The story was only short made more ecstatic through its different estranging descriptions. It was a wonderful story only showing the life of a poor but energetic peasant.
The story is about a peasant boy and a peasant girl’s encounter in a remote village well at noontime with the burning summer heat. They both have the same low status. The setting in the story brought about the bareness, loss of hope and success. It wasn't a comfortable place. Their culture was similar to a rural place. But all the negative side of the place was just useless for the vigor of the characters.
The actions of the peasant girl was more like a " Maria Clara" during the Spanish era. She was a timid and very conservative one. She has to live with only “rice and salt” in contrast with the man’s “rice, egg, salt, brown sugar and dried shrimps.” In fact, she felt bad with the situation. It still showed how she was low treated and deprived as any marginalized woman in the society. But the man treated her well and respected her.
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