LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL:

TRAVEL OF RIZAL

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MARIA CRISTINA D. MACALOS
TRAVEL OF RIZAL

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ASIA JAPAN
Among the happiest moments of Rizal in his life was
his sojourn in the Land of the Cherry Blossoms. He
stayed in Japan for one month and a half from
February 28 to April 13, 1888. He was charmed by
the natural beauty of Japan, the manners of the
Japanese people and the picturesque of shrines. He
also fell in love with a Japanese girl, who loveliness
infused joy and romance in his sorrowing heart.

MACAU
Rizal described Macao as a small, low and gloomy.
There are many junks, sampans, but few steamers, it
looks sad and is almost dead-like.
During his two day stay in Macao, he visited the
theater, casino, cathedral and churches, pagodas and
botanical gardens and the bazaars. He also saw the
famous Grotto of Camoens.
ASIA HONG KONG
In Hong Kong, Rizal stayed at Victoria Hotel. He was
welcomed by the Filipino community in Hong Kong.
During this time, a Spaniard, Jose Varanda, was
shadowing Rizal’s movements in Hong Kong. It is
believed that he was ordered to spy on Rizal

PHILIPPINES
On August 5, the Haiphong arrived in Manila and he
went ashore with a happy heart for he was once again
in Filipino soil. He stayed in the city for a short time to
visit some friends and observed that Manila was the
same five years ago.
On August 8, he returned to Calamba. His family
welcomed him affectionately. The rejoicing returns
over when his family became worried of his safety.
Paciano did not leave him during the first days because
he wants to protect him from any enemy assault. Even
his own father would not let him go out alone.
Rizal had good and bad impressions of the United States. The good were the material progress of the
country, the drive and energy of the American people, the natural beauty of the land, the high standard
of living and the opportunities for better life offered to poor immigrants. On bad impression was the lack
of racial equality. There existed racial prejudice which was inconsistent with the principles of democracy
and freedom of which Americans talk so much but do not practice.

NEW YORK
USA
The steamer Belgic docked at the San Francisco on Saturday
morning, April 28, 1888. All passengers were not allowed to
land.

SAN FRANCISCO
Rizal knew about this and befriended him and acted as
Tetcho Suehiro’s interpreter during their long trip from
Yokohama to San Francisco, across the U.S. to New
York until they reached London, where they parted.
LONDON
Rizal lived in London from May, 1888 to March 1889.

PARIS
On March 30, 1891, Rizal proceeded to Paris by
train. Rizal retired from the Propaganda Movement
and retired also from La Solidaridad.

MADRID, SPAIN
Rizal’s life in Madrid could be
misfortunes. In August 1890, Rizal
tried all legal means to seek justice
Calamba tenants, but to no avail.
married a British engineer.
described as full of
arrived in Madrid. He
for his family and the
Also, Leonor Rivera

BELGIUM
On January 28, 1890, Rizal left Paris for Brussels, the capital of
Belgium. Rizal was accompanied by Jose Albert when he moved to
Brussels.
EUROPE
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Noli Me Tangere
Summary

Juan Crisostomo Ibarra is a young Filipino who spent seven years studying in
Europe. When he returned to his home country, he found that his father, a
wealthy landowner, had died in prison because of a fight with Padre Damaso, the
Franciscan friar who was in charge of the parish. Ibarra is going to marry Maria
Clara, a beautiful and smart girl who is said to be the only daughter of the wealthy
Don Santiago de los Santos, also known as Capitan Tiago.

Ibarra decides to stop fighting and work for the good of his people. To show
how good he is, he wants to open a public school in his hometown at his own
expense. Everyone seems to support him, even Padre Damaso’s replacement, a
young and sad Franciscan named Padre Salvi, whom Maria Clara says she
instinctively fears.

