Critique Paper of Puppy love by Francisco Sionil Jose

Puppy love by Francisco Sionil Jose. The author Francisco is best known for his epic work. The story talked about an innocent kind of love and mistaking it for true love. The story started that there was this village boy who fell in love with the daughter of the richest man in town, and the boy fell inlove with the girl at an early age so it is called puppy love.

Then,the war came and they were separated the boy's most lasting memory was that morning they went to their rice bodega to play. There was a big rattan basket where the grain was stored. They climbed into it. The girl was reading Wuthering Heights and eating an apple, the boy was very poor he had never tasted an apple before.

The story ended that the boy and the girl are still inlove with each other even tho they are been seperated for years and not seeing each other. But the love lasted because the boy got married to another girl so all the love of the boy is now into his wife. The story puppy love was an unique story for me. It taught me that, there is no lasting love.

Jacobo Salcedo a.k.a Jake is an a successful and rich lawyer but  came from a poor family . He is inspired and motivated to be sucessful to fulfill his dreams and goals in life so that he could have a better life.
Gina Garcia was a mestiza, she’s fluent in speaking Spanish, and loves to read novels and her favorite is Wuthering Heights. Gina came from a rich family who owns a big hacienda in San Jacinto but lost their wealth due to war.

The two characters are the one who is inlove with each other in an early age and early stage. And they called it puppy love because it refers to falling in love at a very young age, the feeling was there for a long time but it wasn't  true love after all.

The author Francisco Sionil Jose wrote puppy love so that the readers would learn some lesson about the story and to know the real meaning of puppy love. The settings in the stroy is in the twon of San Jacinto where Gina and Jake grow and met.

The setting changed the behavior of the character, like Jake Salcedo when he moved in the city of Manila, when he moved in the city, he was inspired to be a better and a ricch person. He finished his studies there and became a lawyer.

It gets told by narrating the detailed story of puppy love and I can easily identify who are the characters, the setting, the climax and the lesson that is being told also. I can identify it by reading and understading the story, well the story is can be easily understood by who is reading it. It  is a simple yet unique story I’ve read. The author Francisco Jose worte a story that everyone can relate to because it is all about love. And everyone in the world has love.

The information that the narrator is giving me is really helping me to understand more the story being read. The narrator detailed the important happenings in the story. I can easily understand it well.  

The informations revealed in the story are its settings, characters, plot, climax, and the lesson its teaching and telling me and the readers also. One lesson I got is that never miss any chances in life. Because chances are not unlimited.

The one telling the story is the narrator or it can be the one who is reading the story. The speaker itself can relate to the story.

The purpose of the title puppy love is having a love in an early age or being inlove in an early stage but the feelings lasted but its not true love. Title itself decribes the summary of the story

The title is being related to the story because simply, it is all about love.
An image symbolizes the story while im reading it is an image of the clock that is 12am in the morning. Meaning that its too early, its too early for everything especially its too early being inlove.
The story is very easy to understand because it has no deep words and other languages that  I dont understand, only english language is being used in the story. Maybe it has no deep words but the story has a very deeper meaning and it can give me and the readers some lessons not only in love but in life also. It is teaching me to strive harder in life so that I could my goals and dreams in the future. And it also teach me not to waste any chances in life, because chances only comes once in our lives.

The story puppy love is a clear point that has a meaning of having love in an early age and early stage in life, the love lasted but its not true love. The story isnt hard to discover its true meaning because the title speaks already itself.

The author Francisco Sionil Jose is telling us to read his work puppy love because in this story we can actually relate into it and it has many lessons in life that we can apply it on ourselves. The story can also give us motivation and inspiration in life. The author wrote this story to know the difference of puppy love and having true love.

I was surprised in the scene where Jake saw Gina in a bar as a hostess but still Jake didnt take advantage to her even tho Jake still love Gina that time.