Mantua, Dianne Antonette

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M4 LESSON 2 WHILE TASK

Choose three El Filibusterismo characters from the list below and answer the following.

A. What happened to them at the end of the novel? 2-3 sentences

1. Simoun

Based on the El Filibusterismo lecture video, Simoun was later on identified by Padre Salvi through the
hand writing that was with the bomb and to he was surprised that it was Crisostomo Ibarra, so he
reveals that Crisostomo Ibarra and Simoun is just the same and Simoun became a fugitive and he run to
the forest where he met Padre Florentino. Simoun was shot by a Guardia Civil but he didn’t die instantly.
He died because of a poison in a vial he was carrying, he drunk it after confessing to Padre Florentino
about his identity and his goals.

2. Basilio

Based on the El Filibusterismo lecture video, Basilio was imprisoned and he had to spend more days into
months in the prison because he was accused in the involvement sa uprising posters na pinost ng mga
estudyante. Si Basilio ay meron paring inhibition about the revolution because he is the cause behind
the foiling of the revolt plan by Simon because his best friend Isagani take the lamp and throw into the
river. That’s why, at the end of the novel, Basilio became fugitive, he flees from the scene and run to
another province.

3. Cabesang Tales

The novel El Filibusterismo ends with Tales turning into a fugitive, a robber or a criminal. Cabesang tales
and those people who joined him invade the city of Santa Mesa. He was killed by his son, Tano without
knowing that it was his father.

http://rizalville.com/character-cabesang-tales

B. Relate them to real life events during the Spanish occupation. (What do they represent?) At least 5
sentences

1. Simoun

Simoun represent the Philippine revolution that happened during Spanish colonization. Kasi in the novel
of El fili busterismo, Simoun secretly plan a revolution para sa kabayaran ng mga Spanish government sa
mga kasamaan nilang ginawa sa mga Filipino at eto yung mismong pinoportray ng character ni Simoun,
ang mag revolt. But yung plan ni Simoun ay hindi naging successful. It looks like what happened during
Spanish colonization that Andres Bonifacio, a self-thought warehouse clerk, arranged a secret
revolutionary society, the Katipunan. And the Spaniards found its existence that’s why Bonifacio quickly
gave a call for armed rebellion. The Spanish at that point captured Rizal, who had advocated change yet
never condoned the revolution.
2. Basilio

Basilio represent the red tagging during the Spanish occupation. Basilio was accused in the involvement
of subversive posters na pinost ng mga estudyante sa school at may mga nakasulat na threats, and other
such grave writings. This act was blamed on Basilio that’s why he was arrested. But after a month in jail,
he was freed because he was not guilty, and they knew that Basilio was innocent. Like in Spanish
colonization where Rizal was published the novel of El Fili and make a propaganda movement in order to
destroy or subvert the system of the Spanish government, that’s why the novels are being ban.

3. Cabesang Tales

Cabesang Tales represent the event in Spanish colonization which is the Agrarian trouble because he is a
farmer that also experienced the injustice of the Spanish government in their own land that caused him
to become a rebel. During the Spanish colonization, Rizal’s family were dispossessed of their territories
in a claim with the Dominican Order during the agrarian conflict in Calamba. And his father Don
Francisco Mercado refused to pay the land rents because the hacienda management consistently raised
the expense of the rental. The story of Cabesang Tales in the novel of El Filibusterismo was originate
from real encounters of Rizal’s family and relatives. The administrator of the estate of the Order
requested for a yearly rental from Tales since the last has involved and acquires from the ministers’
property. Tales lost his patience when rental keeps on increasing every year accompanied by threats of
“dispossession”. At the end, he refuses to pay the rent, demands that he lawfully owns the land.