Reaction to Max Schulman's 'Love Is a Fallacy'

“Wow!” I could give twp thumbs up to the story of Max Schulman, “Love is A Fallacy”. Actually the love story happens to be a love triangle. It was so exciting because its sequence is unexpected. The girl in the story, Polly Espy, love the other guy, Petey Blellows, just because of the raccoon coat the Petey was wearing. In their place, if you wear a raccoon coat, you could be considered one of the big men of the campus.

The story was not just any ordinary love story. You never know what will happen next if you will not read it trough. The author in the story was too boastful. He thinks he knew a lot of things. Well actually, he was a law student. But not all law students know everything, not even one. As I went on to the story, I discovered so many fallacies that the boy gave to the girl. I never knew how to analyze these fallacies too. The girl was beautiful, graceful but not logical or intelligent. The boy believes he can make her smart and make her useful when they someday get married. So he taught her about fallacies. After a week, the girl learned her lessons. The boy was amazed. The proof of the boy’s boastfulness is found at the last quarter of the story where he had given fallacies to the girl. The girl knew these and the boy believed that the girl her lessons- too much already. He cannot answer the girl right because the girl was so analytic and maybe smarter than him.

He became very disappointed when he knew that the girl was in love with Petey. After all the dates he set and lessons about fallacies and logic he gave to the girl, Polly was still in love with Petey. If you wonder why, you would be surprised of her unexpected answer. She answered that he was in love with Petey because of the raccoon coat that he was wearing. I found out that the raccoon coat was useless at the first half of the story. So did the author. I think that he should have never given the raccoon coat to Petey. Well, we never knew what will happen in the future. The author was unlucky. He lost his raccoon coat, and he lost his sweet, beautiful, graceful, and had used her intelligence recently, one of a kind Polly Espy. Petey made the right choice, he choose the raccoon coat exchange for the girl. But since Petey and Polly were destined for each whatever the author does, Petey got the raccoon coat and Polly Espy.

I learned many things in the story. We should never be boastful. We should put our feet on the ground. We should not judge other people. We do not know their abilities. Maybe, they never show it to other people. And last, we should not take things for granted. They maybe useless now but they are going to be very useful in the future.

“Yeah! Two thumbs up.”


“Wow!” I could give twp thumbs up to the story of Max Schulman, “Love is A Fallacy”. Actually the love story happens to be a love triangle. It was so exciting because its sequence is unexpected. The girl in the story, Polly Espy, love the other guy, Petey Blellows, just because of the raccoon coat the Petey was wearing. In their place, if you wear a raccoon coat, you could be considered one of the big men of the campus.

The story was not just any ordinary love story. You never know what will happen next if you will not read it trough. The author in the story was too boastful. He thinks he knew a lot of things. Well actually, he was a law student. But not all law students know everything, not even one. As I went on to the story, I discovered so many fallacies that the boy gave to the girl. I never knew how to analyze these fallacies too. The girl was beautiful, graceful but not logical or intelligent. The boy believes he can make her smart and make her useful when they someday get married. So he taught her about fallacies. After a week, the girl learned her lessons. The boy was amazed. The proof of the boy’s boastfulness is found at the last quarter of the story where he had given fallacies to the girl. The girl knew these and the boy believed that the girl her lessons- too much already. He cannot answer the girl right because the girl was so analytic and maybe smarter than him.

He became very disappointed when he knew that the girl was in love with Petey. After all the dates he set and lessons about fallacies and logic he gave to the girl, Polly was still in love with Petey. If you wonder why, you would be surprised of her unexpected answer. She answered that he was in love with Petey because of the raccoon coat that he was wearing. I found out that the raccoon coat was useless at the first half of the story. So did the author. I think that he should have never given the raccoon coat to Petey. Well, we never knew what will happen in the future. The author was unlucky. He lost his raccoon coat, and he lost his sweet, beautiful, graceful, and had used her intelligence recently, one of a kind Polly Espy. Petey made the right choice, he choose the raccoon coat exchange for the girl. But since Petey and Polly were destined for each whatever the author does, Petey got the raccoon coat and Polly Espy.

I learned many things in the story. We should never be boastful. We should put our feet on the ground. We should not judge other people. We do not know their abilities. Maybe, they never show it to other people. And last, we should not take things for granted. They maybe useless now but they are going to be very useful in the future.

