity
D. Writingand reading
9-13. In your own words what can you understandabout literary work?
Ever since Iwas small,storieshave beenapartof mylife.Readingbookslike OldMacDonaldHad a Farm
and The VeryHungryCaterpillarbefore bedbecame apartof my natural order where Icouldescape into
anotherworld. To say the least,notmuch has changedand on mostnights,Ilove to read - to findthatescape
away fromreality. But,literature ismore thanthat.
Literature isthe imaginative workthatpicturesthe humanlife insociety.The authorwill writethe resultof
thisimaginationinaformof literaryworks. Literarywork isa writtenpiece of art,and a workthat is formedbya
creative imagination,includingworksof poetry,drama,fiction,andnonfiction. Literature actsasa form of
expressionforeachindividual author. Some literaryworks mirrorsocietyandallow ustobetterunderstandthe

2. worldwe live in. We are easilyconnectedtothe mindof authors throughtheirstories.Literatureisareflection
of humanityanda meansof understandingone another.Bylistening toanotherperson'svoice,we cangeta
sense of howthat personthinks.Literature,Ibelieve,iscrucial because of itspurpose,andina worldthatis
becomingincreasinglydisconnectedfromhumaninteraction, literaryworks create aconversation.
14-18. Using a chart write 5 21st
Centurywriters on the first column and their literaryworks on the second
column.
21st
Century Writer/s Literary Work/s
Bob Ong ABNKKBSNPLAko?!
Park Min-gyu Pavane for a Dead Princess
Miguel Syjuco Ilustrado
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
Lualhati Bautista Dekada 70
19-21. Think of your most favorite 21st
Century literarytext and write your literary analysisabout it.
LITERARY ANALYSIS: ‘NIGHTFALL’ BY ISAAC ASIMOV
You may imagine the earth shifting beneath your feet as you stumble out from beneath the 45-tonne bronze cone of London's
planetarium, shaky after a virtual adventure across the solar system and beyond. The National Maritime Museum, the curve of the river,
Canary Wharf, and the rest of the city stretch out beneath you as you stand on the brow of the hill in Greenwich Park, your head still full of
planets spinning on their computer-generated orbits, and the vista seems to roll inexorably east towards the curtain of night. Darkness is an
inescapable fact of life on earth, an astronomical certainty which, for all the terror it brings in childhood, gives our daily existence its rise and
fall, its ebb and flow, as night follows day follows night.
But what if it wasn't the case? What if night wasn't only dense and all-encompassing, but also unexpected and sudden? What if daylight
were so pervasive, so constant, that total darkness was unimaginable, inconceivable? What if there were no one to teach us how not to be
afraid of the dark?
In his 1941 short story "Nightfall", Isaac Asimov takes us to Lagash, a planet deep in a globular cluster surrounded by not one, not
two, not three – but six nearby stars. When Alpha sets, Beta is at zenith; when Gamma is at aphelion, Delta is nearby. The whole planet is
bathed in perpetual sunlight from its constant companions, so that the inhabitants of Saro City have never seen the stars, have never known
the total darkness of night. Until now.
"Nightfall" presents an alternate society for its own sake. It is obviously not an attempt to show what life will be like a few years from
now, so it is not tomorrow fiction. And though it contains a few satirical touches directed at commonly held contemporary assumptions—for
example, Beenay's notion that life as we know it could not exist on a planet revolving about a single sun—still it does not attempt to make us
feel in our guts that air pollution is evil or that violent hoodlums have a right to their own identities. "Nightfall" is not a work of social fiction.
The characters in "Nightfall" have no visible resemblance to us. They don't exist on Earth's past or future, and they aren't the remnants
from a destroyed human colony. At the same time, we are given no reason to imagine them as anything other than ourselves in our
imaginations. They have brows and arms. Or, at the very least, Asimov employs the terminology developed to describe humans to describe
his aliens. Perhaps this is Asimov's application of Milton's "doctrine of accommodation," in which Milton characterizes his angels—fallen and
unfallen—as being shaped like us and collecting sense data like us, even though they are not and do not. The angels are simply
accommodated to human concepts by Milton. Although Asimov's aliens may be truly strange, he has adapted them to our understanding of
ourselves so that he can discuss them.
Fundamentally, though, it doesn't make any difference. "Nightfall" is about the relationship between consciousness and its
environment. The physical apparatus in which that consciousness is embodied is irrelevant. Human-shaped or alien-shaped, the

3. consciousnesses on Lagash are what they are because they developed under six suns and a nightfall that comes once every 2,049 years.
Their mentality differs due to the fact that they live in various environments.
"Nightfall" makes such a strong impact because it persuades us that we would behave differently in those circumstances. "Nightfall"
symbolizes a cosmic concept: who we are and how we think are determined by the environment into which we are born by chance. It creates
an alternate planet and society for the sake of it. But that world isn't completely disconnected from our own. It also has lessons for us to
learn. Consciousness, regardless of the environment that shapes it, is sacred.
‘Nightfall" holds up extraordinarily well today, comparing the conflicts between intellectualism and superstition as civilization fails to
learn from its history. Indeed, the final line of the science fiction short story never fails to elicit a chill: “The long night had come again.”
References:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel)
https://archive.org/stream/Astounding_v28n01_1941-09_SLiV#page/n8/mode/2up
22-23. Is it reallynecessaryto create multimediaskillsina representationofa literarytext?
Yes,it isnecessarytocreate multimediaskillsinarepresentationof aliterarytext since itmakesstudying
literature more excitingandmeaningfulbecause itprovidesopportunitiesforusto constructand reconstruct
ideasinaudioandvisual formats.Throughmultimediaplatforms,we canapplya wide range of strategiesto
understand,interpret,andevaluatetexts.There isahuge impactof the use of multimediainstudyingliterature.
Some multimediaformatsthatwe can use are blog,mindmapping,mobile phonetexttula,slideshow
presentation,tagcloud,andvideo.We canuse themcreativelytointerpretvariousgenresof literarytexts.
Studyingliteratureismore excitingwithmultimediasupportswhere youcanactivelyandcollaborativelybuild
knowledge structuresusingtechnology.
24-25. If you are goingto create a multimediapresentation, whatliterary work will you choose and why?
The Necklace,writtenbyGuyde Maupassant in1884, isa poignanttale aboutMathilde Loisel whoisa
beautiful youngwomanmarriedtoanunimportantclerk.She dreamsof the finerthingsof lifeandisnot
contentwithhersecure,middle-classlifestyle.She isembarrassedbyherlackof wealth.
One day, she and her husbandwere invitedtoa ball.She thoughtshe hadnothingpropertowear soshe
managesto getsome moneyfromherkindhusbandto buya new dress.Then,she borrowedabeautiful
diamondnecklace fromarich friend.She thenlostthe necklace andhadtowork hard manyyearsto pay for the
loss.The price she pays fora single eveningof elegance turnsintoyearsof laboranddespair.
Thisstory isan impressive piece becauseitgivesmessageandmoral foreveryone.The moral of the storyis
to be happywithwhat youhave inlife.Life isn’taboutsocial statusorhow rich youare. Be thankful and
appreciate whatyouhave.
Thisis a story that hasstood the testof time and isas relevanttodayas whenMaupassantwrote itinthe
late nineteenthcentury.Guyde Maupassantisa fantasticauthor.In justa few shortpageshe managesto
conveyso many emotionsregardinglonging,envy,dissatisfaction,vanity,pride,boastfulness,sufferingandpain.
The story isbrief,yetsofull. Thisisthe reasonwhyI choose The Necklace byGuyde Maupassant if I were going
to create a multimediapresentation.