Jay finally confronts Maning about Jun’s death. Jun suspects that Maning ordered that officer to kill Jun. That officer indicates that he has found Jun and wants to know how Maning wants him to proceed. Jun’s new friend, Mia, interprets the Tagalog message on the list from one of Maning's subordinate officers.
While Jay is staying with his uncle, he finds a list of drug dealers in Maning’s desk drawer.The list that includes Jun’s name. Jay theorizes that Maning may have had something to do with Jun’s death. Maning did not appear to care about Jun, because he regularly criticized Jun. Jay's uncle, Maning, is a high-ranking official in the police department. He persuades his parents to let him visit the Philippines during his spring break. Jay does not believe that Jun used or sold drugs.
Jay’s mother tells him later that Jun was killed as a result of the war on drugs in the Philippines. He will not say exactly what happened, only that Jun’s father, Maning, will not allow there to be a funeral. Coincidentally, the next day, Jay’s father informs Jay that Jun is dead. Since that time, Jun had run away from home, and Jay did not know where to send a letter. Jun had written to Jay that he would not bother him again if he did not respond. He remembers how he did not answer the last letter that Jun wrote to him. Jay thinks about Jun and wishes he could talk to him directly. The boys were best friends and wrote letters back and forth even though they did not see one another again.Īs a 17-year-old, Jay is thinking about applying to college. Jun, however, comforted Jay, telling him that he was sad as well.
The other Filipino adults did not understand Jay’s grief.
Jay tried to feed the only puppy that was still alive but it died despite his efforts. A litter of puppies had just been born, but their mother would not take care of them. He remembers the last time he and his family visited his grandparents in the Philippines. Jay learns not only the truth about Jun, but he also a learns a lot about himself.Īlthough Jay’s family lives in Michigan, Jay was born in the Philippines and lived the first year of his life there. Jay travels to his home country with the intent of learning what really happened to Jun, a friend whom Jay could not imaging having used drugs. Tragically, this war allows anyone who used or sold drugs to be murdered by police with no questions asked. Jay receives little information about Jun’s death from his parents, besides the fact that Jun was killed as part of the war on drugs in the Philippines. In the young adult novel Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay, Jason “Jay” Reguero is on track to start college in the fall, the path to success that has been mapped out by others, when he learns that his cousin, Jun, who lives in the Philippines has been killed. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Ribay, Randy.
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