Region 3 author- Danton Remoto

1. THE HEART OF
SUMMER

2. BIOGRAPHY
NAME: DANTON REMOTO
BIRTHDAY: March 25, 1963
PARENTS: Francisco Sr. and Lilia Relato
OCCUPATIONS: Essayist, writer,
columnist, Field reporter, professor.

3. AWARDS In 1979, Remoto won the ASEAN prize for essay writing. In 1983, he
won the Galian sa Arte at Tula award for poetry.
 In 1986, Remoto won the PLAC award for poetry. In 1987, Remoto
was a Palanca Awards winner for essay writing. He was a three-time
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) awardee for poetry.
 He was a two-time 1989 and one-time 1990 awardee of the Stirling
District Arts Council Award for poetry and short story writing. In 1993,
Remoto became the Procyon Prize winner for poetry.
 He received the Cultural Center awards for film and video for the
screenplay of the documentary House of the Crescent Moon and for
the film The Last Parian.
 In 2004, Remoto obtained the Philippines Free Press Award for essay
writing. In 2006, he became an awardee of the National Commission
on Culture and the Arts Award for poetry translation.
 In 2007, Remoto was granted the Philippine Graphic magazine's Nick
Joaquin Award for short story writing.

4. CHARACTERS
• The boy- protagonist, the boy who likes
Rene
• Rene- the guy that the protagonist
wanted to be with
• Ludy- the protagonist’s housemaid

5. SETTING
In a subdivision of Antipolo Hills
before midnight, the people in the place
are tense for the first rain of May or Agua
de Mayo.

6. SUMMARY
A family rented a house owned by the mayor’s mistress in a
subdivision in Antipolo Hills. The house has 2 little rooms which is
enough for them. His father is an engineer and his mother is a tutor in
playing piano.
In summer, his mother left every day for her piano tutorials and
their housemaid Ludy went home to Albay, so he experienced doing
the household chores alone and studying for summer classes he’d
attend in a university, and then in the blue hour before dusk, he would
pick up a red plastic pail and walk five houses away to the street corner
to fetch water. But on his way back to fetch water again, a young man
was standing at the head of the line. The young man let him to fetch
water first. And while fetching the water he is looking surreptitiously at
the young man’s hairy legs. When the young man mumbled that his
name is Rene, he just smiled and walked away afraid of saying that he
likes Rene.

7. He enrolled at the university with two courses, Business Statistics
and Financial Accounting because his father said that that course can make
them rich but the only thing he wanted is to draw. Every day he is experiencing
the toughness of commuting to go to his school. While reading his book on the
bus when he raised his face, he saw Rene coming. He noticed that Rene was
stressed so he moved to the right side of his seat to see Rene clearly and he
wanted to sit behind him and comfort him but someone with halitosis sat
beside him.
As he was sitting on the front yard, he is imagining some features of
men. Then, while having a cup of coffee, he opened the door and heard the
oncoming rain. He noticed that the people outside were tense it is because of
Agua de Mayo or the first rains of May.
He opened his mouth and let the rain’s tongue roam inside him, while
its fingers travelled downward, on his inner arm and his chest. He knew what to
do, he would soap himself in the bathroom, rinse his skin clean, change into
fresh clothes that smell good and are crisp to touch. Then he would look for his
sheets of Oslo paper in his drawer. He would run his fingers on his sketches of
Rene but Lucy told him that Rene will join his mother who is working abroad at
states. But he is still at the boy’s heart.

8. PLOT SUMMARY
EXPOSITION
CLIMAX
RESOLUTION

9. EXPOSITION
 The family of the boy moved to Antipolo because the house rent on
Project 4 increased.
RISING ACTION
 When he was fetching the water from the fire hydrant, he saw a man.
That man allowed him to fetch water first and the boy surreptitiously
look at the boy. They introduced themselves but the boy was afraid that
if they talk too much to each other he might confess that he likes him.
CLIMAX
 On his way home, while riding on the bus, he is reading a book when
he saw Rene. Rene looked stressed and when the boy saw him, he
want to comfort Rene but a man with halitosis sat beside him.
FALLING ACTION
 While sitting and imagining features of a man, the people started to be
tensed because of the first rain of May or Agua de Mayo.
RESOLUTION
 The boy continue to live and love Rene even if they’re not with each
other.

10. CONFLICT
The boy finds it hard to love someone
especially in the same sex.

11. THEME
The story is all about the love of a
man for another man.

12. SYMBOLISM
Agua de Mayo
 this symbolizes miracle because it is
uncommon to experience rainy day/s
during summer.

13. PLOT TYPE/DEVICE
Plot type:
Classic plot
 The events are chronologically sequeced.
Plot device:
Foreshadowing
 When the boy looked surreptitiously to Rene,
it is a hint that the boy likes him until the story
ends.

14. POINT OF VIEW
First person point of view
Explanation: because the boy is narrating
his own story

15. REFERENCES
 Blogspot. (December 12, 2016). Danton
Remoto 2010. Retrieved from
http://dantonremoto2010.blogspot.com/20
08/03/heart-of-summer-short-
story.html?m=1
 Wikipedia. (December 11,2016). Danton
Remoto. Retrieved from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danton_Remo
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