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    Merlinda Bobis is an award-winning Filipino writer who grew up in Albay, Philippines near an active volcano that features prominently in her work. As a child, she enjoyed painting but began writing poetry at age 10 because it was cheaper than painting. She has published various works across multiple genres. Her plays have been performed internationally in over 10 countries. The passage discusses her imaginative writing style and ability to transport readers to her vividly described settings and experiences.

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    Merlinda Bobis is an award-winning Filipino writer who grew up in Albay, Philippines near an active volcano that features prominently in her work. As a child, she enjoyed painting but began writing poetry at age 10 because it was cheaper than painting. She has published various works across multiple genres. Her plays have been performed internationally in over 10 countries. The passage discusses her imaginative writing style and ability to transport readers to her vividly described settings and experiences.

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    Bobis

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    Merlinda Bobis is an award-winning Filipino writer who grew up in Albay, Philippines near an active volcano that features prominently in her work. As a child, she enjoyed painting but began writing poetry at age 10 because it was cheaper than painting. She has published various works across multiple genres. Her plays have been performed internationally in over 10 countries. The passage discusses her imaginative writing style and ability to transport readers to her vividly described settings and experiences.

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    Award-winning writer Merlinda Bobis grew up in Albay, the

    Philippines at the foot of an active volcano, which figures prominently in


    her writing and performance. As a child, her main interest was painting,
    but at age ten she began writing poetry because ‘painting with words’
    was cheaper. She has published novels, short stories, dramas, and poems.
    Her plays have been produced/performed on stage and radio in
    Australia, the Philippines, Spain, USA, Canada, Singapore, France,
    China, Thailand, and the Slovak Republic. She has performed some of
    her works as theatre, dance, and music.

    (Source: http://www.merlindabobis.com.au/biography.htm)

    I admire Merlinda Bobis for creating beautiful imagery in her prose.


    She’s able to create stories that make you feel like you’re in the story
    itself. She pulls you in with her paragraphs that’s easy to imagine and
    feel. When her story describes food, you can feel your taste buds tingle in
    delight. When her story describes places, you can feel that you have
    visited that spot before and so on.

    I feel the need to say that she may have written this story in order to give
    a lesson and showcase how multiculturism has changed society over the
    years. We were all divided before globalization has started. It takes
    months for a message in this country to reach the other one. People were
    sheltered to only know a certain culture which is their own and now we
    can appreciate everyone’s culture by taking the time and effort to get to
    know this specific culture from another country.

    The theme of this book, multiculturism, isn’t far from what Philippine
    literature can offer. Most of the modern Philippine literature published
    today has influences from world literature but it mainly focuses on our
    own culture, unlike this story, it promotes several cultures.
    To keep the story short, this is a story of 5 different people who came
    from different countries. They shared a dish to one another in order to
    give someone a taste of what their culture is like. (No, really! That’s the
    summary!)

    It’s a wholesome story that I ever read about sharing one’s culture. It’s
    a bite-sized story you can easily read without having to sit through an
    hour trying to figure out what’s the meaning of a certain object that
    wasn’t meant to have meaning at all.

    The best literary approach for this story is Sociological Criticism. It


    examines literature in the cultural, economic and political context in
    which it is written or received. It explores the relationship of an artist
    and the society. Sometimes it examines the artist’s society to better
    understand the author’s literary works; other times, it may examine the
    representation of such societal elements within the literature itself.

    (Source: http://home.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/spring97/litcrit.html)

    I like this story for its admirable writing style. It’s a beautiful
    representation of how ‘show and tell’ works. I can’t help but look back at
    how it was written from time to time. Her writing style is delicate and
    imaginative. The way she describes the ‘taste of the food’ makes me ‘feel
    hungry’ to know about other cultures and how these people experience
    them. I also like how this story wasn’t ‘in-your-face-philosophical” type
    of narrative. Some stories just tend to go overboard in showing
    symbolism and moral lessons that just tend to be overwhelming.

    However, some of the descriptions didn’t sit right with me. Some
    descriptions just seem off and tend to give another picture instead of the
    actual intention. The first opening lines were a bit difficult to understand
    but after rereading again, I came to terms with it.
    I would recommend this book to… everybody!

    This story won’t make someone bored and it’s entertaining to read. This
    story is perfect for both light and heavy readers who want to view
    different cultures in a new perspective and a respectable way.

    Overall, I give this story 9 out of 10 cookies. Beautiful! Just


    beautiful!

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