zitaBy: Arturo B. Rotor

By: Cristine Billaro

About the authorArturo Belleza Rotor

•Born in June 7, 1907- April 9, 1988•Filipino medical doctor, civil servant, musician and writer•Rotor died in 1988, survived by his wife Emma Unson, who taught college mathematics and physics. They had no children.•Born in the Philippines and attended the University of the Philippines

•Rotor was an internationally respected writer of fiction and non-fiction in English. He is widely considered among the best Filipino short story writers of the twentieth century. He was a charter member of the Philippine Book Guild; the guild's initial publication (1937) was Rotor's The Wound and the Scar, despite Rotor's protests that someone else's work should have been selected. In 1966, the Philippine government recognized his literary accomplishments by awarding him the Republic Cultural Heritage Award. Rotor's best-known literary works are The Wound and the Scar (1937), Confidentially, Doctor (1965), Selected Stories from the Wound and the Scar (1973), The Men Who Play God (1983), and the short stories "Dahong Palay" (1928) and "Zita" (1930).

•He graduated simultaneously from the conservatory of music and the college of medicine. He trained further at Johns Hopkins University's medical school, publishing a paper on a rare form of hyperbilirubinaemia(jaundice) now known as "Rotor syndrome".•During World War II, Rotor served as executive secretary of the Philippine Commonwealth government-in-exile under Manuel L. Quezon, the Philippine president in exile. In the immediate post-WWII period, he was appointed secretary of the Department of Health and Welfare. Later, Rotor was director of the University of the Philippines' Postgraduate School of Medicine and was a practicing physician until the early 1980s.

characters

Zita- is the girl who fell in love with her tutor which is Mr.Reteche she is the daughter of Don Eleodoro, she has the same characteristics and the same name of the girl that Mr.Reteche want to forget Mr.Francisco b. Reteche- a mysterious guy with a mysterious past that became the teacher of Zita.He secretly fell in love with Zita too. Don Eleodoro- father of zita who ask for Mr.Reteche to be his daughter's tutor Turong- the guy who let Mr.Reteche to stay

Setting

Island

summary

Zita is about a broken hearted teacher who comes to the land of Anayat. From the minute mr. Retche, he came to Zita, the province girl who coincidentally has the same name as her past lover. Zita's father asks Mr. Reteche to teach his daughter how to be 'a lady'. He agrees and teaches her how to dress, act and dance like a city lady. One day he told Zita to dress accordingly as he will teach her a Spanish dance. She does so and manages to show up like a true lady. She dances dreamily with her teacher, but Mr. Reteche doesn't show any affection towards her.

While they are dancing Turong came in, who hands a blue envelope. But Turong tore a letter into pieces and Zita was shock and he ask Turong he do that and Turong said that soon he will understand. after a while Zita realize that soon her teacher will go soon. Before Mr. Retche depart Zita dressed beautifully and she wait Mr. Retche to come in thier house to have a farewell but Mr. Retche did not come.

Theme

A girl who fell in love with his tutor

Approach

Analysis