The short story "Footnote to Youth" by Jose Garcia Villa follows Dodong, a 17-year-old boy who is eager to marry his love Teang. However, when Dodong tells his father of his plan, his father questions if he is too young. Nine months later, Teang gives birth to their first son Blas, and Dodong realizes he has more responsibility than he anticipated. Over the next six years, Teang gives birth to seven children total, leaving her thin and worn out. The story explores the realities of young love and marriage, and suggests one should enjoy their youth before taking on adult responsibilities. When Dodong's son Blas also wants to marry young, Dodong hopes to spare
The short story "Footnote to Youth" by Jose Garcia Villa follows Dodong, a 17-year-old boy who is eager to marry his love Teang. However, when Dodong tells his father of his plan, his father questions if he is too young. Nine months later, Teang gives birth to their first son Blas, and Dodong realizes he has more responsibility than he anticipated. Over the next six years, Teang gives birth to seven children total, leaving her thin and worn out. The story explores the realities of young love and marriage, and suggests one should enjoy their youth before taking on adult responsibilities. When Dodong's son Blas also wants to marry young, Dodong hopes to spare
The short story "Footnote to Youth" by Jose Garcia Villa follows Dodong, a 17-year-old boy who is eager to marry his love Teang. However, when Dodong tells his father of his plan, his father questions if he is too young. Nine months later, Teang gives birth to their first son Blas, and Dodong realizes he has more responsibility than he anticipated. Over the next six years, Teang gives birth to seven children total, leaving her thin and worn out. The story explores the realities of young love and marriage, and suggests one should enjoy their youth before taking on adult responsibilities. When Dodong's son Blas also wants to marry young, Dodong hopes to spare
The short story "Footnote to Youth" by Jose Garcia Villa follows Dodong, a 17-year-old boy who is eager to marry his love Teang. However, when Dodong tells his father of his plan, his father questions if he is too young. Nine months later, Teang gives birth to their first son Blas, and Dodong realizes he has more responsibility than he anticipated. Over the next six years, Teang gives birth to seven children total, leaving her thin and worn out. The story explores the realities of young love and marriage, and suggests one should enjoy their youth before taking on adult responsibilities. When Dodong's son Blas also wants to marry young, Dodong hopes to spare
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A literary piece by
Jose Garcia Villa
Entitled:
Footnote to Youth
Who is Jose Garcia Villa?
He is a poet, a critic, a short story writer, and a painter. Jose Garcia Villla was born in Singalong, Manila, on 05 August 1908. His parents were Simeon Villa who is a personal physician of revolutionary General Emilio Aguinaldo, and Guia Garcia. He graduated from the UP High School in 1925 and enrolled in the premed course.
A short biography prepared by the Foreign Service
Institute said Villa was first interested in painting but turned to writing after reading Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio." Meanwhile, he devoted a good part of his time writing short stories and poems. Soon he started exerting his leadership among the UP writers. His ideas on literature were provocative. He stirred strong feelings. He was thought too individualistic. He published his series of erotic poems, "Man Songs" in 1929. It was too bold for the staid UP administrators, who summarily suspended Villa from the university. He was even fined P70 for "obscenity" by the Manila Court of First Instance.
List of his works
Short Story Philippine Short Stories (1929) best 25 stories of 1928 Footnote to Youth (1933)
Poems Many Voices (1939) Poems (1941) Have Come Am Here (1941) Selected Poems and New (1942) A Doveglion Book of Philippine Poetry (1962)
Footnote to Youth
Elements of Short Story
Setting Farm
Characters Dodong Teang Blas Tona
Point of View Third person (central)
Plot
Exposition Dodong was fully decided to marry Taeang and intended to tell it to his father
Plot
Complication Taeang regretted to be married at their early age.
Plot
Crises Dodong has a question that he cant answer Why life forsaken after love?
Plot
Climax When Blas was at his eighteen years of age, he asked permission to his father Dodong to marry Tona
Plot
Denouement Dodong was helpless. He couldnt do anything but to give his consent.
Plot
Ending Dodong was really feel sad and sorry for his son.
Summary Dudong is 17 year old young who is impatiently waiting for his father to return home so that he can tell him of his love for Teang and his desire to marry her. He feels that at 17 he is a grown man and is ready for the next important step in his life. When he tells his father that he has asked Teang to marry him and wants his blessing, there is a long and cruel silence. His father asks if he must marry her because Dudong is very young. Dudong resents his father's question, and finally his father gives his consent.
Nine months later, Dudong is waiting outside
while Teang gives birth to their first son, Blas. He feels young and inexperienced, a contrast to how he felt nine months ago. Dudong did not want any more children, but they came anyway. For the next six years, Teang gave birth. Seven children in all.
Teang did not complain. However her
body was now shapeless and thin from bearing so many children and from the hard work of caring for them and the household. Even though she loved Dudong, she cried and wished that she had not married so young.
There had been another suitor, Lucio,
who was nine years older than Dudong. She chose Dudong because he was so much younger. Lucio had married after she married Dudong, however, he was childless. She wonders if she had married Lucio, would she be childless? She feels that would have been a better lot in life. But she loves Dudong, even
One night Dudong goes outside and
thinks about his life. He wants to have the wisdom to know why life does not fulfill Youth's dreams. Why did life forsake you after love? He never finds the answer.
When Blas turns 18, he comes home
and tells Dudong that he wants to marry Tena. Dudong at this time is only 36 years old, but he is portrayed as a much older man. Dudong does not want Blas to marry so young.
He asks the same question his father asked
him. Does Blas have to marry Tena? He does not want him to make the same mistake he did. Blas also reacts with resentment. Dudong realizes that he is dealing with Youth and Love, and they will triumph over this situation. After that, comes real life. He gives his consent, feeling sad and sorry for his son.
Theme Enjoy being Youth Responsibilities and Realities; Decision Making
Evaluation Part
What is the full name of author of Footnote to
Youth? And give a little description about him.
Answer: Jose Garcia Villa is a poet, a critic, a short story writer, and a painter.
Name the main characters of the
literary piece
Answer: Dodong, Taeang and Blas
What is a footnote? Answer: A footnote is simply defined as a note at the foot of the page. It is often used to give additional information to the reader regarding certain words or phrases in the text
