Sepang Loca Analysis

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The play starts and ends with Danilo narrating. Danilo is building a highway on what used to be Sepang Loca’s garden. He is reminded of what happened 9 or 10 years ago when this fishing village awoke to the death of Sepang Loca. He remembers her, with brown skin and supple body, gliding her way into a throng of dancing women during the Feast Day of Sta. Clara, pleading with her to give them a child. She wore a tattered red skirt which she kicked in full abandon revealing her shapely legs. Her breasts throbbed against her tight and scanty blouse. The dancing women were scandalized so they encircled her to hide her from the men folk. But she escaped and the dancing women pinned her down, scattering her crown of flowers, leaving her in tears as she crawled on the ground. Sepang Loca was the village idiot, the town’s clown with the perpetual grin.…show more content…
Clara’s Feast Day, Old Mother Elena, Sepa’s neighbor, heard a baby cry. She brought her some broth to stir her milk. But Sepa was nowhere to be found. The folks remembered that after giving birth, she always bathed herself and the baby at the well. They found her there, dead, slumped over the rim of the old well, her arms stretched inward, presumably reaching for the baby she dropped inside. That evening at dinnertime, Danilo’s mother told his father – the Mayor, to button his collar to cover his birthmark – a big black teardrop -- because it was staring at her like an eye. She told her son that the first time she saw it, father pulled himself proudly and said, “My father gave me this,” pointing to his chest, “and I’ll give it to my son!” It was the first sign she sought when she nursed Danilo for the first

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