NANKING STORE
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" The Nanking Store" is the story which I like most because in this story we can get moral lesson which is really applicable to our real life situation and there are many people who can relate this story especially those couple who couldn't conceive a child in the long run of their marriage. The passage of the story is all about "How Linda and Peter handle a serious problem about their marriage specifically of not having a child. In the first part of the story, it is described that their marriage is full of love, care, chase of each other and full of joy until such time that they found out that there is something wrong about their marriage because one of them cannot conceive a child. So this is the start of the Calvary of Linda wherein she is being maltreated by her mother in law because the parents of Peter was afraid that Peter couldn't conceive a child because it is very important for them to have a grandson for the reason that Peter is the only son of the family.
Time will come Peter find another woman and he has a relationship to the prostitute and they have a son. At first the prostitute perceived by the community as a "bad woman" and later on she has been accepted by the community as well as by the family of Peter. Then one day Peter suffered in a car accident and this is the reason of his death. After a couple of years, after the death of Peter, Linda went to Manila and few years later she go back to Cebu and she got pregnant and the father of her baby is her driver.
What I like most of this story is the moral lesson we can get from the selection because it is somehow related of committing to a married life. This story is serve as our guide of choosing a right partner for the future. From this story, I realized that married life is not just easy as anyone thinks. As a youth, we should put in our minds that one secrets of having a harmonious relationship with our partner for the future is the acceptance and it is also important to remain honest and loyal to them for whatever happen.