“Yeah! Two thumbs up.”


“Wow!” I could give twp thumbs up to the story of Max Schulman, “Love is A Fallacy”. Actually the love story happens to be a love triangle. It was so exciting because its sequence is unexpected. The girl in the story, Polly Espy, love the other guy, Petey Blellows, just because of the raccoon coat the Petey was wearing. In their place, if you wear a raccoon coat, you could be considered one of the big men of the campus.

The story was not just any ordinary love story. You never know what will happen next if you will not read it trough. The author in the story was too boastful. He thinks he knew a lot of things. Well actually, he was a law student. But not all law students know everything, not even one. As I went on to the story, I discovered so many fallacies that the boy gave to the girl. I never knew how to analyze these fallacies too. The girl was beautiful, graceful but not logical or intelligent. The boy believes he can make her smart and make her useful when they someday get married. So he taught her about fallacies. After a week, the girl learned her lessons. The boy was amazed. The proof of the boy’s boastfulness is found at the last quarter of the story where he had given fallacies to the girl. The girl knew these and the boy believed that the girl her lessons- too much already. He cannot answer the girl right because the girl was so analytic and maybe smarter than him.

He became very disappointed when he knew that the girl was in love with Petey. After all the dates he set and lessons about fallacies and logic he gave to the girl, Polly was still in love with Petey. If you wonder why, you would be surprised of her unexpected answer. She answered that he was in love with Petey because of the raccoon coat that he was wearing. I found out that the raccoon coat was useless at the first half of the story. So did the author. I think that he should have never given the raccoon coat to Petey. Well, we never knew what will happen in the future. The author was unlucky. He lost his raccoon coat, and he lost his sweet, beautiful, graceful, and had used her intelligence recently, one of a kind Polly Espy. Petey made the right choice, he choose the raccoon coat exchange for the girl. But since Petey and Polly were destined for each whatever the author does, Petey got the raccoon coat and Polly Espy.

I learned many things in the story. We should never be boastful. We should put our feet on the ground. We should not judge other people. We do not know their abilities. Maybe, they never show it to other people. And last, we should not take things for granted. They maybe useless now but they are going to be very useful in the future.

“Yeah! Two thumbs up.”


“Wow!” I could give twp thumbs up to the story of Max Schulman, “Love is A Fallacy”. Actually the love story happens to be a love triangle. It was so exciting because its sequence is unexpected. The girl in the story, Polly Espy, love the other guy, Petey Blellows, just because of the raccoon coat the Petey was wearing. In their place, if you wear a raccoon coat, you could be considered one of the big men of the campus.

The story was not just any ordinary love story. You never know what will happen next if you will not read it trough. The author in the story was too boastful. He thinks he knew a lot of things. Well actually, he was a law student. But not all law students know everything, not even one. As I went on to the story, I discovered so many fallacies that the boy gave to the girl. I never knew how to analyze these fallacies too. The girl was beautiful, graceful but not logical or intelligent. The boy believes he can make her smart and make her useful when they someday get married. So he taught her about fallacies. After a week, the girl learned her lessons. The boy was amazed. The proof of the boy’s boastfulness is found at the last quarter of the story where he had given fallacies to the girl. The girl knew these and the boy believed that the girl her lessons- too much already. He cannot answer the girl right because the girl was so analytic and maybe smarter than him.

He became very disappointed when he knew that the girl was in love with Petey. After all the dates he set and lessons about fallacies and logic he gave to the girl, Polly was still in love with Petey. If you wonder why, you would be surprised of her unexpected answer. She answered that he was in love with Petey because of the raccoon coat that he was wearing. I found out that the raccoon coat was useless at the first half of the story. So did the author. I think that he should have never given the raccoon coat to Petey. Well, we never knew what will happen in the future. The author was unlucky. He lost his raccoon coat, and he lost his sweet, beautiful, graceful, and had used her intelligence recently, one of a kind Polly Espy. Petey made the right choice, he choose the raccoon coat exchange for the girl. But since Petey and Polly were destined for each whatever the author does, Petey got the raccoon coat and Polly Espy.

I learned many things in the story. We should never be boastful. We should put our feet on the ground. We should not judge other people. We do not know their abilities. Maybe, they never show it to other people. And last, we should not take things for granted. They maybe useless now but they are going to be very useful in the future.

