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Task 3. Locate, Reflect, Evaluate!
Complete the table below by writing down the actions taken by the characters in
the story. After filling out the second column, decide what these characters‘ motives
were for taking those particular actions. The first set has been done for you.
Characters Actions Motives
The monsters wreaked havoc
all throughout Mindanao and
their actions drove the people
from their homes.
1. The four
monsters
2. Sulayman
The monsters probably saw the
humans as sources of food,
and the attacks that followed
made sure that the people
would be too scattered to resist
them.
3. Indarapatra
4. The people in the
caves
Task 3. Watch Out!
A. Study the following sentences. Write C if the sentence is a compound
sentence and write S if it is a simple sentence.
1. The epic does not state where the monsters which ravaged Mindanao came
from.
2. The epic also doesn‘t state where Indarapatra and Sulayman came from
either.
3. Some experts say that Indarapatra and Sulayman came from Borneo, and
their arrival represented the Indones wave of migrants to the Philippine
islands.
4. Mindanao was depicted as a troubled land in the epic, and this depiction
seems true even to this age.
5. The people of Mindanao initially fought the monsters, but the monsters were
just too powerful for them to overcome.
6. Sulayman‘s revival is seen as proof of his supernatural heritage.
7. Epic heroes often have supernatural abilities, but they too have weaknesses.
8. The heroes in this epic simply wanted to help people in distress.
9. Indarapatra‘s marriage to the headman‘s daughter explains how his people
came to Mindanao.
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