Footnote to Youth by Jose Garcia Villa (Assessment)

What is the short story "Footnote to Youth" is all about?

Describe the characters in the short story.

If you are going to provide one adjective describing the setting of the story. What would it be and why?

What point of view was used in the story?

What made Dodong feel that he was no longer a boy but already a man?

What character is revealed by Dodong when he was got tickled by the worm, jerked his foot, flinging the worm into air yet never bothered to look at where it fell?

How did Taeng find married life?

When Dodong asked permission to get married, his father felt sorry for him. So did Dodong when Blas asked for permission to get married. They knew what life is hard after marriage, when do you think that they did not prevent their sons from experiencing those hardships that they’ve gone through?

What moral lesson can be realized from the short story?

Explain the line “Youth must triumph now. Love must triumph now. Afterwards, it will be life.”