“Yeah! Two thumbs up.”

"A Summary to Max Schulman's "Love Is a Fallacy""

There was once a genius law student. He wanted to marry a beautiful, graceful, and intelligent girl. He has a friend named Petey bellows. Petey always wanted to wear a raccoon coat because this is what the big men are wearing in the school. The law student knew that Petey had a girl, Polly espy. Beautiful, graceful, but not intelligent was she. He believes that he can make her smart if they already have a relationship. He gave the raccoon coat to petey but with one condition, to give up Petey’s girl. Petey had a hard time choosing and thinking. At last, he accepted the deal.

The law student had his first date with Polly. He had hard time because it is hard for him to be with a girl that does not use her logic. He decided to teach Polly. A week had passed and Polly already learn her lessons- but it was too much! The girl debated each word of the boy said false. Then it went to a time that the boy asked the girl if whom does she love, him or Petey. The girl answered Petey because Petey has a raccoon coat. The boy then was disappointed.

What a U.P Staudent Is Not

Politicians, businessman, architects, lawyers and teacher- these and more are products of the University of the Philippines education system. But how did they make their dreams come true? How did these stars twinkle among other stars? How did they pass the challenges and obstacles that the school gives? How did they passed the University of the Philippines and graduated? Supposing they never sleep at night for the sake of studying. I think no. I think they are really UP students. They follow rules and regulations. They pass assignments on time, come to school on time, and answer the test honestly and on time. They surpass a lot of challenges and obstacles because they trust and always believing on their selves. They believe they can pass trials and challenges because they know they can achieve it. They never cheated.
Cheating makes your life miserable in the present. But in the future, they would be a double problem for you. This is why they graduate and made their selves shine among others.

What is not a UP learner? There are many things that compose a UP student a NOT. The UP student was made to represent a pure and loyal UP student. But the students of UP made this sentence false.

Most UP students believe so much to their selves. They forgot that no person has wings. They become so boastful to other schools. They are very confident that they never study once they got home or never listens to the teacher once they are in school. A UP student is not a king or a queen. He or she is an ordinary person who has a high intellect. He or she would have a high intellect if he studies his or her notes and listens to the lessons discussed by the professor. He or she must think they are wise and intelligent but he or she must remember that he or she must have something to discover. A UP student is not a coward. He or she must try to learn new things by discovering it in many ways: communicating, experimenting, and reasoning. A non - UP students does not know how to talk in front of the class. Never listens in class, does not know how to experiment new things. They never knew how and when to use their senses. He or she never uses his or her gift, his or her talents, and his or her intelligence. A non- UP student cannot make the right choice, the right thing, and the right way. He or she cannot solve the problems and the trials destined for him or her. A non- UP student is dependent and never free. A non- UP student cannot follow rules, signs, instructions, and directions. A non- UP student makes the spirit of the UP oblation extinct in his or her heart.. all said and many more make a UP student not.

We came from different school. We came from poor families. We are now studying in the University of the Philippines because we are destined to be here. We should act as one. We should be responsible and independent. This is trough freedom. Freedom exists if we make our minds as wide as the ocean and learn from the forces of nature. We must make the spirit of the UP oblation alive. We must spread our wings but keep our feet in the ground. We must believe that we can, we are a UP student. Then be it.

Know You School Day

Know Your School Day

There is a period in our school where we spend the KYSD or the Know Your School Nellas. This is a way of giving gratitude to our teachers. After all their hard work done just for the sake to teach the ‘iskolar ng bayan’, we gave them a period of rest and let them enjoy the show. There is another objective of the Know Your School Day- it is to unmask the student’s abilities in teaching. Those who were willing were given a chance to teach in front of the class. And true, a lot applied for the position as part of the faculty.

During the opening ceremony, the student teachers were represented with a key. This is the key of knowledge. We all have knowledge. It is a gift. Let us make use of it.

