General Education

RIZAL’S LIFE
AND WORKS
BRYAN S. ARPILLEDA, LPT
 What we'll discuss

Today's Topics
• Jose Rizal’s Genealogy
• Rizal’s Early Childhood
• Rizal’s Formative Years
• Rizal’s Romances
• Rizal’s Novels
Always Remember
If you don't know history, then you don't know
anything.
Michael Crichton
Your lecturer
A bit about me
-LPT last March 2023
-BSED English
-College Instructor handling Rizal and Contemporary
World subjects
-”To everyone with a dream, know that your dreams
are valid and on your path you are never denied but
only redirected”
 about jose rizal
-June 19, 1861
-Calamba, Laguna
-Bagumbayan
-Paco Cemetery
-June 22, 1861
• Fr. Rufino Collantes
• Fr. Pedro Casañas - Godfather
• Rizal’s head
 old name updated name
JOSE PROTACIO RIZAL JOSE PROTACIO
MERCADO ALONZO Y REALONDA ALONSO
REALONDA MERCADO-RIZAL
 jose rizal

taft RA 1425
“a child of a commission
good family” -the number -Rizal Law
one hero of his -Sen. Claro M. Recto
people -June 12. 1956
 • JOSE RIZAL’S
GENEALOGY
a. genealogy
-study of ancestry and family
b. chinese ancestry
• Domingo Lam-co - Rizal’s Paternal
ancestor
• Inez dela Rosa
 c. mercado clan d. Alonso clan
• Francisco Mercado y Chinco • Teodora Alonso
-Rizal’s Father -Rizal’s Mother
-May 11, 1818 -Rizal’s First Teacher
-80 years old
• Rajah Lakandula
-Rizal’s Maternal ancestor
 e. claveria list f. siblings
• Catalogo Alfabetico de Apellido
• “Second crop”
• Rizal’s Siblings Song
• Ricial - Rice Field
 SATURNINA
PACIANO
NARCISA
OLYMPIA
LUCIA
MARIA
JOSE RIZAL
CONCEPCION
JOSEFA
TRINIDAD
SOLIDAD
SATURNINA RIZAL
• Oldest, married to Manuel Hidalgo
• Published Pascual H. Poblete’s Tagalog
translation of the Noli Me Tangere
paciano rizal
• Oldest boy
• Major General of the Revolutionary Army
narcisa rizal
• DoñA Sisa
• can recite from memory all the poems of Jose
Rizal
olympia rizal
• Married to a telegraph operator in Manila
lucia rizal
• died in cholera
• Her husband was denied a Christian Burial
maria rizal
• only sister of Rizal who lived up to 1950's
jose rizal
• our national hero
concepcion rizal
• Concha
• died at the age of 3 because of tuberculosis
josefa rizal
• a spinster
trinidad rizal
• also a spinster
solidad rizal
• youngest
• she and Leonor Rivera were classmates
 hereditary influence
father mother
• self-respect • scientific ability
• habit of independent thinking • religious nature
• love for work • spirit of self-sacrifice
• passion for arts and
literature
 hereditary influence
malayan chinise spanish
• serious in nature • elegance
• love for freedom
• frugality • sensitivity to insult
• innate desire to travel
• patience • gallantry to ladies
• indomitable courage
• love for children
ii. rizal’s early
childhood
 age of 3

learned alphabet Maestro Celestino “Ute” “Pepe” or

and prayers Mestro Lucas “Pepito”
Leon Monroy
 age of 5 age of 7

Spanish Family Bible (Historia -wrote comedy

Sagrada) -rewarded 2 pesos
age of 8 age of 9

-wrote the poem -”Mother’s Birthday”

“Sa Aking mga Kabata” -Boy’s School at Binan
￭ Dr. Justiniano Aquinio Cruz
ii. rizal’s formative
years
 years in ateneo

fr. magin ferrando

june 10, 1872
a. late for registration
paciano b. appeared sickly and manuel xerez-burgos
undersized for his age
ateneo de
municipal
manila
roman and carthaginian

-Jose became the “Emperor of

Carthaginian”
count of monte cristo
BY: Alexander dumas

travels in the Philippines

 rizal’s Writings
• A La Juventud Filipina (To the
Philippine Youth)

-first Spanish poem that Rizal wrote

 rizal’s Writings
• Alinza intima la religion y la
educacion (The intimate Alliance
between Religion and Education)

-Education without God is not true education

 rizal’s Writings
• A la Virgen Maria (To the Virgin
Mary)

• Al Niño Jesus (To the Child

Jesus)
 rizal’s Writings
• In Memory of my Village

• Council of the God’s

iv. rizal’s
romances
 miss k

• Segunda Katigbak
• Puppy Love - doesn’t really count
 leonor rivera
• Long Distance
• Idealized but Doomed Love
• Jose’s great love
 gertrude beckett

• A Contemporary Pastime
• Ghosted by Rizal
 josephine bracken
• Rizal’s Last Love
• “Wife”
• Baby Francisco
 leonor valenzuela
• “Orang”
• invisible letters
• Rizal’s province-mate
consuelo ortia y perez
• The Madrid Flirt
• Just a casual relationship
• Cuddle2x bahalag way label
 o sei san

• The Samurai’s Daughter

• Seiko Usui
 suzanne jacoby

• The “Naughty Boy” of Brussels

 Nelly Boustead
• The Rich Heiress
• “Panakip Butas”
• Rizal almost married her
v. rizal’s novels
noli me tangere

• touch me not
• Story of the Philippine
condition
• 64 CHAPTERS
• berlin, Germany
EL FILI
BUSTERISMO
• gomburza

• Ghent, Belgium

• 38 CHAPTERS
makamisa
• unfinished
tagalog novel
• light sarcastic style

• 2 CHAPTERS
dapitan

• unfinished novel

• ironic spanish
rizal’s last date and time of death

words 7:03 am, Dec. 30, 2896

Rizal woke up 5:30 am before his

execution

rizal requested 3 hard boiled eggs

cellmates
Poor Rats
rizal’s last felipe ruiz castillo

words checked Rizal’s pulse

Manuel Gomez Escalante

commander of the artillery that fire
squad Rizal

marcha de cadiz
Spain’s National Anthem