ISANG POOK:
DALAWANG PANAHON
EVELYN ESTRELLA SEBASTIAN
EVELYN ESTRELLA
SEBASTIAN
Evelyn Estrella Sebastian is the fifth of sixth children of the late
Eugenio R. Estrella and Maria Lomotan of Malolos, Bulacan. Her
elementary schooling was at Malolos Elementary School, while
her high school studies were at Marcelo H. del Pilar High School
where she was a prize-winning orator. After finishing secondary
education, she went to University of the East to pursue a Business
Administration degree, major in accounting, at a time when
courses in UE were offered on a quarterly basis. Thus, she
finished college in just over thee years.
Mrs. Sebastian’s earliest recollection of an awakened interest in
writing was wher her Grade V teacher wrote a short story which
was published in Liwayway. This inspired the young Evelyn so
much that she confided to her mother that someday she, too,
would like to be a writer whose stories would be published and
would be enjoyed by readers.
It is often said that a prolific writer is first and foremost a
voracious reader. This was true of Mrs. Sebastian who loved to
read. This honed her facility in the use of words and most
certainly widened her vocabulary. Curiously, although her
Palanca awards were her literary pieces in Filipino, her readings
were mostly in English. But then, when one has been gifted y
the Divine Giver with the potential to write, that potential, if
tapped and motivated, will eventually develop, ‘bloom’, and
manifest itself in the language of one’s choice; provided that one
has to be adept in the use of that language.
At that time when the writing bug hit her really hard, so to speak,
there was a column in the Liwayway magazine for new writers.
The column was tagged, Pitak ng Bagong Dugo. The first short
story she was interested to see published was sent to that
column. Overnight, Mrs. Sebastian became a celebrity at their
dormitory.
Motivated, she wrote another short story this time about a
dormitory resident. Although fiction, it was so realistically written
that any dorm inmate could easily relate to the situations treated
in the story. Again, it was published in Liwayway, but this time,
no longer in the section for new writers. Instead, her short story
was placed with those of established professional writers. "Isang
Pook, Dalawang Panahon," was her first short story that won in
the Don Carlos Palanca Jr. Awards for Filipino Writers.
Today, Mrs. Evelyn Estrella Sebastian still writes for the
Liwayway magazine and gets tons of praises from well-known
people. Her stories still revolve around the reality of life; with her
realistic-setting stories, she hopes to inspire the young
generation.
CHARACTERS:
nanay Tita Celia
Alma Vic tita
Alma- pangunahing tauhan sa kwento
Nanay – ina ni Alma
Tita Celia – Tita ni Alma
Vic – unang nakilala ni Alma sa Dormitoryo at naging
kasintahan nya
Rita – ang babaeng sumira sa relasyon nina Alam at Vic
Erwin – naging kasintahan ni Alma na ipinalit nya
SETTING:
Dormitoryo
PLOT:
Dumating sina Alma at ang kanyang tita sa dormitoryo
Nagsimula ang buhay ni Alma sa dormitoryo
Nakilala nya si Vic
Nagtaksil si Vic at Rita
Nakilala ni Alma si Erwin
Nagtapos si Alma (nagbihis ang dormitoryong kanyang tinuluyan pati ang mga
lugar na kinatatayuan nito)
Styles of the author:
Conflict (Tao vs. tao)
Flashback
Cultural Implication:
Pagpapanatili ng tradisyunal na ugali ng Pilipino
Theme:
Ang lahat ay nagbabago
Implication of the title:
THANK YOU!