Group Thought Paper 1 (GTP 1)

RZL110 OL54

Group:
Maha Elbanan
Sydney Canlas
Kelly John Paulene
Razel Dale Cabasal
Paul Bagay

In a 1000-word essay, address the following questions:

How does society (and everything that happens within) impacts the character of a person? How do you
think did the events in the 19th century; the ascendance of the Chinese mestizo; and the issue of the friar
lands affect the character of Jose Rizal?

Remember to keep your discussion coherent by having a controlling idea and developing this idea in a
unified and coherent essay.

Answer:
One 's character has a massive effect on society's power, this is where an individual replicates as
they affect each other by the state he / she is currently in. If we want to accept it or not, in one way or
another, modern society is influencing our characters. Whether that's by chasing expensive material
items, getting married, or living the industrial daily grind, we 're potentially being forced by society to
doing things or following certain habits of following even if we're not aware of them. We assume that by
the character of Jose Rizal, the effect of the events on the said stories is that he uses it as his language of
education as a reaction to his struggle for peace and order against the Spaniards. He is amazed by the
effects of these events as he knows that he can change the Philippines system and become an
independent country so that his patriotism and nationalism towards his works and, mostly, towards his
life existence have been seen. Such as us, Jose Rizal was always under the control of society as well, but
he was not willing to accept the way his people are being abused and was willing to risk his life to save
them by the more corrupt and violent Spanish government and become the hero we know he is. With
that, his nationalistic passion was put into creating novels, and if a person really takes in and
understands his works, they will surely find the impact of the said government on his life and character.
This one example would be his image of the church as dishonest Padre Salvi and malicious Padre
Damaso, in his popular novel Noli me Tangere. We believe that one of the primary influences of which
Rizal's nationalism bloomed was the way the Church of the past handled Indios. As studied, Rizal wanted
the native Filipinos to be aware of the Catholic Church 's wrongdoings as well as how it manipulates
their lives and claims power for selfish motives of its own.