Puppy love
By:
Francisco Sionil Jose
The
story begins in reminiscing the memory of childhood when Gina and Jacobo become
friends and fell in love to each other. Jacobo and Gina fell in love to each
other but suddenly they separated because of war. Gina’s family goes to Manila
while Jacobo goes to his uncle in manila who work at ateneo, Jacobo work and
study at ateneo. The tome goes by Jake meet Carlos Cobell, an owner o law firms
and they become Avery close friend. He partner with Carlos and they strart a
closes bond. Jake given a chance to meet Gina and it hand when he goes to a bar
where Gina work at.” And, right in the middle in a green dress, was Gina
“(6).at this line Jake thought that the women that wherein a green dress is
Gina but he decide not to introduce himself to Gina since Gina didn’t recognize
him because of the big changes in physical appearance. But suddenly at the
second time they separated again to each other. After 10 years they are both married
but on the other persons. Jacobo married jenny and they are already have 3
child. While Gina already merited but she was unlucky to the guys he married because
she found that the guys that she married is unfaithful and is the reason why
she is imprisoned. while jenny red a new paper
Jake recognize the woman at the
women at the news paper and he definitely
went to Japan to show his concern to Gina
he offer a help to Gina, but Gina refuse what Jake offers. At the end of
the story Jacobo and Gina reminisce the past and Gina new that a man in front
of her is his childhood sweetheart. Life
is like a wheel sometimes youre on the top sometimes youre at the botton. .I like the way the author create a story he
use flash back in order to understand the reader what happen at the past.
The
story have two main character fist is Jacobo Salcedo and the second one is Gina
Garcia. Jacobo Salcedo is a man come from in the poor family but despite of his
problem he never give up on dreaming and he pursue his goal n life. He has a
good characteristic like intelligent, hard working, and humble that brings him
to the top and become successful. I like the characteristic of Jacobo because
he never gave up even though he is the only one who sustain has needs because
his parents died.
Gina Garcia-she belong at the very rich
family “ she was a tall ,if not slightly
taller. It must be a mestizo genes or their food. She had brownish and very fair
skin. Her eyes wee dark and pretty, her voice such as pleasure to listen to,
and even when he vexed she always sounded so pleasant and musical”(2) the author gave a good description about the
characteristic of Gina that’s why I like
this paragraph because I imagine the personality that Gina has. Gina was
unlucky to her life especially when she grow up, he married a unfaithful
husband that the reason why he is in the jail, she have a job but she ashamed
to work. Her life becomes miserable.
The setting of the story was
taken first at the old hometown of San Jacinto, it is the place where jacobo
and Gina born and grow up, it is also the place where the love story jacobo and Gina began. The
second one is in manila where the journey of jacobo start, he pursue his drams
and become a successful man .it is also the place where he found Gina and met her
wife jenny.
It was entitled puppy love
because it refers to falling in love at the very young age but it is not a true love. Even though Gina and
Jacob love each other they don’t end up on together because they got married
but in the different person. The author use first person so the one who is telling the
story is jacobo he narrate his puppy love experience. The story is
all about love,but its not a true love
it is only puppy love .The story also focus on waiting someone even you don’t
know that that one is really deserving. It also tackled about an innocent kind
of love and mistaking it for true love. I think the information that i read is
reliable since it is base on the true story and I can relate it means not only Gina
ad jacobo experience puppy love but also those people experience puppy love
like me i thought that the guy that fall in love with is the guy that I will
marry but it’s not he is only my puppy love not my true love. This story is
wonderful because it has only one point of view tats why I understand well
because if the story have different point of view it may cause of
misunderstanding between the reader and the story.
The theme of this story is
disregarding the social differences in term expressing true love.And nothing last forever even jacobo love Gina he ended up marrying another girl whom he didn't love
at first but soon, he learned to love him more.Until the time came that he completely forget about his feelings
to Gina and became faithful and loyal to Jenny.
