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DESCRIPTION OF THE Footnote to youth The short story become a footnote to youth because it is about on how the youth followed the steps of their parents like getting in an early married. It was entitled as footnote to youth because the child of the main character in the story followed their footsteps. Thats why the author reflect their life to the title of the story.

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BACKGROUND OF THE AUTHOR Jose Garcia Villa (August 5, 1908 February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973 as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. He is known to have introduced the "reversed consonance rime scheme" in writing poetry, as well as the extensive use of punctuation marksespecially commas, which made him known as the Comma Poet. He used the penname Doveglion (derived from "Dove, Eagle, Lion"), based on the characters he derived from himself. These animals were also explored by another poet e.e. cummings in Doveglion, Adventures in Value, a poem dedicated to Villa. Villa was born on August 5, 1908, in Manila's Singalong district. His parents were Simeon Villa (a personal physician of Emilio Aguinaldo, the founding President of the First Philippine Republic) and Guia Garcia (a wealthy landowner).He graduated from the University of the Philippines Integrated School and the University of the Philippines High School in 1925. Villa enrolled on a Pre-Medical course in the University of the Philippines, but then switched to Pre-Law course.

However, he realized that his true passion was in the arts. Villa first tried painting, but then turned into creative writing after reading Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson. Writing career Villa's tart poetic style was considered too aggressive at that time. In 1929 he published Man Songs, a series of erotic poems, which the administrators in UP found too bold and was even fined Philippine peso for obscenity by the Manila Court of First Instance. In that same year, Villa won Best Story of the Year from Philippine Free Press magazine for Mir-I-Nisa. He enrolled at the University of New Mexico, wherein he was one of the founders of Clay, a mimeograph literary magazine.He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and pursued post-graduate work at Columbia University.Villa had gradually caught the attention of the country's literary circles, one of the few Asians to do so at that time. Villa worked as an associate editor for New Directions Publishing in New York City between 1949 to 1951, and then became director of poetry workshop at City College of New York from 1952 to 1960. Death On February 5, 1997, at the age of 88, Jose was found in a coma in his New York apartment and was rushed to St. Vincent Hospital in the Greenwich area. His death two days later was attributed to "cerebral stroke and multilobar pneumonia". He was buried on February 10 in St. John's Cemetery in New York, wearing a Barong Tagalog.

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ANALYSIS

Character : Dodong a boy who was only 17 when he decides to marry his love one. Teang regretted marrying at an early age Blas Dodong and Teangs oldest son who followed their footsteps in the end. Blas contemplated to marry Tona when he was 18. Tona woman whom Blas wants to marry Lucio Teangs other suitor who got married after she did and whos childless until now.

SETTINGS: The sun was salmon and hazy in the west,it was in the yard of their province. CONFLICT: Dodong and Teangs get in a relationship with the permission of their parents but otherwise it becomes hard to them, because of the early marriage their undergoes and the situation of being not ready to enter in unconditional life. THEME: It was good enough to the youth to read the story and what is it all about. To get an idea on how hard to enter in an early relationship.

Plot of the story : It was a story of a boy who was only 17 when he decides to marry his love one. He was dodong, and he love teang so much that he could not wait for the right age to settle down in a relationship that is hard to escape. It's the "marriage". At the age of 17 dodong and teang got married without thinking of the risk being in an uneasy part of life. They just follow what they feel. They don't think what would happen in their future. They got a child. Teang realized how hard being a young parent. Her regret of she had done and think, what would be my life if i marry my other suitors instead of dodong? Can I have the same life as of now? She regrets so much of!!

Until one day, when their son grow. He follows the footsteps of his parents. He wants to marry also at the age of 17. He told his parents what his plans. Dodong have nothing to do but explain how hard and how risky to be in "marriage "at the young age.. But like dodong before, his son also wants to pursue what he wants.

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Criticism: Dodong and Teangs realized how hard being a young parent.They just follow what they feel, without thingking what would happen in their future. At the age of 17 they got married and they do not think the risk of being in an uneasy part of life.They do not wait for the right age to settle down in a relatiobship that is hard to escape. BLAS and TONA did not think wise on how hard to have a family and get in an early relationsip, but Blas he is brave enough because he stand his decision to marry his love one Tona yet he is still young at his age.

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Values learned: What philosophy of life can you develop? The values learned from this story is that marriage can wait the right time, if we want to be in this stage of life, we must prepare ourselves against the risk of it. I know we can all be in to it if we like too but not at the young age. The wonderful short story that are intended to the youth or must be in our generation, tells the reality, that we have a power to make a decision but to help ourselves personally it is better to think wise and open our mind in order to have intelligent decisions in our life. The philosophy of life that I can develop as IF YOU WANT TO FALL FOR SOMEONE BE WISE THAT HE/SHE FELL THAT LOVING IS THE BEST DEISION NOT A MISTAKE