REVIEW: The House on Zapote Street by Nick Quackin

The story starts in the character of Dr. Leonardo Quitangon, Lydia Cabading and her father, Pablo Cabiding. Dr. Leonardo had crush on lydia because of her quiet ways and then they began to date. Lydia's father was a policeman and he also overprotective father to her daughter. After the wedding, the father want her daughter and husband live together with them because they couldn't bear to be separated from their daughter. Leonardo found himself within a family turned in on itself, self-enclosed and self-sufficient in a house that his father in-law want to be the center of everything. So, Leonardo didn't take Lydia's father he decided to leave the house. One day, Leonardo went back to get lydia out of the house, and they successfully escaped from her father but Lydia's father never stop on separating them apart and everything went wrong when Lydia came back to her parents. Finally, the jealous father had ended  together with the life  of Leonardo and Lydia.

I was expecting the story to be interesting and logical. When I read the first sentences, the attitude of Pablo Cabiding the father of Lydia he becomes overprotective. The climax made me feel intense and I can't believe that her father can do that crime. The story I understand is that the father of the girl is so very overprotective to her daughter because we know he has a one and only daughter.  

I liked that the story to be tragical because the situation makes me feel very sad, especially it involves death and suffering. My favorite part in the story, the couple decided to move out and they have successfully made it and lived a simple and happy life like any other couple. I did not like when her father denied their freedom because of his selfishness. The story was sad, tragic, and it made me want to lament for them that the part where they got killed just shows what happens when you stay within. The story teaches us to be brave to face all the challenges and problems in life without a fear. If you settle yourself in fears you'll be lock in the hands of immoral people. You wouldn't aim your own freedom. I give the story four out of five. 

Rona Joy Tesipao, BA307, 2:30-3:30