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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 pre-med
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."
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.
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