The bell rang and the class started. In our class schedule, the first subject was Health. The student teacher in our class was Faith Janielou Vilo. She gave a very detailed explanation about her assigned topic. The teacher, Sir Nellas, was impressed. We all applaued for her excellent teaching, The next subject has social science, represented by English Homicillo ang Christlyn Pielago, we have class contest. Everything seems funnier than madam Legarta’s discussion. Then the next hour was spent the English subject. The lesson was presented by Daphne Gayas, Suzzaine Kasayan ang Kristie mahem Auxilio. There were also able to give a good discussion. We are given a test next day. Although not perfect, most of us passed and Nneka Lim came in and presented the math lesson. After the test, most of us got a good score. Geometry was presented by katima Aiza Juera and Ronald Baldo. There are good student teachers too. The next day, our first ubject was Science A and biology. Our teacher were Stacy Kay Fortuna and Jamaica Englis, hacie de Eric and nympha Rose de La Torren. For the two hours of exploring the human organs,some misunderstandings happened in the class, but we had handed it and yeah, they were good teachers too. As the closing ceremony took place in the afternoon. Many students got recognition for unmaking theirselves to their classmates. I could say “wow”. Most teachers got happy to their students. They were proud being teachers. They were proud they made products-good products. They made the iskolar ng Bayan into good shape.

We thank our teachers. They may teach in different ways – some are fast, some are slow., They may have different kinds of teaching but they only have one goal, to make the students among the rest. We must accept them. They are our second parents in school. We don’t need to be teachers to give them gratitude. All we need to do is to listen their word, answer their question, or ask about their lessons, show your appetite to the lessons that the teacher gave. And be courteous to them. Let us give respect to the teachers. We never jnow but someday, when we grow up, we will really thank them.

...And How About the Kids?

Family problems, peer influence, wars, pollution, crimes and money are some of the contributing factors that children are facing that leads them to a bleak future. And as these disturbances in our home, earth, continues, children’s health. Education, security and lives are disturbed.

Life is a game is what they say. You make the best of it as you frolic with life. But most of the people do not actually comprehend what does sentences mean. For them, it means having what they want, doing what they love and commanding whenever, whatever and wherever they need just for the sake of leisure amusement, interest, fun or what they call “ the best of life” they do not think about the consequences of their action. They do not think twice on who will be affected.

And how about the kids? They are prone to follow the disgraceful movements of the people around them due to their delicate minds. Most people around the society bring bad influence to the children. Take a look around… people smoking, using wicked or bad words, hurting people, drinking heavy alcohols, disobedient to the laws, killing fellowmen, stealing what is not theirs, loitering here and there and vandalizing the walls. Haven’t these people paused for a while to reflect on what they have done? When will they realize that what they are doing is slowly killing the dignity and the true meaning of man? When will they bring to an end ?… when the youngster set forth and does what they do?

I guess for some it is okay that the children will follow their mischievous acts. Anyways, everyone will die and they cannot enjoy the benefits of peace and harmony forever. They prefer to enjoy the benefits of evil which can be easily achieved that is totally temporary. What they see is only the first side of reality. They never took time to turn to another page and discover another truth about reality. People like them never grow.

How about for those who still continue doing such disgracefulness acts but do not want the children to follow/ when will they stop? When the children will follow what they did? They may say it can be avoided through discipline. Discipline? Let me ask them this: “are you disciplined enough to discipline the children”? I guess so… they are not! They do not know that they are very influential. What may come, comes. What may happen , happens. When nature does it, they cannot stop it but they can prevent it. People like them never learn.

To all those who are performing the mission of our heavenly King, continue! Continue to model and shape the future of the children. Pick up the pieces of the missing parts of the puzzle that has ruined lots of lives. They are less but indeed, they are powerful and great.

To those who make this world an awful, unpleasant and cruel place to live in, there is always a room for a change. The children’s futures are in their hands. Work right, change now, do while there is still time, who knows, tomorrow’s world might be bleak. Think about the kids.

Summer Vacation

January, February, March- at last, summer has come. What are you going to do this summer? Me? I wanted to spend my few days of vacation home, it is better I will rest from all the stress that the school gives. After a week, I want to go to the beach, spend a week there and have fun. On the next month, I want to fly to local and international destinations and spend the rest of my vacation over there.

