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A Feminist Criticism of Corazon Almerino’s Sugmat
World Lit
Cebu Technological University
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Introduction to Literary Theory
A Feminist Criticism of Corazon
Almerino’s
‘Sugmat’
Submitted by: Liezel B. Gamao Leslie Ann C. Laurenti Bregette S. Alampayan Keisha Mae L. Quiapo Nelchi Aiyn T. Pialago
‘Sugmat’ is a story of struggle of a woman in a context of family. The story depicts the challenges of motherhood where all responsibilities were thrown on them. It consists with the characters of Chona, a teacher in Cebu who got passed in an interview to work abroad. Together with her husband Boyet who’s on the same profession as her. They both tried their faith in California as a Special Education teacher and settled there. As a couple, they have been praying for a long time to have a child. And when the Virgin of Guadalupe grants their prayers, Chona experienced all the struggles of a woman in bearing a child. What intensifies it the most is when the baby was delivered three months before it should go out. As a result, the baby became premature that when it was born, they have to put it in an incubator. And when finally they get to touch their baby, the doctor told them that among all the body part of their baby, his eyes are the one that did not cope up with the development. They named him Dodong and growing up, he carry his disability of being a total bilnd. A year later, another storm had struck on their lives. A large tumor was found on Boyet’s sigmoid colon. Because of that, it leads him to death.
The main argument to be pointed out is how Chona managed to take all of these struggles as a woman and a mother in the house. This present the concept of cultural feminism which attributes to those differences distinctive and superior virtues in women. Being a mother and how she could endure hard and difficult phases in life is what makes her distinct. The way she managed to live and how she deals with these certain circumstances has made the reader go through and find out in the story.
One of the many factors in the story that contributes on the theory is the struggle of bearing a child. As what Chona experienced in the story, “My tongue is bland. My stomach has lower down because of the stinginess. I want to vomit. Turn off the lights! Turn off the TV! Throw that beef steak!” In contrast with Boyet, all he could offer were soothing words just to ease the pain. Another struggle that Chona experienced as a mother is when she can’t touch Dodong when he was born because of too much frailness. As what she told in the story, “another girl had just give birth. The cry of her baby could be heard even with the walls. The two of them are my everyday scene: when she would carry her baby. Then she’ll give him a breastfeed and when he feeds.
A Feminist Criticism of Corazon Almerino’s Sugmat
Course: World Lit
University: Cebu Technological University
