Chapter 5
Summary of Findings, Conclusion, and Recommendations
This section includes the summary of the paper and the conclusion of the findings based
on the analysis of the selected short stories and the recommendations raised for enhancing the
study and crafting lesson exemplar in literature use in delivering lessons in class.
Summary of Findings
This section presents the summarization of the study. The following are the main points
the researchers collected and found from the selected short stories in the 21st Century by Filipino
writers. The selected short stories used are The Summer of my 17 th” by H. O. Santos, “Kara’s
Place” by Luis Joaquin M. Katigbak, “Meditations of a Piss Artist” by Menchu Aquino
Sarmiento, “The Martini Effect” by Doreen D.L. Jose, “The Steel Brassiere” by Iris Sheila G.
Crisostomo, “Sinigang” by Marie Aubrey J. Villaceran, “The Kite of Stars” by Dean Francis, and
“Touch” by Lakambini Sitoy.
The study examines the characteristics of female Filipino youth in the selected 21st
century short stories. The researcher applied Simone de Beauvoir’s feminism, narcissist, woman
in love, and mystic.
1. What fictional representation of women can be gleaned from the 21st century
Philippine short stories?
- The fictional representation of women that can be gleaned from the 21st
century Philippine short stories are narcissist characteristic and they are also
women in love. These characteristics are based on the experiences and other
characters that impacted them in their lives.
2. Based on the results, what blended classroom lesson material can be crafted in
teaching to discover literature as a tool to assert one’s unique identity and to better
understand other people?
- See Appendix for the lesson exemplar –
Conclusion
This section presents the conclusion of the study. The following are the generalized
points and ideas the researcher concluded from the study.
1. The women characters in the story possess the characteristics of narcissism and
woman in love. The researcher did not find a character that possess a mystic
characteristic of all the eight selected short stories. these women characters who
became narcissist and show women in love characteristic are because of the trials and
challenges they had been through and because of the attention that are seeking from
the Other. The situation and the environment which housed the women characters
influenced in nurturing their attributes towards their selves, their families and the
society at large.
2. Some of the characteristics possessed by the women characters in the short stories are
still manifested with today’s Filipino women. Some of the qualities of the Filipino
women still exist. The short stories can awaken or expose the reality of life to some
women.