Early life

Born in Jolo, Sulu, she was christened Putli Kerima. Her father was an army colonel, and her mother taught home economics. Due to her father's frequent transfers in assignment, she lived in various places and studied in the public schools of Pangasi, Tarlac, Laguna, Nueva Ecija and Rizal. She graduated from the Far Eastern University Girls' High School. In 1944 she enrolled in the University of the Philippines School of Nursing. In 1945 she shifted to Arellano University where she attended the writing classes of Teodoro M. Locsin and edited the first number of the Arellano Literary Review. Her education was interrupted by illness, financial difficulties, and later marriage and the care of her five children. Some of her stories have been published under the pseudonym Patricia S. Torres. In 1949, she married Juan Capiendo Tuvera, a childhood friend and fellow writer, with whom she had 10 children. Between the years 1966 to 1986, her husband served as the Executive Secretary of then President Marcos. Her husband's work drew her into the charmed circle of the Marcoses. During the years of martial law, she founded and edited the officially approved FOCUS Magazine as well as the Evening Post newspaper. She taught in Albay High School and at Arellano University. She worked with Your Magazine, This Week and the Junior Red Cross Magazine. Her 1952 short story, The Virgin, won two first prizes the Free Press short story prize of Php1,000 and the Palanca Memorial Award. In 1957 she edited the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, a book containing English and Tagalog prize winning short stories from 1951 to 1952.[1] Her novel The Hand of the Enemy (1962) won the Stonehill Award of Php10,000 for the Filipino novel in English. Some of her famous short stories are : "A Place to Live In", "Gate", "The Keeper", "There's a Teenager in the House", "The Mats" and "The Sounds of Sunday". Adventures in a Forgotten Country is her latest collection of essays. She is the editor of Focus Philippines, the Orient News and the Evening Post. In 1968, she published Stories, a collection of eleven stories which she claimed a "thin harvest" for the twenty years she had been writing. In 1970, she wrote Imelda Romualdez Marcos, a Biography. That was the same year that she collected forty-two of her hard-hitting essays during her years as a staff writer of the Philippine Free Press and published them under the title Author's Circle. In 1976, she edited the four-volume Anthology of Don Palanca Memorial Award Winners. In 1977, she published another collection of thirty-five essays, Adventures in a Forgotten Country. In the late 1990s, the University of the Philippines Press republished all of her major works. Si Kerima Polotan-Tuvera ay isa sa mga kinilalang manunulat na Pilipino sa Ingles noong mga taong 1950 hanggang 1970. Nakasulat siya ng maraming mga sanaysay, maikling kuwento at nobela. Naging manunulat siya ng Manila Chronicle. Naging popular ang kanyang mga nobelang The Hand of the Enemy (1962); Stories, A Collection (1968); Imelda Romualdez-Marcos, a biography (1970). Ipinanganak siya sa Jolo, Sulu noong Disyembre 16, 1925. Nagtapos siya ng kursong Bachelor of Arts sa Arellano University

Ang mga maikling kuwentong ipinagwagi niya ng Gantimpalang Palanca ay The Virgins (1952); The Trap (1956); The Giants (1959); The Tourist (1960); The Sound of Sunday (1961); Various Seasons (1966). Summary The story focuses mainly on two people: Domingo and Emma. Rene Rividad is also a vital character but is only important during the latter part of the story. Domingo plays as the husband who has been led astray because of power and position. He wanted to be somebody so much that he gave up his family to be that somebody. Emma was portrayed as a typical wife who worries about her husband. So typical infact that she was like every wife who is submissive to her husband a wife who cannot go against his wishes. Instead of doing something about the immoral job her husband has , all she could do was just ask around. The In the end , although she did manage to go against Domingo is will ,she was still unable to escape his grasped and the past they shared. Yes , Emma wasnt under Domingo is arms anymore but she was still under his curse. The dilemma Emma faced while thinking her past , wishing it was not like that and desperately finding Domingo is warmth again were part of this curse. Although she was married , her character , the critic imagines , would be someone who has the fragility of a high school girl. The author probably made her to be the complete opposite of her husband who would act as a conscience while possessing a delicate but tormented life. Her femininity acted as a springboard to catapult the bitter characteristics of her husband and everyone around her there by amplifying their personalities even more. Then , her character was distorted to be more human than ever. Even a good person can be tainted by Theme Kerima Tuvera is story revolved around the concept of a failing marriage. It accentuated the fact that a deteriorating love in a couple exists and can take form in many ways. The story was about Domingo Gorrez who replaced his wife with his job. Although this was the case , the critic believes that this circumstance was just layering the portrayal of Domingo is already failing love towards his wife , Emma Gorrez. The fact was that he was leaning closer and closer to dropping his affection for his wife. And when he happened to get an immoral job , this gave him the reason to further go down and destroy his marriage. The story also showed that though the first party will let go the bonds in a marriage , the other party may not necessarily do the same thing , even if he/ she may be tempted to do so. Domingo is failing love and dwindling strength to maintain his marriage gave Emma lots of reasons to leave but these did not Live her the reasons to Conflict A conflict is sometimes described as the situation where the protagonist battles the antagonist. In The Sounds of Sunday , the conflict , a man versus man type, is twisted in a sense that it is manifested into a curious form. This is exhibited on the fact that though the story settles on a typical domestic dispute between the husband , Domingo and the antagonist and wife , Emma who is the protagonist and centers on the conventional abuses she gets from him , Emma does not entirely acknowledge this. Instead , she was trying to get closer to her husband and was ready to put his abuses behind them.

Instead of pulling away , she wanted to get closer to him even by means of leaving and hoping that he would miss her. That , if only her husband would submit to it. So basically the conflict exists but was molded