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CLPW - Meaning Making (Finals)

The document is a literature assignment from Notre Dame of Dadiangas University in the Philippines. Students are instructed to read and analyze the short story "Laughing" by Dan Rhodes. They are asked to interpret the story and explain what experiences led to their analysis, using the Reader Response Approach. The story is about a man whose girlfriends keep dying after laughing at things he says or does, with the last girlfriend leaving him because he is not funny or fun to be with.

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CLPW - Meaning Making (Finals)

The document is a literature assignment from Notre Dame of Dadiangas University in the Philippines. Students are instructed to read and analyze the short story "Laughing" by Dan Rhodes. They are asked to interpret the story and explain what experiences led to their analysis, using the Reader Response Approach. The story is about a man whose girlfriends keep dying after laughing at things he says or does, with the last girlfriend leaving him because he is not funny or fun to be with.

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NOTRE DAME OF DADIANGAS UNIVERSITY

Integrated Basic Education Department


Senior High School
Lagao, General Santos City

21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World

Student’s Name: Date Submitted:


Grade & Section:

Quarter: FINALS Week No.: 15


Teacher/s:

Instructions: Read and understand “Laughing” by Dan Rhodes. Using the Reader Response Approach,
write your own analysis of the text.
Guide questions:
∙ How did you come up with that interpretation?
∙ What is/are the significant experience/s that led you to that analysis?

LAUGHING
My girlfriend died laughing at one of my funny faces. Her friends were kind and told me I shouldn't feelguilty;
that she would have wanted to have died that way. They weren't there; her musical laughter turned to
chokes, grunts, and her death rattle. When I stopped grieving, I found a beautiful new girl to love. She died
laughing at a joke I made about her feet. The next one passed away similarly. My last girlfriend didn't die.
She left me. She said we never had any fun together. That she wanted a man with a sense of humor.

Rhodes, D., (2000)

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