Narratology Theory Analysis

NARRATOLOGY

Footnote To Youth

By Jose Garcia Villa

Synopsis:

Dodong wanted to marry Teang and asked his father’s permission. Thinking that since they are young, their love would be short, he allowed them to get married. After nine months, Teang gave birth to a child named Blas. For six consecutive years, a new child came along. Teang did not complain even thought she secretly regretted being married at an early age. Sometimes she even wondered if she would have the same life if Lucio, her other suitor who was nine years older than Dodong, was the one she married. Lucio has had no children since the time he married. When Teang and Dodong were twenty they looked like they were fifty. When Blas was 18, he told his father that he would marry Tona. Dodong did not object, but tried to make Blas think twice before rushing to marriage - because Dodong doesn’t want Blas to end up like him.

Analysis:

The short story is in the narratology literary theory because the story is narrated in the third person point of view using the sequential order. the story started and ended on what happens from the father of Dodong, to Dodong who's asking a permission ro his father and from his son who also asked the same permission to his father Dodong. this story shows that the three fathers committed and continuously doing the same decision but ended regretting it.