Ang Talambuhay ni Rizal

Chapter I: My Birth and Earliest Years in Kalamba

● June 19, 1861

● Mga alaala

● Paglalarawan sa kanyang magulang

 CHAPTER II: MY SCHOOLING IN BINAN

Dona Teodora

Maestro Celestino

Maestro Leon Monroy

Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz

Old Juancho
CHAPTER IV: The Injustice Done My Mother
● Nais mag-aral ni Rizal
● Don Jose Alberto
● Nakulong si Dona Teodora
● Nawalan ng tiwala si Rizal sa pagkakaibigan
● “What mother would not sacrifice life itself for her children?”
● Dalawang taon bago napatunayan na inosente si Dona Teodora
● Pinapunta sa Manila si Rizal upang mag-aral sa Ateneo Municipal
CHAPTER V: A Student in Manila
● Noong una ay ayaw nilang ipasok si Rizal sa Ateneo Municipal
● “Empires” -- isang Roman, isang Greek
● Calle Caraballo - Titay
● Isang linggo
● Isang buwan: “emperor”
● Umuwi si Rizal
● Nagsimula si Rizal magbasa ng mga nobela
● Ayaw nang pabalikin ni Teodora si Rizal sa Manila - Did she have a
presentiment of what was going to happen to me? Can it be that a
mother’s heart gives her double vision?
CHAPTER V: A Student in Manila
● Metaphysics
● Kalamba girl
● “I am now twenty years old and have the satisfaction of remembering
that in the crises of my life, I have not followed my own pleasure. I have
always tried to live by my principles and to do the heavy duties which I
have undertaken.”
The Turkey that caused the Kalamba land trouble
● Father and owners of the Kalamba estate; manager
● Poultry yard (TURKEY)
● Epidemic, few were left
● Rent- ⅓ more than current payment
● After few months- rent doubled
● Appeared in court
● Lost his houses and machinery
From Japan to England across America
● Yokohama, 1888
● Card from the official in charge at the Spanish legation
● In steamer, met a half Filipino family
● Met a Japanese editor of an independent newspaper
● “I could speak to everyone in his own language and understand what he said.”

Memory Gems

● “A man keeps his independence while he holds to his own way of thinking.”
● “It is a useless life which is not consecrated to a great idea.”
Rizal sa Dapitan

● June 26, 1892 - Jose Rizal’s arrival in Manila

● Governor General Despujol - exiled Rizal
● Deportation to Fort Santiago
● July 14, 1892 - Jose Rizal boarded the ferryboat “Cebu”
● July 17, 1892 - Arrival in Dapitan
● Captain Ricardo Carnicero - Military Governor of Dapitan
Rizal sa Dapitan
1. for publishing anti-Catholic and anti-friar books and articles;

2. for having in possession a bundle of handbills, the Pobres Frailes, in which

advocacies were in violation of the Spanish orders;

3. for dedicating his novel, El Filibusterismo to the three “traitors” (Gomez, Burgos
and Zamora) and for emphasizing on the novel's title page that “the only salvation
for the Philippines was separation from the mother country (referring to Spain)”;
and

4. for simply criticizing the religion and aiming for its exclusion from the Filipino
culture.
Rizal sa Dapitan
Father Superior Pastells informed Father Obach that Rizal could live at the parish
convent on the following conditions:

● 1. "That Rizal publicly retract his errors concerning religion, and make
statements that were clearly pro-Spanish and against revolution.
● 2. "That he perform the church rites and make a general confession of his
past life.
● 3. "That henceforth he conduct himself in an exemplary manner as a Spanish
subject and a man of religion."

Rizal did not agree with these conditions. Consequently, he lived in the house of
the commandant, Captain Carnicero. The relations between Carnicero (the
warden) and Rizal (the prisoner) were warm and friendly.
Rizal sa Dapitan
● Manila Lottery - "This was his only vice"
● Challenging the Religion - Father Pablo Pastells
● Idyllic Life in Dapitan
My life now is quiet, peaceful, retired and without glory, but I think it is useful too. I teach reading, Spanish, English,
mathematics and geometry to the poor but intelligent boys here. Moreover I teach them to behave like men. I have
taught the men how to get a better way of earning their living and they think I am right. We have begun and success
is crowning our trials.

● As a physician; an engineer; an educator; an agriculturist; as a

businessman; an inventor; an artist; a linguist; a scientist
Rizal sa Dapitan
● Romantic affair with Josephine Bracken
● Katipunan seeks Rizal’s advice
● As a volunteer in Cuba
● Farewell in Dapitan
● 4 years
FILIPINO PROVERBS
● “The most difficult to rouse from sleep is the man who pretends to be asleep.”
● “Too many words, too little work.”
FILIPINO PUZZLES
● “He carries me, I carry him.” — The shoes.
● “A deep well filled with steel blades.” —The mouth.