GROUP 4

SUBJECT: 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH
BY: JOSE GARCIA VILLA
JOSE GARCIA VILLA (August 5,
1908-February 7,1997)
• He was a Filipino poet, literary
critic, short story writer and
painter.
• He is known to have
introduced the “reversed
consonance scheme” in writing
poetry, as well as the extensive
use of punctuation marks.
• He was known as “Doveglion”
(Dove, Eagle,Lion)
FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH (1933)
It was a story of a boy named Dodong who was
only 17 years of age when he decided to marry Teang
without thinking of the risk being in an uneasy part of
life.
After of several months of living they had a child.
Teang realized how hard being a young parent is. She
started having regrets in marrying Dodong and imagined
what her life would be if she married another suitor.
Their son, who is now 17 plans to get married. He
told his parents of his plans. Dodong explained to him
how hard and risky it is to marry at such a young age.
But like Dodong before, his son also wants to pursue
what he wants.
FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH
• The story serves as a brief reminder to the
Filipino youth of what a real life could be
today
• Indicates why the youth act this way
• It gives a warning for those apathetic youth
that ones committed mistake because of their
stubbornness
• The setting has a great impact because the
story definitely empathizes the situations of a
Filipino person and it is appealing for us
because we are at the poverty line
• Belongs to the AMERICAN COLONIZATION
PERIOD
FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH LINKS:
• https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&bih=657&tb
m=isch&sa=1&ei=HEMKXcVbofaHA5r0nYgI&q=literature+
background+&oq=literature+background+&gs_l=img.3..3
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• https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/jose-garcia-villa/
• http://rizatormis.blogspot.com/2013/10/footnote-to-
youth.html?m=1
 DUHIRAW
BY: NOEL TUAZON
NOEL TUAZON
• Everything started by reading.
The good professor started his writing prowess the
moment he started reading. He said that in every
good book he read, he always aspire to write
something about it or write something that is
better than that book.
•Palanca Awards
He won two first prizes and three third prizes in
Palanca Awards. He brought home for the first time
the first prize in 2012 in his “Duhiraw”
•The Metaphor
When asked what is his life’s metaphor Sir Tuazon
answered “Kung metaphor ko, I am a rain, I like
being sad than being happy. In fact, in that I can
write everything because in sadness I can write
happy stories, in my smile you can feel my
sadness…”
• The Imprint
Before we parted, Sir Tuazon left these
words “Read, read, read. By reading you
are imagining, by simply imagining you are
creating your own world and by creating
your own world you can change what is
going on in your own society or what is
going on in your world…Reading is the very
birthplace of writing.”
ANALYSIS OF THE STORY
The story is written in the first
person point of view of the professor but if
we take a closer look at the story, it talks
about the unrevealed life of a problematic
student who doesn’t go to school and one
who uses a different strategy to get her
grades in college higher.
 Also, it talks about the perspective
of the professor who was torn apart with the
responsibilities of a teacher who has norms
and standards in the classroom and his
blazing attraction to his student in part
because of what the student is doing, texting
him things a normal student wouldn’t text a
teacher.
GILDA CORDERO-FERNANDO (June 4, 1932-
)
• She is a writer and publisher and
has a Bachelor in Arts from St.
Theresa’s College-Manila and a
Masteral in Arts from the Ateneo de
Manila University
• She has two collections of short
stories: The Butcher, The Baker and
The Candlestick Maker (1962) and A
Wilderness of Sweets (1973).
LUNDAGIN MO BABY
BY: GILDA CORDERO