“I have to believe much in God

because I have lost my faith in man. ”

“I die without seeing dawn's
light shining on my country...
You, who will see it, welcome it
for me...don't forget those who
fell during the nighttime.”
“The example could encourage
others who only fear to start.”
“There are no tyrants if there are
no slaves.”
“He who does not know how to
look back at where he came from

will never get to his destination .”

Noli Me Tangere
Touch me not
Jose Rizal wrote and
published Noli Me
Tangere to expose the ills
of the society during the
Spanish Colonization.
Pop Quiz
1. He is one of the main characters of the
story who returned to the Philippines after
7 years of studying in Europe.
2. He is the friar who impregnated a Filipina
who gave birth to a child named Maria
Clara.
3. He is the son of Sisa who is killed by a
cruel friar because of being suspected to
stealing gold coins.
4. The friar who replaced Fray Damaso and
abused Maria Clara in the convent of St.
Clara.
To ruin Ibarra—who is engaged to Maria Clara, the
woman Father Salví secretly loves—he organizes a
violent rebellion against the Civil Guards and
frames Ibarra as the ringleader.
5. He is an outlaw who helped Ibarra to
escape the Guardia Civil, he died beside
Sisa in a funeral pyre.
6. She is the pretentious native Filipina who
married a quack doctor just to gain the title
of Doktora.
7. She was the inspiration of Jose Rizal in
creating Maria Clara’s character.
Leonor Rivera
8. He is the town mayor who served as
Maria Clara’s father.
9. What happened to Maria Clara in the
end of the novel?
She entered the Royal Monastery
of Saint Clare (that stood until
1945 in Intramuros) and became a
nun.
10. What happened to Ibarra in the end of
the novel?
 He and Elias paddled up the Pasig River
toward Laguna de Bay. A police boat, with
the Guardia Civil on board, pursued them as
their banca reached the lake. Elias jumped
into the water to divert the attention of the
soldiers on him, thereby giving Ibarra a
chance to escape. The soldier fired at the
swimming Elias, who was hit and sank. The
water turned red because of his blood. The
soldiers, thinking that they had killed the
fleeing Ibarra returned to Manila. Thus
Ibarra was able to escape.
11. When was Noli Me Tangere published?
What language did Rizal use in the original
publication of the novel?
It was written in Spanish and
published in 1887.
12. Why was Noli Me Tangere banned in
the Philippines?
 In 1887, he published his first
novel, Noli Me Tangere, written in
Spanish, a searing indictment of
clerical abuse as well as of colonial
rule’s shortcomings. That same year, he
returned to Manila, where the Noli had
been banned and its author now hated
intensely by the friars. In 1888, he went
to Europe once more, and there wrote
the sequel, El Filibusterismo (The
Subversive), published in 1891.
13. Did Rizal try to write a third novel?
 In Hong Kong, in 1892, Jose Rizal
began writing a sequel to El
Filibusterismo. He began in Tagalog,
called the opening chapter
"Makamisa", then started anew in
Spanish, and eventually left behind
two texts including an unfinished
third novel.
15. Why was Rizal executed?
 After a trial, Rizal was convicted
of sedition (treason; the crime of
trying to overthrow your country’s
government) and sentenced to death
by firing squad. Rizal's public
execution was carried out in Manila
on December 30, 1896, when he was
35 years old. His execution created
more opposition to Spanish rule.
16. If Rizal did not write the Noli Me Tangere,
what would have happened to the Philippines
and its people?
The Revolution According
to Raymundo Mata
By Gina Apostol
Published 2009
308 pages
 Gina Apostol

She was born in Manila,

grew up in Tacloban,
Leyte, and lives in
western Massachusetts
and New York City.
 Gina Apostol
Her first two
novels, Bibliolepsy and The
Revolution According to
Raymundo Mata both won
the Philippine National
Book Award for Fiction,
also known as the Juan
Laya Prize for the Novel.
The novel centers on
Raymundo Mata, an
uncivilized night-blind
member of the
Katipunan and
participant of the
Philippine Revolution.
The story traces on:

a. Mata’s childhood

b. His education in
Manila

c. His love affairs

d. His discovery of
Rizal and his books,
which in turn involves
him with the
Philippine Revolution
and ultimately,
Makamisa, Rizal’s
third and unfinished
novel
What does this line mean?

“Art is a reproach to
those who receive it.”
Art becomes a reproach to
those who receive it when
the content says otherwise
to what the people believe
and do.
ACTIVITY
TIME
Read the excerpt
from Gina Apostol’s
“The Revolution
According to
Raymundo Mata.”

On a 1 whole sheet
of paper, COPY and
ANSWER the
questions.