The wedding dance

The wedding dance "Theme"

• Outside, the villagers are dancing in celebration of the wedding. Awiyao leaves to try and comfort Lumnay. He offers her many items of the life that they built together.

• all about letting love go. A number of times the narrator draws the reader's attention to the floor as Lumnay pulls it apart.

• Awiyao finally leaves to re-join the wedding and Lumnay runs into the hills.

• Lumnay sits on the side of the mountain overlooking the blazing fire and dancing women, thinking about how her life has changed. She has a sense of desperation, isolation, and worthlessness.

The part of the story when "Outside, the villagers are dancing in celebration of the wedding. Awiyao leaves to try and comfort Lumnay. He offers her many items of the life that they built together. Lumnay refuses them and clings to Awiyao, wishing he would stay."

• Falling Action

• Climax

• Resolution

• Rising Action

What is the exposition of "The Wedding Dance?

• Outside, the villagers are dancing in celebration of the wedding. Awiyao leaves to try and comfort Lumnay. He offers her many items of the life that they built together

• The story begins at night in a mountain village in the Philippines, where Awiyao has just been remarried.

• Awiyao has left his wife Lumnay because she couldn’t give him a child. He has now married Madulimay in the hope of having a son.

• Lumnay sits on the side of the mountain overlooking the blazing fire and dancing women, thinking about how her life has changed. She has a sense of desperation, isolation, and worthlessness.

What is the setting of the story The wedding dance?

• The Philippines mountain village

• Village of the mountain in the Peru

• The mountain province

• The mountain village of the Philippines where Awiyao has been remarried.

Why Awiyao married his second wife?

• Because he doesn't have a choice

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  Because he loves her so much

• Because he forces his parents to marry her

• Because Lumnay was not able to give him a child