MENESES, ROWENA O.

LIFE,WORKS AND WRITINGS OF

RIZAL
BSED III FILIPINO INSTRUCTOR: SIR NOMER RAQUINO
JULY 2,2020

3RD WEEK ACTIVITY

AIMS OF LA LIGA FILIPINA HOW COULD BE ATTAINED..

They need to have a common purpose, to

1.To unite the whole archipelago into one be united. And no one is going to turn it
vigorous and homogenous organization. down for another's principle.
Abide by the law. The law should be able
to bring peace and unity to a country by
maintaining order.

Officials of the country will establish legal

2. Mutual protection in every want and skills, protection and needs.
necessity.

Develop anti-crime, anti -violence and

3.Defense against all violence and injustice anti- discrimination law as opposed to
LGBTQ views.

4.Encouragemen to instruction,  Reviving farming interest in the

agriculture, and commerce; and Philippines through agricultural
entrepreneurship education. Encourage
fellow Filipinos to buy our own product.
 And exporting of domestic product.

 
Supports and advocates gradual reform
5. Study the application of reforms.
rather than abolition or revolution.

MY REFLECTION:

“JOSE RIZAL”
by Marilou Diaz- Abaya

Jose Rizal Film is truly one of the most beautiful, wonderful and can be
considered a masterpiece. An art that will help students to better understand the life of
our National Hero.. It shows her being a physician, novelist, poet, linguist, painter,
sculptor, farmer, naturalist,. and member of popular institutions. Born in Kalamba town,
Laguna province on June 19, 1861. The seventh child of Don Francisco Mercado and his
wife, Donya Teodora Alonso.
This movie is about the life of our National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal. It covered his life
from childhood until he was convicted gunmen in Bagumbayan and died at the hands of
the Spaniards. It all began with Rizal telling the truth through his novels. Noli Me
Tangere and El filibusterism have been the way to live the hearts of Filipinos in order to
rebel and achieve the Philippines' hope of independence against the Spanish government.
It expresses his wish of peace for Filipinos because of these novels. The Spanish
government has accused Jose Rizal of leading the revolution. Even his brother Paciano
was tortured to admit that Rizal had something to do with the said revelation. November
1896 Rizal was arrested and taken to Fort Santiago. In prison there is a slave or servant
whom he tells of his life. He recalls his youth, how Paciano recounted the execution of
three martyrs GOMBURZA (Gomez, Burgos and Zamora),
The teaching of his mother Teodora Alonzo and the story of the young moth - he
go to Biñan to study, his mother's confinement, the change of surname Mercado in Rizal,
his life in the Ateneo Municipal and Rizal's treatment of his mother's eye problem.
Taviel was a Spanish official who at first did not believe him. But by sharing
Rizal's life in prison, he learned to respect Rizal and realizes that this is not just an
innocent case but a wonderful creature and consequently he decided to give his all in
order to defend it at trial. Rizal recounts his life at the University of Santo Tomas where
he took a medical course, the extreme discrimination against Filipino students there, and
the love affair with his cousin Leonor Rivera. Rizal and Taviel talk a lot. Rizal's
opponents are one of them.
According to Taviel, the antagonist of Rizal's novel is the Spanish government
and religion. Rizal argues that as a writer, he is the protagonist of everything and himself.
Everything he wrote was purely factual, in the things he wrote the Filipinos would find
themselves, their history. Second is what Rizal wants to convey to Spain. The Filipinos
only demand equality and recognize the Filipinos as equal to the Spaniards. Third is Rizal
going to Europe.
 Taviel wonders why Rizal was able to leave Leonor? What goal is heavier than
love for a girlfriend? His elder brother Paciano sends him to study there and do what is
right for the people. There he will learn and freely write the changes that need to be made
and justice to the people.
After returning to the Philippines, Rizal founded La Liga Filipina. It is a national
organization of Filipinos that contains change under the Spaniards.
Here he met Andres Bonifacio. But La Liga Filipina remains a dream. La Liga Filipina is
considered an alliance against Spain. Some agents of the friars in Rizal's suitcase planted
devastating pamphlets.
As a result, Rizal returned to the Philippines and was taken prisoner to a remote
area in Dapitan a small town in the northwest of Mindanao. There he met the love of his
life, Josephine Bracken,they had a baby but died a few hours later. Despite deporting
Rizal to Dapitan and writing a manifesto that did not revolt in response to Filipino
grievances, the friars still wanted him to die.
On the defendant's side, Rizal's letters conveyed how the Philippines should
operate. He wanted equal rights and freedoms for Filipinos. But this does not imply that
Rizal is the cause of the revolution. And finally, with Rizal's permission to speak, he said
all he wanted was freedom.“Freedom not due to revolution but freedom
through education.” But despite Taviel's defenses against Rizal, he has nothing to do with
the situation. The trial was just a hoax Rizal was set to shoot on December 30, 1896.
Taviel was hurt and disgusted as to why he was still a Spaniard. Due to the verdict, Rizal
was visited by his mother and siblings. She gave her last wish to the mother and a lamp
containing her last poem, the Mi Ultimo Adios (or Last Order). December 30th, 1896 was
Rizal's scheduled Death Day. With the death of Rizal, the Philippines became
increasingly violent. The Philippines achieved independence on June 12, 1898. A few
years ago, Dr. Jose P. Rizal was declared a National Hero.
In this film I remember Dr. Jose Rizal’s line “ Mabuti pang mamatay para sa
Bayan kaysa mamatay ng wala man lang nagawa para sa kinabukasan nito…”. a line that
allowed me to see the truth at the time therefore it is important to appreciate his
contribution to our independence.