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Though respect for family elders is extolled as a Filipino virtue, many of the parents, especially the lathers, in the frame story and in the oral tales are absent, weak, or otherwise neglectful of their children. Analyzing the general Prologue and the shorter prologues to each day's storytelling, Thysell sees the Heptameron frame story portraying the spiritual transformation of a providentially guided Christian community where the Holy Spirit grows in their midst day by day. It is as outstanding for the sociocultural sensitivity, insightfulness, and authority of Williams's frame story as it is for the illuminating depth, range, and candor of the mutually respectful dialogue with Himes. |
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