NICK JOAQUIN:SUMMER SOLSTICE

         Nick Joaquin is really fun of superstitious events considering that there are scenes in his stories especially in the "summer solstice" that are really far from reality. It involved scenes that are out of control and done harshly. But although the story contains unbelievable and exaggerated events, I like the way it was presented because in a single way it teaches us lessons. Like "the man should not always think of being superior to his wife but rather treat her as important as his life". In the summer solstice there is a revenge of a wife to her husband because of not being a good man to her. I like the part when Doña Lupeng let her husband crawl like an agonize lizard and kissed her feet because it was the time that Don Paeng must pay those hardships that his partner encountered living beside him. The characters are really weird!! I like the way the story ends because woman become the superior to her husband. It seems that in spite of those sufferings,woman finally won the game!!!