INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

A
BOOK REPORT

THE CENTIPEDE
BY RONY V. DIAZ

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Alexanda R. Oreta Ma’am Dela China
 The Centipede by Rony V. Diaz

I. Settings
 In the Hut his sister of Delia’s playhouse.
 In the Eddie and Delia’s house.
 The Woodshed – Where Berto is splitting up the woods.
 In the playground.

II. Characters
 Eddie – Main Character
 Delia – Eddie’s Sister
 Biryuk – The lost Dog have been found by Eddie while hunting
 Berto – One of the workmen for the family
 Father – Eddie and Delia’s Dad

III. Summary
 The story is all about a misunderstanding between Eddie and his sister
Delia. The conflict between the two started when Delia provoked her
brother Eddie by a way of attacking and destroying Eddie’s pet and the
things that are important to the life of Eddie. Delia does not want Eddie
to be happy in life because she likes watching Eddie suffering from what
wrong act she has done. Delia treated Eddie as a rival and enemy, not a
brother. Delia always blaming her brother about the death of their
mother. Delia always thinking that Eddie is more important to their
father rather than her because of the affection of her father towards to
him. She has a bad character and she is a jealous girl. She used her
illness as an alibi so that she can do more bad things towards to her
brother Eddie because she knew that Eddie wouldn’t fight back because
he is a good person. Eddie endures all the bad things caused by his sister
because he knew as a younger brother of Delia he always tried to
understand all the bad things done by his sister due to her illness. Eddie
 did nothing against his sister when Delia did something bad to his
monkey, his pigeons and his butterflies. After all things, Eddie’s patience
has an end, when Eddie saw Delia stabbing the eye of his dog that time
Eddie cannot control his anger anymore, he revenged against his sister
by using centipede to frighten his sister Delia. A while after, Delia fell
down and cried with pained. And Eddie realized that he was not
supposed to do it with his sister however bad Delia is towards to him. He
realized that damaged has already been done and cannot be reversed
anytime.

IV. Moral lesson

 This story has a good lesson to be inspired by others because a revenged
cannot solve anything, and don’t let our anger deceive us to do that.
Eddie did understand the way his sister treated him even though it is
more physical but from deep of his heart the love for his sister never
regret. So even you’ve been hurt by your love one, you are still giving
her/him a forgiveness because you love them and you will never regret
that. Loving the important person to you is the best feeling in this world.
And “In every decision, there is a consequence.” Every wrong it could be
settle in an understandable and good way, so we should not make hasty
decision in life without thinking it over and over again to avoid regrets.
And what you sow, is what you reap. And don’t revenge in anyone,
because revenge will never make you happy. So we should just forget
the things that have a negative impact to us because it will lead it in the
bad way and it will stress us out.

V. Recommendation
 This story is good to read because it will inspire us to our lives. It will
also taught us that revenge cannot give us a peaceful life. And it will
teach us that loving towards your siblings even if she has a bad or a
good character we should treasure them the most and love them
unconditionally, because nobody is perfect we make a mistakes. We
should love one another.
VI. Conclusion
 As for conclusion, revenge is not good for anyone, it will cause hurt to
anyone around you. Let’s understand each other, we shouldn’t let other
caused a pain towards to what we done by our wrong and insensitive
actions.