Footnote to Youth: Psychoanalysis View

     

           Jose Garcia Villa wrote "Footnote to Youth" a short story as his masterpiece, leaving lessons and wisdom to readers before and up to now. He uses themes of enjoyment of being a youth, seeing realities & doing responsibilities. By those themes he was able to make the story unique from other short stories. The story implicates to compares the kind of society before and today, which is a real total opposite.

        It shows that society before are less numerous in terms of population, remote areas were lack of school and the people don't have the capacity to change the way they live and there were no knowledge they earn. In other words, he uses this short story piece to leave in the minds of the youth and also to adults that life can be change through a single change of the direction we take.

Nick Joaquins' Three Generation; Men Supremacy Over Women

          Nick Joaquin's short story entitled "Three Generations" focuses on many aspects of life. It can easily be understand that the story concentrates on the prospect of equality, sexuality, decision making, inheritance and culture. There are certain binary oppositions that appeared like man over woman, good and evil and past and present.

       In the first scene it appears that Celo Monzon or the older Monzon was evil and his wife Donia Sofia Monzon was good in this conversation.

Sofia:  "It is about Chitong. He does not want to continue                      the law course he is taking. The boy has a vocation,                      Celo. He wants to study for the prieshood."

Celo: "When did he speak to you?"

                                                     Sofia: "About a month ago."

                           

                                                     Celo: "Well, I would have never expected it of him."

     On the second scene when Celo Monzon went to the Dominican Church to visit his son Chitong, it clearly appeared that Celo Monzon was looking back back to his past. When he lived an unhappy childhood life under his parents care. He detested his father for beating him and his mother. Proving that men are more dominant than women.

FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH: A SENTENCE OUTLINE

TOPIC: “FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH”- By: Jose Garcia Villa
https://ischoolsericsonalieto.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/footnote-to-youth-jose-garcia-villa/

Mi Ultimo Adios; An Outlook

              Once a poor boy from Calamba, Laguna-now became the National Hero of our dear country-the Philippines. During his days, he studied here and abroad. Those experiences led him to become more suspicious. He learned many different languages and used it a s a tool for his aggression of claiming independence from the Spanish authorities.   
        

            For my own opinion of the poem “Mi Ultimo Adios” or MY LAST FAREWELL, Dr. Jose Rizal, his main objective was to challenge other Filipino people to resist. His death set as a sign for a bloody battle must now be done after he didn’t allow the Katipuneros before to start a bloody Revolution. Actually, I felt that he was writing the poem fearlessly and excellently for there were no erasures found and draft less. He was not afraid to die because even before he already offered his whole life and patriotism to "Inang Bayan"-our beloved country.

          It's weird to think of being happy even though you've already know the day you will be executed but his happiness serves and leaves hope for all Filipinos and his sorrow for our grievances.