Activity 8:

1. Make & present a skit (a short piece of writing that is usually funny)
showcasing a theme presented in the Noli (some examples: Comparison
of women in the 19th century and in the present; social change;
colonization; social hierarchy; patriotism; social reform).

Patriotism

Scene:
Men: Ay, if I were a man, if I were a man!

Capitan Tinong: Well, if you were a man, the provoked husband at length asked, what would
you do?

Men: What would I do? Well—well—well, this very minute I’d go to the Captain-General and
offer to fight against the rebels, this very minute!

Capitan Tinong: But haven’t you seen what the Diario says? Read it: ‘The vile
and  infamous  treason has been suppressed with energy, strength, and vigor, and soon the
rebellious enemies of the Fatherland and their accomplices will feel all the weight and
severity of the law.’  Don’t you see it? There isn’t any more rebellion.

Men: That doesn’t matter! You ought to offer yourself as they did in; they saved
themselves.

Capitan Tinong: Yes, that’s what was done by Padre Burg—

But he was unable to finish this name, for his wife ran to him and slapped her hand over his
mouth.  Shut up! Are you saying that name so that they may  garrote  you tomorrow on
Bagumbayan? Don’t you know that to pronounce it is enough to get yourself condemned
without trial? Keep quiet!

However Capitan Tinong haven’t felt about obeying her, he could hardly have done.