CHAPTER 1: SOMETHING TO REMEMBER: EXECUTION  A town described in Noli that is believed to

OF GOMBURZA be a prototype of Kalamba

GomBurZa
 Guilty of treason as instigators of Cavite
mutiny (Feb 15, 1872) CHAPTER 3: A CHILD OF GOOD FAMILY
 Death (Feb 17, 1872) Birth details
 Saldua  June 19, 1861
 Gomez  11-12 o’clock at night
 Zamora  Difficult delivery
 Burgos ( I AM INNOCENT) Family
 Burgos and Zamora (insulares)  7 of 11 children (Concha- child who died
 Gomez (Chinese half-breed) when Jose was 4)
 Not the end of an insurrection but a  Saturnina
declaration of war  Paciano
Bagumbayan  Narcisa
 Where the execution took place  Olimpia
 Lucia
CHAPTER 2: THE PRINCIPALES  Maria
Rizal’s father’s and mother’s sides had been people of  Jose
substance and influence well above the average of their  Concepcion
times.  Josefa
Mother side (Alonso)  Trinidad
 Manuel de Quintos  Soledad
 Maternal Grandfather – lawyer in Manila  Younger of two boys
 Lorenzo Alberto Alonso  Story of the moth and the fire
 Father- Phil. Deputy in the Cortes;  I envied the insects that fluttered round
Teacher of Teodora its splendour and was not at all
 Jose frightened when some fell dead into the
 Brother- Europe educated; spoke oil.
German, English, Spanish & French Education
Father side (Mercado)  9 yrs old- Binang
 Mercado means market  Justiniano Aquino Cruz, schoolmaster
 Shifted from agriculture to modest  Barbarous methods of instruction were
participation in local politics seen in Noli when Ibarra proposed for a
Rizal modern schoolhouse in his town, San
 Too many Mercados unrelated to the family Diego.
of Jose so Rizal was added  Leandro, aunt’s grandson, pushed him
 It means a field where wheat, cut while still into the river and Jose almost drowned.
green, sprouts again  Small for his age; tented to compensate
Rizal’s nationalism with self-assertiveness in the form of
 Rationalist, anti-racist and anti-clerical intellectual superiority.
Leon Monroy  Left Binang (Dec 17, 1870)
 Private tutor; former classmate of Rizal’s  Ateneo
father  He was almost denied admission b/c of
San Diego his weak constitution & short stature.
 He took up fencing
CHAPTER 4: RELIGION, RACE AND RHETORIC  Spirit: classical humanities/arts of
Secondary schools in Manila human culture
 San Jose Seminary  Method: memory and understanding
 Dominican College of San Juan de Letran Faith and piety
 Ateneo Municipal  Jose was a pious child.
Entrance examination in Ateneo Municipal  Leader in the Sodality and the Apostolate of
 June 10, 1872 Prayer
 Subjects
 Christian doctrine
 Arithmetic
 Reading
 Certain difficulties
 Term had already began
 Minister was dubious about Rizal’s health
 Solved by Paciano enlisting the help of the
nephew of Father Burgos
 Jesuit curriculum
 Six-year course
 Christian doctrine
 Spanish, Latin, Greek, French
 World geography & history
 History of Spain & Phil
 Mathematics, Science
 Poetry, rhetoric, philosophy
 First year
 Awarded w/ only an accesit meaning among
the leaders but not top of his class
 He visited his mother, who was still prison at
the time
 Lodged w/ a spinster who owed his family
 Second year
 Won a medal
 Moved in Dona Pepay’s boarding house, in
the Walled City
 Third year
 He moved once again to a boarding-house
where the landlord was very strict
Influence of the Jesuits on Rizal
 Jesuit ratio studiorum
 A compilation of general principles and
detailed instructions for teacher; a spirit and
method
 Latin and Greek were taught to train the
mind to think logically
 Ultimate Aim: Ad majorem Dei gloriam: for
the greater glory of God