On the next day, we folded our clothes, packed our jewelries and accessories, and zipped our bags. We were going to Boracay that day. I was surprised. We haven’t planned this. I never heard my parents saying the word Boracay. As I went outside the house, I can’t see anything because of the smoke that the vehicles give outside. We rode a taxi going to the port. It was too hot to ride a jeepney. We rode a boat going to boracay.as we went to boracay, it was reported a typhoon attacked cebu, my hometown. Good thing we reach Boracay before the typhoon. The typhoon was reported with speed more than 250kmph. In a week, many people died because of the typhoon. I went to the shores. I saw the dark clouds covering Cebu. I notice that the typhoon getting nearer. The waves sounded weird, the sky got darker, the wind blew, and the rain started to drop. I went inside the hotel. After a while, the water level of the ocean got higher, then our place flooded. The typhoon lasted for a week. A lot of thing got damaged. Many people died in that place too. As we went outside the smoke of the vehicles covered the place. It was too hot that a fire was born. The trees turned to ashes and the houses were as black as night. I bought an ice cream but I had never ate it. The sun’s radiance turned my ice cream to water cream. I watch the television in our room just to know that our house was also burned. I lie down on the bed and cried- this was not a vacation, this was a nightmare. After a while, I slept. I woke up and found out that everything was just a dream.

I realized that summer must be spent helping nature. Mother earth needs us today. She is in line with extinction. Our lives will be affected if this happens. We should not spend our vacation having fun in the beach or any tourist destinations. Instead, we should make ourselves steward to nature. We are the cause of global warming which is the main problem of mother earth today. The smokes of vehicle, overpopulation, smokes from factories, air conditioners and refrigerators, and many other human activities thicken the atmosphere. This way, the ultraviolet rays of the sun can’t escape from the atmosphere. Our home earth heats and affects many organisms. We must take this problem seriously. Let us take earth back to its original shape and make it live long. Let us spend our summer helping nature to make a better nature.

Sport: A Replica of Life

What’s the worth of living when obstacles and challenges do not come along?

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the game of life.

Just as we enjoy hearing the flip, flap, big, bang, boom; and as much as we love watching the dribble, surf, pass, run, kick, and as much as we crave for the heat, energy speed and intensity; have you realized that were you are now is a part of a game?

Holding the ball is not allowed in soccer. Traveling is restricted in basketball. Conforming a word with the arbiter before putting the tiles in the board means disqualification in scrabble. Jumping to a wrong square in chess is blunder. And, overdoing something is prohibited in the game of life.

Just like sports, everything is limited. Everyone is subjected to the laws of nature, church, and state. In a clearer sense, a sport is a replica of life.

As we move on, as life heats up, as the game intensifies, what worth is playing when we don’t learn lessons when we fall?

Friends? Let me now take you to the world where challenges, obstacles and lessons are often misinterpreted. Are you ready?

What is a sport? Well, let me tell you that sports takes a lot of courage, a stir of determination, a spark of graciousness in whatever will happen, and a spirit of teamwork. Do you have what is takes to be a certified sportsman?

Don’t give me that icy stare. You know, you’re only giving me a bad motion.

Very well. Now, what are the latest sports? What’s the talk of the town? What’s happening in your life?

I’m so tired listening about unity, sportsmanship and teamwork again and again being discussed in class. The latest update in sports like this year’s Olympics increases the fire. It is so ironic! Why are you patronizing such games where in fact you can’t demonstrate the values it brings in your lives? Why do you keep on spreading sportsmanship if every then and now, where in fact, you don’t practice what you preach? Oh come on!

Were you one of those who felt the heat, as the crowd grew loud and as the chill covered all over your body while watching the games cross-eyed? Well, let me tell you that I was also intensified, seeing you frolic with life, fearing what you will say, what you will do and what will you think. Wake up people! This is reality. This is the real game. You’re wasting every move; you’re wasting every minute.

Friends, don’t tell me that what you have seen on the screens, the teamwork and the spirit that were projected, the lessons that were shown, MAN! Don’t tell me that you have not absorbed any lessons from what you have witnessed. All those were just for fantasy? for thrills?

You, you, you, you are all ironic! Why are their many escaping duties, refusing to accept task, avoiding challenges, preferring to work alone and slandering the blames on co-workers?

Ladies and Gentlemen let me remind you that life is a game that those on screens, on the paper, the results, the achievements- it was just an exact copy of what life is. And that should be a call that you should work as one and be one. Function as a team, do your thing.

In a world were sports has become a tradition, culture, and a way of life, none much know it’s purpose, none much know what it is, none much inculcates the values and lessons it bring. Hoping for everyone’s conversion, I rest my case.