Jose Garcia Villa’s Footnote to Youth: Education Towards Brighter Future

Jose Garcia Villa’s Footnote to Youth is a short story all about early marriage and education to us as youth of this society. Also for the future and present parents. Jose wanted to teach the young societies in way of writing this short story entitled “Footnote to Youth”, he wrote this short story to warn the youngster society that early marriage is very tough responsibility.

       On the Footnote to Youth story, there’s a young man named Dodong live in a poor village/society and a son of a farmer only; and at the age of seventeen he wanted to marry the girl named Teang. In their village they can’t afford schooling or education during the American period here in country. 

Early marriage of Dodong and Teang was very toughly after they had a children, a TEN children. That because they are both haven’t a stable job in their village/society. Dodong has no knowledge about other better jobs because they are poor and didn’t think before for he’s future after he married at the age seventeen.

Because of his lack of education for the poor people before, Dodong and Teang was not able to give a proper and better education for their childs. So that the older son of Dodong said he wanted to marry at the age of eighteen. But Dodong can’t refused his son wants. Because Dodong did it before and he regret all mistakes he does it before.

So that, a young man we need to be patient of what we gonna and wanna want to do. Think first if it is a good or a bad decision to be able for us a successful in our future life. Jose wanted to spread the idea that early marriage in not the key of a happy family and education is the key.