At the ceremony to lay the cornerstone for the new school building, there is a
strange accident that seems to be aimed at Ibarra’s life. The celebrations continue
until the dinner, when Fray Damaso insults Ibarra’s memory of his father in a very
rude way. The young man loses control and is about to kill the friar when Maria
Clara steps in and stops him.
 Ibarra is kicked out of the church, and because of his fear of the friars, Capitan
Tiago has to break the engagement and let Padre Damaso marry Maria Clara to a
young Spaniard who won’t bother anyone. Maria Clara agrees to this plan because
she thinks her father told her to and because she has a mysterious fear of Padre
Salvi. However, she gets very sick and is only saved by medicines sent secretly by
Ibarra and given by a girlfriend.
Ibarra is able to get the excommunication lifted, but before he can explain what
happened, Padre Salvi’s agents start a secret uprising against the Civil Guard, and
Ibarra is blamed for leading it to ruin him. He is warned by an unknown friend, an
outlaw named Elias, whose life he saved by accident. But he doesn’t run away
because he wants to see Maria Clara first. When the outbreak happens, he is arrested
as the one who started it and put in prison in Manila.
On the night that Capitan Tiago has a ball at his house in Manila to celebrate his
daughter’s supposed engagement, Ibarra gets out of jail and is able to see Maria
Clara alone. He starts to blame her because the charge against him is based on a
letter he wrote to her before he went to Europe, but she clears herself of betrayal to
him. She gave them the letter in exchange for two others written by her mother
right before she was born. These letters prove that Padre Damaso is her real father.
Padre Salvi found these letters by accident in the convento. He used them to scare
the girl and get Ibarra’s letter, which he then used to make other letters that were
used to frame the young man. She tells him that she will marry the young Spaniard,
sacrificing herself to save her mother’s name and Capitan Tiago’s honor and to
avoid a public scandal, but that she will always be true to him.
 Elias helped Ibarra get away. He took him in a banka up the Pasig River to the lake, where
the Civil Guard was so close that Elias had to jump into the water and draw them away from
the boat where Ibarra was hiding.

On Christmas Eve, Elias shows up, hurt and dying, at the tomb of the Ibarras in a dark
wood. He finds a boy named Basilio next to the body of his mother, a poor woman who had
gone crazy because of her husband’s neglect and the abuses of the Civil Guard. Her younger
son had gone missing from the convent, where he worked as a sacristan, some time before.
Basilio doesn’t know who Elias is, but he helps him build a funeral pyre where his body and
that of the madwoman will be burned.

