At Akoy Inanod by Marcel Navarra Review

The story At Akoy Inanod is a story that is in the first person point of view and it is
written that way for us, the readers, to understand what he has done to his bestfriend.
The story basically starts at the protagonist, Loloy, dreaming of Kid, his bestfriend, which
turned into a lion and starts strangling him and calling him a traitor. As the story gets to
the middle, we started to see the flaws of the protagonist. We started to notice that he is
a good short story writer, and can talk to girls really well but it is also said in the story
that his main weakness is women. We later realize that Kid also has a weakness against
women and it is when he cannot approach them well. Due to these flaws, they remain
friends for a very long time.
The main flaw of the Loloy got the best of him when she saw his bestfriends younger
sister, Pepita and asks him if he ever found true love. He laughs at the question of Pepita
then he leaves. Upon coming back to Kids house, he saw Pepita again but is feeling
angry as said in the story. He approached him and keeps on asking her if she is mad at
him but he does not get an answer until Pepita finally answers that she loves Loloy and
asks him why he does not like her. After saying this, Loloy and Pepita made love and it is
shown in the last parts of the story. I say this because of the use of words that pertains
to making love and then at the last paragraph it is said that Pepita smiles.
The first thing that comes into my mind when I read the story is that the main sin of
Loloy that made Kid mad is when he made love with Pepita and to not tell Kid
immediately but instead he wrote a letter of apology. But when we discussed it in class,
we realized that as told, Loloy is a good writer of short stories and that he is charismatic
in a way that he talks to girls well and therefore, he becomes an unreliable writer
because of this trait. It is said to us that all the good traits shown in the last paragraph
are not all true and that Loloy made that up to prepare Kid to tell him that he raped
Pepita because of lack of self-control and then hides it because of the good implications
that he included.