Divide by Two By: Francisco Arcellana
Biography
Francisco "Franz" Arcellana (Zacarias Eugene Francisco Quino Arcellana) was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher. He was born in aka Frank V. Sta. Cruz, Manila. He is the fourth of 18 children of Jose Arcellana y Cabaneiro and Epifanio Quino. He was married to Emerenciana Yuvienco with whom he has six children, one of whom, Juaniyo is an essayist, poet and fictionist. He received his first schooling in Tondo . The idea of writing occurred to him at the Tondo Intermediate School but it was at the Manila West High School (later Torres High School) that he took up writing actively as staff member of The Torres Torch, the school organ.. In 1932 Arcellana entered the University of the Philippines (UP) as a pre-medicine student and graduated in 1939 with a bachelor of philosophy in degree. In his junior year, mainly because of the publication of his “trilogy of the turtles” in the Literary Apprentice, Arcellana was invited to join the UP Writers Club by Manuel Arguilla
SUMMARY
In the story was a lady named Belle. She was intelligent, very rational, that was the way she was portrayed in the story. He had his husband, his aficionado, I am not sure. The man is the narrator in the story.Belle, had been complaining about their neighbors’ un-neighborly behavior.
His man just ignored her.
“Get off me”, he said.
Belle informs her own lover that she had been making all the efforts to be as friendly as she could be. But these pesky neighbors won’t just move a face muscle and smile.
His man asked senseless, misleading questions, so that he wont hurt Belle’s feelings.
But still he ignored her.
“Get off me”, he said.
She talked about how their lady neighbor and his lover are being inconsiderate, putting a fence — boundary between their lawns even without asking permission from them. Talking about the halves not being halves at all.
Manly thing. That came to the mind of Belle’s chap. Still...