When Maria Clara hears that Ibarra died in the chase on the Lake, she is sad and asks her
“godfather” Fray Damaso, to put her in a convent. Unaware that she knows the truth about
them, the friar breaks down and tells her that all the trouble he has caused with the Ibarras
has been to keep her from marrying a native, which would put her and her children in the
class that is oppressed and forced to work. He finally gives in to her pleas, and she becomes
a nun at the convent of St. Clara, where Padre Salvi is soon sent as a minister.
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El Filibusterismo
Summary
The protagonist of El Filibusterismo is a jeweler named Simoun. He is the new identity of Crisostomo Ibarra
who, in the prequel Noli, escaped from pursuing soldiers. It is revealed thatCrisostomo dug up his buried
treasure and fled to Cuba, becoming richer and befriending Spanish officials.
After many years, the newly fashioned Simoun returns to the Philippines, where he is able to freely move
around. He is a powerful figure not only because of his wealth but also because he is a good friend and adviser
of the governor general.
Outwardly, Simoun is a friend of Spain; however, in secret, he is plotting a terrible revenge against the
Spanish authorities. His two obsessions are to rescue his paramour Maria Clara from the nunnery of Santa Clara
and to foment a Philippine revolution against Spain.
The story of El Filibusterismo begins on board a steamer ship sailing up the Pasig river from Manila to Laguna
de Bay. Among the passengers are Simoun; Doña Victorina, a pro-Spanish native woman who is going to Laguna
in search of her henpecked husband, Tiburcio de Espadaña, who has deserted her; Paulita Gomez, her beautiful
niece; Ben-Zayb (anagram of Ibañez), a Spanish journalist who writes silly articles about the Filipinos; Padre
Sibyla, vice- rector of the University of Santo Tomas; Padre Camorra, the parish priest of the town of Tiani; Don
Custodio, a pro-Spanish Filipino holding a position in the government; Padre Salvi, thin Franciscan friar and
former cura of San Diego; Padre Irene, a kind friar who was a friend of the Filipino students; Padre Florentino, a
retired scholarly and patriotic Filipino priest; Isagani, a poet-nephew of Padre Florentino and a lover of Paulita;
and Basilio, son of Sisa and promising medical student, whose medical education is financed by his patron,
Capitan Tiago.
 A man of wealth and mystery, Simoun is a very close friend and confidante of the
Spanish governor general. Because of his great influence in Malacañang, he was called
the “Brown Cardinal” or the “Black Eminence”. By using his wealth and political
influence, he encourages corruption in the government, promotes the oppression of the
masses, and hastens the moral degradation of the country so that the people may
become desperate and fight. He smuggles arms into the country with the help of a rich
Chinese merchant, Quiroga, who aspires to be Chinese consul of Manila. His first
attempt to begin the armed uprising did not materialize because at the last hour he
hears the sad news that Maria Clara died in the nunnery. In his agonizing moment of
bereavement, he did not give the signal for the outbreak of hostilities.
After a long time of illness brought about by the bitter loss of Maria Clara, Simoun
perfects his plan to overthrow the government. On the occasion of the wedding of
Paulita Gomez and Juanito Pelaez, he gives a wedding gift to them a beautiful lamp.
Only he and his confidential associates, Basilio (Sisa’s son who joined his
revolutionary cause), know that when the wick of his lamp burns lower the
nitroglycerine, hidden in its secret compartment, will explode, destroying the
house where the wedding feast is going to be held killing all the guests, including
the governor general, the friars, and the government officials. Simultaneously, all
the government buildings in Manila will be blown by Simoun’s followers.
As the wedding feast begins, the poet Isagani, who has been rejected by Paulita
because of his liberal ideas, is standing outside the house, sorrowfully watching the
merriment inside. Basilio, his friend, warns him to go away because the lightened
lamp will soon explode.
 Upon hearing the horrible secret of the lamp, Isagani realizes that his beloved Paulita is in grave
danger. To save her life, he rushes into the house, seizes the lightened lamp, and hurls it into the river,
where it explode.
The revolutionary plot is thus discovered. Simoun is cornered by the soldiers, but he escapes.
Mortally wounded, and carrying his treasure chest, he seeks refuge in the home of Padre Florentino by
the sea.
The Spanish authorities, however, learns of his presence in the house of Padre Florentino.
Lieutenant Perez of the Guardia Civil informs the priest by letter that he will come at eight
o’clock that night to arrest Simoun.
Simoun eludes arrest by taking poison. As he is dying, he confesses to Padre Florentino,
revealing his true identity, his dastardly plan to use his wealth to avenge himself, and his
sinister aim to destroy his friends and enemies.

The confession of the dying Simoun is long and painful. It is already night when Padre Florentino, wiping the
sweat from his wrinkled brow, rises and begins to meditate. He consoles the dying man saying: “God will forgive you
Señor Simoun. He knows that we are fallible. He has seen that you have suffered, and in ordaining that the
chastisement for your faults should come as death from the very ones you have instigated to crime, we can see His
infinite mercy. He has frustrated your plans one by one, the best conceived, first by the death of Maria Clara, then by
a lack of preparation, then in some mysterious way. Let us bow to His will and render Him thanks!” Watching Simoun
die peacefully with a clear conscience and at peace with God, Padre Florentino falls upon his knees and prays for the
dead jeweler. The priest then takes the treasure chest and
th ows it into the sea.
Thank You!