The author (Francisco Sionil Jose) presents his
story by creating another persona, and it is in first Person's Point of view of
Jacobo, the leading man of the story. Puppy Love is a typical love of story of
young adolescence that "fall in love" in a very young age. This story
reflects the youth's ambition in love that they have experienced in the young
age. The setting of this story in Town of San Jacinto that it shows equality
because both poor and rich kids go to same public school.
The story is started by
describing the characters' profile, their family background, personalities, and
their physical and internal descriptions, which is a good factor in creating a
story because it gave initial information that can make the readers find hints
that can lead and make them to the flow of the story. The author featured
Jacobo as the central character. His character is a typical characters in every
story because of the tagline "from rugs to riches", he is a successful
rich lawyer but before he tasted the golden spoon, Jacobo's parents have
vices, he's father is into cockfighting and he's mother is into jueteng. The
author made Jacobo's life a symbolism to every people who strive hard for the
success despite of ungrateful experiences.
As the
story goes along, the author made the climax a very tragic one. It is when
Jacobo's parent died. This situation made the story more interesting because it
shows the other side of the characters which made the story more interesting
and it made a new door to open to another event because the Jacobo and Gina
separated their own way to fulfill each other's plan and dream.
Despite of a bad and tragic climax, the author made the falling action
as well as the denouement an excited scene because Jacobo's life in Manila
became exciting because she met who looks like his first love, Jenny, same as
Gina based on her physical statistics. In this case, Jacobo experienced again
the feeling of being in love but in another girl. But the author made a twist
that made Jacobo become separated again from his love one. This scene showed
that in our live there will be always a time that we thought we found the right
person but in the end, we just expected for nothing and this what author made
us to realize that finding the right person is hard because it needed time and
effort.
The author backed up the following events with a most-awaited
situation. The reunion of Jacobo and Gina, his first love symbolizes the
memories that happened in past can be cherish in the present. This scene will
made us realize that there's nothing wrong in having a reunion with your
ex-boyfriend or girlfriend but make sure that there will be a thick line in
each other's heart because moving in is really a must because in can make the
life good in the present and better in the future. The author secretly showed
to us that we should not be trapped in the past because there will be another
person, chances, situations, events, and memories that will be made and there
will be a time to leave the old ones in a time.
The author made the ending story with a
relieved one because it featured the
conversation
of two parties (Jacob and Gina) that parting ways and moving are the best
solution to manage their own families. Francisco Sionil made this story not
just to realize the worth of memories and how childhood love was memorable but
also that there will be a time that we are mature enough to know what love is
what moving is and what letting go is.
"Love will always find a
way" this quote may not be a the best to suite in the story but
little we did not know that love moves in mysterious ways in this story. From
the childhood memories, to separation, to meeting another person, to reunion,
and to meet again but chose to let go and move, the love really moved. The
author ultimately did this story to show to us how love break us, create us,
and change us in the other way or around. Puppy Love, a Palanca Awardee story
deserves both clap from every reader's hand, every generation's heart, and
every time to read this story.
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