El Filibusterismo

Chapter 61: chase on the lake

• "You're right, Elias! But man is a creature of circumstances! Then I was blind,
annoyed - what did I know? Now misfortune has torn the bondage from my eyes;
the solitude and misery of my prison have taught me; now I see the horrible cancer
which feeds upon this society, which clutches its flesh, and which demands a
violent rooting out. They have opened my eyes, they have made me see the sore,
and forced me to be a criminal! Since they wished it, I will be a filibuster, a real
filibuster, I mean. I will call together all the unfortunates, all who feel a heartbeat
in their breast, all those who were sending you to me. No, I will not be a criminal,
never is he such who fights for his native land, but quite the reverse!...."
 Transition:
from Juan Crisostomo Ibarra to Simoun

• Physical characteristics
• Intentions and Plans
 TRANSITION OF CHARACTER
• FROM IBARRA TO SIMOUN
• ADVISER TO THE GOVERNOR – GENERAL
• REASON OF SIMOUN’S RETURN TO SAN DIEGO
 According to Virgilio Almario:
• In Noli me tangere:
“ May isang taong nagbabalik para bumuhay…….”

• In El Filibusterismo:
“ Ang taong ito ay magbabalik para pumatay……”
 POSSIBLE FOCUS OF DISCUSSION
• BAPOR TABO : UPPER DECK AND LOWER DECK
• CABESANG TALES
• DISCOVERY OF SIMOUN’S SECRET BY BASILIO
• THE PLIGHT OF THE STUDENTS
• BASILIO AND JULI
• THE FILIBUSTER’S ULTIMATE PLAN ( THE 2 PLANS)
THE CORPSE
THE WEDDING
• THE FINAL CHAPTER: SIMOUN’S ENCOUNTER WITH PADRE FLORENTINO
• THE STORY OF THE LOCKET
 OPENING CHAPTERS
• SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE TWO OPENING CHAPTERS
 BAPOR TABO
• PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
• HIDDEN MEANING AND SYMBOLISM
 DISCUSSIONS IN THE UPPER DECK
• BAPOR TABO IS TO SLOW
• SHALLOWNESS OF ILOG PASIG
 THREE TALES OF THE PASIG RIVER

• WHAT IS THE IMPLICATION OF THIS DISCUSSION TOWARDS

SIMOUN?
 BAPOR TABO: LOWER DECK
• BASILIO, ISAGANI CAPITAN BASILIO
• TOPIC OF DISCUSSION:
• SIMOUN OFFERED THEM BEER
• THE STUDENTS REFUSED
“You do wrong, Simoun said to them, visibly taken aback. Beer is a good
thing, and I heard Padre Camorra say this morning that the lack of energy
noticeable in this country is due to the great amount of water the inhabitants
drink.”
Isagani was almost as tall as the jeweler, and at this he drew himself up.
“Then tell Padre Camorra, Basilio hastened to say, while he nudged Isagani
slyly, tell him that if he would drink water instead of wine or beer, perhaps we
might all be the gainers and he would not give rise to so much talk.”
 CABESANG TALES
• WHAT MADE HIM THE “VICTIM OF LAND GRABBING”?
• LIFE STORY
 SIMOUN AND TALES
• HOUSE OF TALES – REFUGE FOR SIMOUN
• LOCKET –
• TANGIBLE CONNECTION
• MATANGLAWIN…..
 DISCOVERY OF SIMOUN’S SECRET BY BASILIO
• What is the occasion? Why did Basilio visit his mom?
• What did Basilio notice?
• How did Basilio discovered that Simoun is Ibarra?
 THE PLIGHT OF THE STUDENTS
• STUDENTS WHO FOUGHT FOR THE ACADEMY
• MACARAEG
• BASILIO
• ISAGANI
• SANDOVAL
• TADEO
• PLACIDO PENITENTE
• PEOPLE WHOM THEY SOUGHT HELP FROM:
• PADRE IRENE (2 HORSE)
• SENOR PASTA
• PEPAY (DON CUSTODIO)
 IMPRISONMENT OF THE STUDENT
• PASKIL/ KALATAS
• BASILIO WAS LEFT NO ONE WILL BAIL HIM OUT
• JULI COMMITTED SUICIDE
• BASILIO DECIDED TO JOIN SIMOUN
 THE FILIBUSTER’S ULTIMATE PLAN: THE 2 PLANS
• THE CORPSE
• THE PLAN WILL START AFTER SIMOUN GIVES THE WARNING AFTER SAVNG MARIA
CLARA FROM THE CONVENT
• UNFORTUNATELY, HE FAILED TO GIVE THE SIGNAL AFTER LEARNING THAT MARIA
CLARA IS ALREADY DEAD

• THE WEDDING
• JUANITO PELAEZ AND PAULITA GOMEZ (GF OF ISAGANI)
• ARRANGED MARRIAGE BETWEEN TIMOTEO AND DONA VICTORINA
• WEDDING RECEPTION: CAPITAN TIAGO’S RESIDENCE
• GIFT: LAMP (SIMOUN)
• ISAGANI THWARTED THE PLAN
 THE FINAL CHAPTER: SIMOUN’S ENCOUNTER WITH
PADRE FLORENTINO

• SIMOUN SEEK REFUGE WITH PADRE FLORENTINO

• DON TIBURCIO WAS THERE AND HIDING FROM DONA VICTORINA
• PADRE FLORENTINO – LETTER – COJERA/COGERA
• DON TIBURCIO LEFT PADRE FLORENTINO
• SIMOUN TOOK A POISON
• SIMOUN MADE A CONFESSION
 Some lines from the final chapter:
• “Why then has He denied me His aid? asked the sick man in a voice charged with bitter
complaint.
Because you chose means that He could not sanction, was the severe reply. The glory of
saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin. You have believed that what
crime and iniquity have defiled and deformed, another crime and another iniquity can purify and
redeem. Wrong! Hate never produces anything but monsters and crime criminals! Love alone
realizes wonderful works, virtue alone can save! No, if our country has ever to be free, it will
not be through vice and crime, it will not be so by corrupting its sons, deceiving some and bribing
others, no! Redemption presupposes virtue, virtue sacrifice, and sacrifice love!”
• “The just and the worthy must suffer in order that their ideas may be known and extended!
You must shake or shatter the vase to spread its perfume, you must smite the rock to get the
spark! There is something providential in the persecutions of tyrants, Señor Simoun!”
• “An immoral government presupposes a demoralized people, a conscienceless
administration, greedy and servile citizens in the settled parts, outlaws and brigands in the
mountains. Like master, like slave! Like government, like country!”
• I do not mean to say that our liberty will be secured at the sword’s point, for the sword
plays but little part in modern affairs, but that we must secure it by making ourselves
worthy of it, by exalting the intelligence and the dignity of the individual, by loving justice,
right, and greatness, even to the extent of dying for them,—and when a people reaches that
height God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, the tyranny will crumble like
a house of cards and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.
• The sick man said nothing, so Padre Florentino, deeply thoughtful, murmured:
“Where are the youth who will consecrate their golden hours, their illusions, and
their enthusiasm to the welfare of their native land? Where are the youth who will
generously pour out their blood to wash away so much shame, so much crime, so
much abomination? Pure and spotless must the victim be that the sacrifice may be
acceptable! Where are you, youth, who will embody in yourselves the vigor of life
that has left our veins, the purity of ideas that has been contaminated in our brains,
the fire of enthusiasm that has been quenched in our hearts? We await you, O
youth! Come, for we await you!”