Article 2:

 "Into the World of Words"

by:  I. V. Mallari

     Ismael Mallari was one of the early Filipino writers in English. He is ranked as leading literary and art critic in the Philippines. More than anything else, he was an essayist.Ismael Mallari was one of the early Filipino writers in English..He is ranked as leading literary and art critic in the Philippines. While Mallari could not be ranked among th abler critics of the older school, he was conceded by a number of informed persons to be the best writer on problems of Architecture and city planning. He wrote on Architecture with the understanding and skill of a truly artistic temperament.

     For the Little Boy, the first year of his stay in the public school was a momentous period of discovery and realization. The sommolent attitude that he used to have towards books was supplemented by one of excited interesst, because he found out to his amazement that words were living things which he could harness as the chariot of his dreams. He learned, to begin with, that words were not merely sounds to be made in the mouth and thundered at the schoolmaster to convince that old worthy that the lesson had been conned. Words, he found out, stood for objects in much the same way as his own name stood fo for objects in much the same way as his own name stood for himself. When he called friends’ names, they came to him.The Little Boy first the burnt of this power or words when an angry classmate called him a name that seemed to shrivel his whole being and make him recall the havoc that the Unknown destroyer had played upon the Garden. He had been cut with a bolo before. He had been bitten by a dog. He had been whipped by the schoolmaster. But never before had he felt it now. He was too stunned for either speech or actions; and when finally anger came to the rescue of pain, the offender was already too far away for his avenging fists.He had never thought of words as weapons before, but one lesson was enough for the little Boy. He soon learned to dip these weapons in the venom of the serpent and the asp, or to hide them in the silken folds of other words smooth and glossy. For he was to find again and again that this world of Christianity and brotherly love was full of people who relished stabbing one another’s back with words if not with swords.

   "Words are windows through which we interpret the world." Words in our life is really important.Word is a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with otrhers to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed. Our words change us and the people around us.