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Emperor's New Underwear

        I.        I.    Background of the author

Macaraig was born in Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines on November 5, 1927 to Catalino Macaraig and Ignacia Tiacho Macaraig. His only sibling was a younger sister, Gloria, born in 1932.

Macaraig, called Taling by his family and Mac by his friends, was a product of the Philippine public school system from his elementary to his university years: Santa Ana Elementary School, Araullo High School, Arellano High School (where he graduated in 1946), and the University of the Philippines (U.P.), where he graduated in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)

While at U.P., Macaraig was a member of Upsilon Sigma Phi, the oldest Greek-letter fraternity in Asia. He was also a member of the U.P. Vanguards, the university’s Reserve Officer Training Corps Unit and the pioneer of the ROTC in the Philippines. He was into athletics as a member of the U.P. varsity weight-lifting team and the U.P. Law swimming team.

After he obtained his law degree and passed the Philippine bar exams in 1952, Macaraig left for the United States and earned a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in 1954 from the University of Michigan Law School, where he specialized in International Law and Public Administration.

Macaraig also received awards from his alma maters in later years. Among these awards were the Most Distinguished Alumnus Award (Sunburst Order – Golden Class) of the Arellano (Manila North) High School in 1977 and the Upsilonian Noble and Outstanding (UNO) Award, the highest recognition conferred on Upsilonians.

On December 18, 1955, he married Araceli (Celi) Villareal Andaya (Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of the Philippines (U.P.), 1952; Master of Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1954), a native of Mambusao, Capiz. Their six children are Marissa, Miriam, Mel, Monina, Mynardo and Muriel—all graduates of U.P., holders of law or masters degrees, and noted in their respective fields.

                                       

        I.            Summary (Link)

http://www.answers.com/Q/Summary_of_the_Emperor's_New_Underwear_by_Mynardo_Macaraig

      II.            Story Elements

A.      Setting

Ceremonial Parade in the Emperor's Kingdom

B.      Characterization

a.       The Protagonist

Ø  Emperor - an emperor who is always proud of his palace, of his city, and who is found in his beautiful clothes.

b.      The Antagonist

Ø  Max and Rex - the two lazy swindlers who trick the emperor to make lots of money by making a fake magic garment.

c.       The Supporting character

Ø  Prime Ministers, Officials, People

d.      The Victim

Ø  Is also the Emperor

C.      Plot

Ø  A story about a man becoming materialistic on his world, and he is so blinded by wanting the best dress that he want. And all of a sudden the two swindlers lie at him.

D.      Conflict

a.       Man vs. Himself

Ø  This is when he thinks that the mistakes will destroy him that when he have been stripped in his imperial dignity.

b.      Man vs. Society

Ø  This is when the Emperor sees himself that he was been fooled by those charlatans and all his people, chamberlain sees him as a fool. For this, the Emperor issued a new decree effective immediately that all citizens of the empire must dress in underwear and nothing else.

E.       Climax

Ø  This is the time when all the citizens have known the proclamation made by the Emperor. Some of the people where absolutely shocked. And all the people in the street are strip. The few citizens were locked up in their houses. And soon, the Emperor wants another parade and the town was assembled once more to see. All people were disgusted by him. So the people decided to just wear their regular clothing like normal people. The next morning, the Emperor got very angry because of the people wearing their regular clothes.

F.       Denouement / Anti-Climax

Ø  The chamberlain of his explain and speak what should he need to hear rather what he want to hear. He explains everything to the emperor. He said, "it's like this: now, when you first paraded around in your underwear, you must admit that you did look a bit foolish. Of course, you can't deny that you were a fool to be taken in by those two con men. "you were fooled, true, but so were we naturally, we didn't hold it against you for being fooled too but you see, we had become fools once already and now, here you were with your new decree making us become fools twice! Well, we were tolerant about being fooled once, but being forced to become fools - that was another matter entirely." "But what of my royal dignity?" asked the emperor. "How can I erase the stain of my humiliation?" "You can't," said the chamberlain, "but consider this: what could be more humiliating to an emperor than to be driven from his throne because of underwear?"

G.     Ending

The Ending of the story is Happy Ending

Ø  Because the emperor realize the chamberlain’s words. So that the emperor decree abolished.

H.      Vocabulary

Allegiance – the obligation of a feudal vassal to his liege lord.

Sneer – to smile or laugh with facial contortions that express scorn or contempt.

Inconsolable – incapable of being consoled or in other word bad.

Valorous – valiant.

Precipitate – to throw violently.

Ermine – any of several weasels whose coats become white in winter usually with black   on the tip the tail, especially a short tailed weasel.

I.        Moral of the Story

The moral of the story is don’t trust to much the people around you, even though you are the in highest position and don’t be selfish even though you are more like stupid in front of entire people, accept the fact that once in a life time you are embarrassing in front of you domination. Because sometimes innocent children can see things more clearly than adults. Don’t always assume that people around you is always right even though you are in higher position. Recommendation

Ø  If you become a leader, be humble and kind. Never boss people around you think about how you would like to be treated. Because leaders become great, not because on their power, but because of their ability to empower others. And also a leader leads by example, whether he intends or not.

J.        Personal Comment

Ø  The story was very nice. You can learn a lot from the story. Like being honest to yourself. Not pretend that you really know the happening around you. And the most important thing is love your domination, love people around you, don’t be selfish because you are embarrass in front of the entire people.