... , captures the grandeur of Bacolod, the tradition of Negros society, and the haughty demeanor of hacienderos, in this novel that won the grand prize from the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2002. He sets his narrative on the small island of Negros, a land associated with fields and fields of sugarcane that dates back during the Spanish colonization. The Sky Over ... . Analysis A. Setting The story takes place on Negros Occidental, in the city of Bacolod, where sugar production is as inescapable as death. In this small island in Visayas, whose existence and identity de...

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... ago in the land of Skyloo a mother was giving birth to a baby girl. She named her "Maiden." Maiden was a beautiful young baby soft brown hair and dark brown eyes. The mother and father were weary of keeping the child, frighten that she might grow to have more beauty than of the Goddess Lydian. Everyone in the ... cloth over her face and forbidden her from taking it off. Maiden did not know of the Goddess of Lydian nor did she know the reasons for her parents" strange ways. So she did what she was told, until she met Dorian. Dorian was Lydian's evil twin brother; he was a very sly young ...

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• Grade Level: High School