The story was great. It's very real, very dramatic,very Filipino! I said "real" because like Rosa, the protagonist in the story, we have our own trials and sufferings. Our parents, bosses and mentors often times, scold us like Rosa's amo. Everytime that Rosa will make a mistake without any words her amo will spank and beat her. Sometimes when we fall down we think that nobody will help us to rise agin but we're wrong because there's always somebody who will help us in a unexpected way.
One scenario in A Servant Girl, when Rosa was walking, holding a basin filled with washed clothes accidentally, fell down and got hurt suddenly, a cochero came to rescue her and from that day on, she didn't forget the face of that guy and starting dreaming as if the cochero is dreaming of her too.
Estrella Alfon has the power in making a pumpkin into a grand beautiful coach(like what the fairy god mother did for Cinderella). Alfon used a very common "servant" character and turned the story into a heartbreaking one. She shoed that there are mreally masters who can hit and hurt their servants but what we don't know is that we servants can hurt our self more, much from our masters. She made Rosa to show us; Rich or poor: Master or servant the right to dream, to love nad be loved no matter who or what we are. "A Servant Girl" captured my heart. I liked it on first reading but I loved it more on my second!
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