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    Suan was a clever boy who was able to fool people into thinking he had divination skills. When the datu's daughter's ring went missing, Suan used his wits to discover it was a soldier who had taken it. As a reward, Suan married the princess. Later, Suan won bets by secretly listening to conversations and learning details about oranges and a golden ball. The story shows how an intelligent boy was able to use his skills to overcome obstacles and gain rewards through deception and trickery.

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    Suan was a clever boy who was able to fool people into thinking he had divination skills. When the datu's daughter's ring went missing, Suan used his wits to discover it was a soldier who had taken it. As a reward, Suan married the princess. Later, Suan won bets by secretly listening to conversations and learning details about oranges and a golden ball. The story shows how an intelligent boy was able to use his skills to overcome obstacles and gain rewards through deception and trickery.

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    Suan was a clever boy who was able to fool people into thinking he had divination skills. When the datu's daughter's ring went missing, Suan used his wits to discover it was a soldier who had taken it. As a reward, Suan married the princess. Later, Suan won bets by secretly listening to conversations and learning details about oranges and a golden ball. The story shows how an intelligent boy was able to use his skills to overcome obstacles and gain rewards through deception and trickery.

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    Grade 11/12 • Unit 5: Philippine Literature during the Precolonial Period

    Suan’s Good Luck

    (Kapampangan Hero Story)

    There was once an old woman who had an only son named Suan. Suan was a clever,
    sharp-witted boy. His mother sent him to school. Instead of going to school, however, Suan
    climbed up the tree that stood by the roadside. As soon as his mother had passed by from
    the market, Suan hurried home ahead of her. When she reached home, he cried, “Mother, I
    know what you bought in the market to-day.” He then told her, article by article. This same
    thing happened so repeatedly, that his mother began to believe in his skill as a diviner.

    One day the ring of the datu’s daughter disappeared. All the people in the locality searched
    for it, but in vain. The datu called for volunteers to find the lost ring, and he offered his
    daughter’s hand as a prize to the one who should succeed. Suan’s mother heard of the
    proclamation. So she went to the palace and presented Suan to the datu.

    “Well, Suan, to-morrow tell me where the ring is,” said the datu.

    “Yes, my lord, I will tell you, if you will give your soldiers over to me for to-night,” Suan
    replied.

    “You shall have everything you need,” said the datu.

    That evening Suan ordered the soldiers to stand around him in a semicircle. When all were
    ready, Suan pointed at each one of them, and said, “The ring is here, and nowhere else.” It
    so happened that Suan fixed his eyes on the guilty soldier, who trembled and became pale.
    “I know who has it,” said Suan. Then he ordered them to retire.

    Late in the night this soldier came to Suan, and said, “I will get the ring you are in search of,
    and will give it to you if you will promise me my safety.”

    “Give it to me, and you shall be safe,” said Suan.

    Very early the next morning Suan came to the palace with a turkey in his arms. “Where is
    the ring?” the datu demanded. “Why, sir, it is in this turkey’s intestines,” Suan replied. The
    turkey was then killed, and the ring was found inside it.
    Grade 11/12 • Unit 5: Philippine Literature during the Precolonial Period

    “You have done very well, Suan. Now you shall have my daughter’s hand,” said the datu. So
    Suan became the princess’s husband.

    One day the datu proposed a bet with anyone who wished to prove Suan’s skill.
    Accordingly, another datu came. He offered to bet seven cascos of treasure that Suan could
    not tell the number of seeds that were in his orange. Suan did not know what to do. At
    midnight he went secretly to the cascos. Here he heard their conversation, and from it he
    learned the number of seeds in the orange.

    In the morning Suan said boastfully, “I tell you, your orange has nine seeds.” Thus Suan
    won the whole treasure.

    Hoping to recover his loss, the datu came again. This time he had with him fourteen cascos
    full of gold. He asked Suan to tell him what was inside his golden ball. Suan did not know
    what to say. So in the dead of night, he went out to the cascos, but he could learn nothing
    there. The next morning Suan was summoned into the presence of the two datus. He had
    no idea whatever as to what was in the ball; so he said scornfully, “Nonsense!”

    “That is right, that is right!” shouted a man. “The ball contains nine cents.”

    Consequently, Suan won the fourteen cascos full of gold. From now on, nobody doubted
    Suan’s merit.

    Guide Questions

    1. Who is the central character? What is he like?


    2. What is the conflict of the story?
    3. What dramatic situations (Propp’s morphology) are present in the story? How do
    they develop the plot?
    4. How is the conflict resolved?
    5. What thematic message does the story seem to convey?

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