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    "Footnote To Youth" by Jose Garcia Villa

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    The story "Footnote to Youth" is about a 17-year old boy named Dodong who insists on marrying his love, Teang, despite his father's advice that he is too young. Dodong and Teang marry and have children, including a son named Blas, but struggle with the difficulties of being young parents. Years later, Blas also insists at age 18 that he wants to marry, and Dodong is forced to allow it just as his own father had, feeling sad that his son will repeat the same mistakes. The story promotes the message that youth should think carefully before marrying young and seek advice from their parents instead of letting emotions control their decisions.

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    "Footnote To Youth" by Jose Garcia Villa

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    The story "Footnote to Youth" is about a 17-year old boy named Dodong who insists on marrying his love, Teang, despite his father's advice that he is too young. Dodong and Teang marry and have children, including a son named Blas, but struggle with the difficulties of being young parents. Years later, Blas also insists at age 18 that he wants to marry, and Dodong is forced to allow it just as his own father had, feeling sad that his son will repeat the same mistakes. The story promotes the message that youth should think carefully before marrying young and seek advice from their parents instead of letting emotions control their decisions.

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    The story "Footnote to Youth" is about a 17-year old boy named Dodong who insists on marrying his love, Teang, despite his father's advice that he is too young. Dodong and Teang marry and have children, including a son named Blas, but struggle with the difficulties of being young parents. Years later, Blas also insists at age 18 that he wants to marry, and Dodong is forced to allow it just as his own father had, feeling sad that his son will repeat the same mistakes. The story promotes the message that youth should think carefully before marrying young and seek advice from their parents instead of letting emotions control their decisions.

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    "Footnote To Youth" by Jose Garcia Villa

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    JENNY FAY S LIWAGON
    The story "Footnote to Youth" is about a 17-year old boy named Dodong who insists on marrying his love, Teang, despite his father's advice that he is too young. Dodong and Teang marry and have children, including a son named Blas, but struggle with the difficulties of being young parents. Years later, Blas also insists at age 18 that he wants to marry, and Dodong is forced to allow it just as his own father had, feeling sad that his son will repeat the same mistakes. The story promotes the message that youth should think carefully before marrying young and seek advice from their parents instead of letting emotions control their decisions.

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    “FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH” by Jose

    Garcia Villa
    The story Footnote to Youth was written by Jose Garcia Villa and was
    published during the year 1933 in the United States of America. Jose Garcia
    Villa was a Filipino poet, literary critic, painter, and lecturer. He has a pen
    name of “Doveglion” which came from “Dove, Eagle and Lion”. Villa was born
    on August 5, 1908, in Manila’s Singalong district. His parents were Simeon
    Villa and Guia Garcia. His father, Simeon worked as a personal physician of
    Emilio Aguinaldo. He used to study in University of the Philippines and later
    on went to University of New Mexico in USA. He was also given an award
    of Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Writing and was awarded the National
    Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973.

    “Footnote to Youth” is a Philippine literature that was published under the


    publishing company Charles Scribner’s Sons which is located in New York
    City. This book is about how a boy and a girl experienced what real life is at
    an early age because of their naiveness and stubbornness. They followed
    their heart and did what they thought was right which is to marry at an age of
    17 and had a children of their own. Because of this, they have encountered
    hardships in making their lives stable. And just like how history repeats itself,
    their son also had the same situation as them. It presents the value of being
    hard-working as how the father of the main character was described and also
    the main character as well.

    The story is about a 17-year old boy named Dodong wanted to marry the love
    of his life, Teang. Dodong told his father about the decision that they have
    made and was asked if he should really marry. His father told him that he was
    too young to marry but he insisted on it. Dodong was really eager of how he
    wanted to marry Teang get the consent of his father and immediately got it.
    Later on, they had some children and one was named as Blas. They have
    both experienced and realized how hard it is to be a parent and live a real life.
    Teang, on the other hand, wondered what will happen if she had not married
    Dodong and married her other suitor in the past instead. But she remembered
    the reason why she had married Dodong, whom made life ugly, was because
    she loved him. Dodong had lots of questions in his mind about why such
    things happen to him. Then when Blas turned eighteen, he told his father that
    he wanted to marry some girl. It was just like how things happened in the past.
    He also said to Blas about the same thing that his own father told him before.
    He couldn’t do anything but to allow Blas on what he wanted to do. In the end,
    Dodong felt very sad and sorry for his son.

    What I liked about the book is that it gives some reminders that the youth,
    particularly teenagers nowadays, must think thoroughly and wisely first on
    what they are about to do. They must not let their hearts take over their minds
    because it might put them in misery and suffering when time comes. They
    must also seek some advices from their parents because they know what’s
    better for them than anyone else. While the thing that I didn’t like about the
    book is the part where Dodong let his son repeat the same mistake that he
    had done before. I would recommend this book mostly to the youth because
    the message of this story will teach them important values in life that might
    save them from living a life that they wouldn’t want to have. I would also
    recommend this book to the parents so that they might have more ideas on
    how they should guide their children and prevent them from having the kind of
    situation that Dodong has in the story. All in all, I would rate this book 10 out
    of 10 because it gives meaningful values that could improve one’s wisdom
    especially to adolescents these days.

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