De Chavez, Faith Trisha L.

Take Home Recitation March 4, 2024

ARCH42S1. Dr. Jocelyn
C. Cuchapin
Sa Aking mga Kabata (To My Fellow Children)

Rizal suggests that as a people, or as Filipinos, we should cherish our own language and consider it a gift
from God for which we should be thankful. Rizal compared language to a bird that may soar through the
skies and urged us to cherish it as our tool for achieving freedom. Like us Filipinos who were howling
under the privations of Spanish colonial rule, the bird has its own will to fly wherever it wants to go and
whatever it wants to accomplish. The key to opening the cage in which it is held is language.

Someone who does not appreciate their own language is like a fish or a beast that smells awful or
repulsive, according to Rizal. Like a fish that comes from the ocean and gets stinky over time as it gets
out of its habitat. Due to their newfound immersion in a different language and culture, Filipino
immigrants, like some of the ones we observed, have a tendency to forget their native tongue and
customs. Because of their attempts to hide their genuine identities, which are obvious, they only make
themselves look ridiculous and disgraceful, and Rizal likened them to something worse than a beast and a
stinking fish.

With this, this drawing tells us that even though we have different languages, religions , and races , we
can unite and work together to achieve peace in our country and to have development and advancement of
our economy.