Ibong Adarna Summaries – Part 3
Viloria.net on 14 Dec 2008
Part 3 (Stanzas 493 – 858)
The three brothers find a dark and deep well. The eldest, Don Pedro, is lowered into the well by his two brothers. He grows frightened by the dark and asks to be hoisted up after going down only 30 feet. Yes, fear is a factor for him.
Don Diego attempts but also fails.
Don Juan gives it a try and reaches the bottom (100 feet below).
He finds a golden door and quickly enters a place filled with crystal-paved roads, sweet-smelling flowers, and palaces made of gold and silver. He also meets the beautiful Princess Juana.
Since she is held prisoner by a giant, Don Juan kills the giant. Before they could leave, however, Pricess Juana tells Don Juan about her sister, Leonora, who is being held prisoner by a seven-headed serpent.
Don Juan battles the serpent but each time he chops off a head, it simply reattaches itself to the serpent’s body. Fortunately, Princess Leonora throws him some bottled liquid which he has to pour on each cut part to prevent the heads from reattaching themselves to the serpent’s body.
He thus saves Princess Leonora, and together with Princess Juan and Leonora’s wolf, they are pulled out of the well by Don Juan’s two older brothers.
Don Pedro immediately falls in love with Princess Leonora (who’s in love, quite predictably, with Don Juan).
Princess Leonora remembers that she left behind a diamond ring, and Don Juan offers to go down the well again in order to retrieve it. She tries to stop him but he insists. Don Pedro lets go of the rope after lowering his youngest brother only 10 feet, so Don Juan badly falls down the 100-foot well.
Princess Leonora throws her wolf down the well and instructs it to look after Don Juan.
Pedro, Diego, Juana and Leonora return to Berbania. Diego and Juana get married, while Leonora asks the amorous Pedro to wait first for seven years because she has a religious pact to fulfill.
(There is no such pact. She was simply stalling and hoping that Don Juan would return soon.)
In the meantime, the wolf finds the injured Don Juan and heals him with water taken from the Jordan river. After recovering from his fall, Don Juan finds the diamond ring of Princess Leonora and walks back to Berbania.
It’s a long way back to Berbania, and the tired Don Juan rests under a tree. The Ibong Adarna perches on the tree and sings. Don Juan wakes up and listens to the lyrics of the Ibong Adarna’s song.
It probably sounded like a popular OPM song, because Don Juan discovers from the lyrics that Leonora always thinks of him. The song continues, however, and reveals that there is a woman who is prettier than Leonora.
She is Doña Maria Blanca, daughter of King Salermo of the Crystal Kingdom (Delos Cristal). The song also tells Don Juan that he can proudly present Maria Blanca to his father, King Fernando.
(So much for gratitude to Leonora, eh?)
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its not detailed enough. btw, thanks for this summary.:)
thanks for the summary i helped me a lot =)
posting a link like this will not really help the students,
It will just make the students lazy since they know that the net can supply the summaries and because of that dont have to spend time reading the books,,,
It is not a helping tool.
im an educator, im not agaist you, im just concern to my students.
im expecting for a reply in my email add.
@huh! – I tried emailing you, but your email address isn’t working. So I’ll just post my reply here:
Perhaps you can give more details on why you think posting
Ibong Adarna summaries (in English) online will make students lazy?
From what I have seen, and based on students I have surveyed,
they still end up reading the Ibong Adarna in Tagalog. The online
summaries (in English) are not enough to make them completely
disregard the Tagalog text.
Please see the sample comment here
http://www.viloria.net/ibong-adarna/ibong-adarna-summaries-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6412
So if you have some kind of basis for your statement about students
getting lazy and not reading the actual book, I’d be interested in
hearing your side.
thnx 4 d summary! i left my book and i have 2 make a script 4 our movie. thnx a lot! good thing i’m a good translator…
i have read the comment of an educator. i disagree to what he said. i am a student of paranaque science high and we have reference books in which we can look for informations. we surf the net if we can’t find the information we have to look for or if we have to copy something and its just too long.
well, since this is only a summary, the advantage of reading the book is to get more specific details of the story and to learn and to encounter new deep filipino words.
i think, the point of the educator is; since the book has deep words, the students don’t want to read it for they don’t understand and they don’t want to waste time “searching” for the meaning of the words.
TO HUH!: sir/ma’am, not to insult your being an educator.. i just wanna comment on what you said for this may make your mind clearer. no offense plzzzz… i hope we can chat sometimes…
THNX AGAIN!!! :]
Tnx For the SummAry!! Really heLped me AloT!!
To: HUH! (“the” educator)
i understand that ur an educator but there’s just too many damn stanzas and here i am ALWAys providing the lines for my classmates so i guess i cud use a little, ok BIG help from the net.
im pretty sure when u were in our age u would also find help from anything considering there are 1717 stanzas with about 70% of its content are impossible to understand
haha thanks for the summary!!!!!!!!!
to: HUH!
i think its the professors short-coming if the students arent motivated enough to sincerely read their Adarnas and search on-line instead.
Thank you for this site! Your comments make reading the Ibong Adarna seem easier. Such deep Filipino requires a Tagalog-English dictionary beside you. This is very useful, since I’m making a rough draft of a script for Ibong Adarna. Thanks again!
..uhmm kung pwede po sana tagalog version. thanks again
tnx for the summary!i dont think the summarized stuff would make lazy students…i believed it could actually make the students interested to some classic like Ibong Adarna, it could pick their interest most likely…