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Touch Me Not

The document summarizes Jose Rizal's 1887 novel Noli Me Tangere. It describes the novel as exposing the abuse of power by Spanish Catholic friars ruling the Philippines during colonial period. The story follows Crisostomo Ibarra who returns after 7 years to find his love Maria Clara and discover his father's suspicious death, allegedly ordered by the friar Padre Damaso. This inspires Ibarra's revolution against the friars and Spanish government. The novel sparked the Philippine revolution through its symbols of Spanish oppression.

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Touch Me Not

The document summarizes Jose Rizal's 1887 novel Noli Me Tangere. It describes the novel as exposing the abuse of power by Spanish Catholic friars ruling the Philippines during colonial period. The story follows Crisostomo Ibarra who returns after 7 years to find his love Maria Clara and discover his father's suspicious death, allegedly ordered by the friar Padre Damaso. This inspires Ibarra's revolution against the friars and Spanish government. The novel sparked the Philippine revolution through its symbols of Spanish oppression.

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DISCUSSION OF THE CONTENT :

• JOSE RIZAL’S NOLI ME TANGERE WAS ALL ABOUT THE DESCRIPTION


OF THE SPANISH COLONIZATION HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES AND
HOW THE SPANISH TREATED FILIPINOS BADLY. IF FOLLOWED THE
STORY OF CRISOSTOMO IBARRA WHO CAME FROM EUROPE TO STUDY
AND RETURNED IN THE PHILIPPINES AFTER HIS 7 YEARS OF
JOURNEY. HE REUNITED WITH HIS NEMESIS, PADRE DAMASO AT
KAPITAN TIAGO’S HOUSE.
• HE ALSO VISITED HIS LOVE, MARIA CLARA
WHOM HE MISSED FOR SO LONG. HE WAS
SHOCKED TO KNEW ABOUT HIS FATHER’S
DEATH. LIEUTENANT GUEVARRA, HIS
FATHER’S FRIEND, TOLD THE STORY BEHIND
HIS FATHER’S DEATH. HE WAS TOLD THAT
PADRE DAMASO ORDERED THE GRAVEDIGGERS
TO TRANSFER RAFAEL IBARRA’S BODY TO THE
CHINESE CEMETERY.
• ALTHOUGH THE
GRAVEDIGGERS DID NOT
FOLLOW PADRE DAMASO’S
ORDERS, THEY THREW
THE BODY INTO THE
RIVER. THIS MADE
CRISISTOMO IBARRA
ANGRY THAT MADE HIM
START A REVOLUTION
AGAINST PADRE DAMASO
AND THE SPANISH
DON RAFAEL IBARRA
GOVERNMENT.
OBJECTIVE

• NOLI ME TANGERE IS AN 1887 NOVEL BY FILIPINO WRITTER AND ACTIVIST JOSE RIZAL PUBLISHED DURING
SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD OF THE PHILIPPINES. IT EXPLORES PERCIEVED INEQUITIES IN LAW AND
PRACTICE IN TERMS OF THE TREATMENT BY RULING THE GOVERNMENT AND THE SPANISH CATHOLIC
FRIARS OF THE RESIDENT PEOPLES.
• THIS NOVEL HAS A LOT OF
SYMBOLISM AND REAL – LIFE
EVENTS THAT OPENED THE
EYES OF THE FILIPINO
PEOPLE DURING THE
SPANISH COLONIZATION TO
START THE REVOLUTION AND
OVERTHROW THE SPANISH
COLONIZERS.
• WHEN DR. JOSE RIZAL WAS 26, HE PUBLISHED HIS FIST NOVEL “ NOLI ME TANGERE” IN BELGUIM IN THE
YEAR 1887. IT WAS THE BOOK THAT GAVE SPARK IN THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTIONS. IT TALKED ABOUT THE
SPANIARD’S ARROGANCE AND DISPICABLE USE OF RELIGION TO ACHIEVE THEIR OWN DESIRES AND RISE
TO POWER.
• THE FIRST HALF OF NOLI ME TANGERE WAS WRITTEN IN MADRID,
SPAIN FROM 1884 – 1885 WHILE DR. JOSE RIZAL WAS STUDYING FOR
MEDICINE.

• WHILE IN GERMANY, RIZAL WROTE THE SECOND HALF OF NOLI ME


TANGERE FROM TIME TO TIME STARTING FEBRUARY 21, 1887. AFTER
HE READ THE NOVEL UNCLE TOM’S CABIN BY HARRIET BEECHER
STONE , HE HAD AN INSPIRATION TO WRITE HIS OWN NOVEL WITH
THE SAME TOPIC TO EXPOSE SPANISH COLONIAL ABUSE IN PRINT.
MORAL LESSON
• THE MORAL LESSON OF THIS NOVEL IS SEEKING JUSTICE SHOULD BE
PLACED ON THE HANDS OF THE AUTHORITIES AND NOT ON THE
HANDS OF THE ONE SEEKING IT. THOUGH THERE IS ALWAYS A
CONNOTATION THAT “JUSTICE IS NOT EASILY OBTAINED ESPECIALLY
BY THOSE WHO LACK INFLUENCE AND MONEY TO OR SO CALLED
POOR”. HOWEVER, THERE IS ALSO A BELIEF THAT JUSTICE MIGHT
NOT BE SERVED IN THIS LIFE BUT GOD IS NOT IDLE AND HE WILL GIVE
MEN THE THING THEY DESERVE WHETHER IT BE FOR GOOD OR THE
RESULTS OF THE WRONGS THEY HAVE DONE.
GROUP MEMBERS
• LEGARDE, LANDER RUSH L. • TAUTHO, CHRISTIAN MILES
• CORNELIA, JULIA MARI • INARIN, EDDIEBOY
• CAHILIG, JOVELYN • CALATRAVA, BETTY
• MANDIA, JAZMIN • ORETA, SHEILA MARIE
• FLORES, CHRISTIAN DAVE • AREVALO, ANGELIE

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