Review on the Story

The Dog Eater is a short story written by Leonardo P. Deriada that gives the reader possible
events in a marriage life. The Dog Eater foretells a story of a couple in a hassle, who are
imprisoned in their forced marriage. Deriada`s Dog Eater, which have touch millions of readers,
won third prize in Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Story. paper will analyze the Dog
Eater using a Moralistic Approach to evaluate the different ethical issues being shown and
different lessons it could provide. In using a moralistic approach to scrutinize the short story
Dog Eater, the critics will dispose two moral issues present in the story; the early marriage at
the early age and the slaughtering of dog for dog meat, and also the critics will reveal the moral
lesson the author wants to impart. According to social law, marriage is rightful only if in the
right age or if both people willing to marry have a stable life. In a moralistic approach, using the
view of the social law, critics could say that the marriage of Victor and Mariana resulted to
scrape.

Early marriage at the early age because of pregnancy, though some accepted it, would still be
considered as an issue especially today that practical needs of a family are unreachable. In the
story, the author then wants the reader to apprehend what consequence of having early
marriage at the early age could give. In a moralistic approach, the critics could consider those
people, who killed a dog for dog meat, murderers. Deriada, the author of the Dog Eater, wrote
the story not just to tell a story but rather to impart a lesson.

The Dog Eater Story dispose a lot of social and biblical issues that are presently rampant in the
society. It is evident in the story that the couple created a lot of wrong decision; firstly, when
Victor and Mariana stop attending school and marry each other without proper orientation to
marriage life which leads them to an atrocious relationship as spouse, secondly, when Mariana
decides to abort their second child which ending up a skirmish between the two of them, and
lastly when Mariana unconsciously killed their own dog Ramir. The Dog Eater is a short story of
Leonardo P. In this paper, the critics who used Moralistic Approach, which seek only the
content and values of a literary piece, have deciphered two ethical issues present in the society
and a lesson that a lot of people could consider.

Also, the critics implied that the killing of animals is just like killing a human, taking one`s life is
biblically not accepted.