The line "don't judge a book by its cover." literally descrives Stevan Javellana's book, Without Seeing the Dawn. At first glance at this book, you would think it has nothing to say because of its dull covering. However, this book is exactly the opposite. Stevan Javellana presented to his readers the Filipino way of life, dreams and aspirations and how it has been shattered and destroyed. With no more than a blink of an eye, a seemingly simple story about a typical life of the Filipinos revolved into a nightmare.
Javellana recounts to us all that have happened when he was still young with the presence of the main character Carding. Carding is a simple and industrious young man who has straightforward goal in life. He wanted to get married and live a happy and normal life. However,his dream was shattered when the Japanese came and colonized the Philippined.
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English: A Russell Stovers box of milk chocolates.This was depicted throught the experrienced othe people from a small town where Carding lived. The Japanese came and they abused and killed many people, worst of all they maltreated and demoralized women. This changed the life of Carding completely. His once innocent childhood dreams quickly vanished and what took over were anger, hatred and the determination not to live his normal life but to seek revenge.
The characters Javellana used in the book was so realistic that when you read it you get carried with the line of thought of the story. Javellana expresses the story in full detail as to prestent to its readers impressions on how the characters think, feel and why they react differntly with every circumstance they face. The author presented the conflicting plot of the story in an extraordinary way. He divided the story into two parts, which were independent from ne another.