Rizal Midterm Reviewer
Rizal Midterm Reviewer
Rizal Midterm Reviewer
• PRIVATETUTORS-Maestro
Celestino*, Maestro Lucas Padua Senators who pursued killing the Rizal
and Leon Monroy bill -
• *Thehero'sfirsttutorinCalamba
- Rizal's love
for scholarship and intellectual pursuits
was an influence of the town priest of was the
Calamba during his boyhood. college registrar.
His teacher was - the reason
when he was sent to a boys' why Rizal was admitted at Ateneo
school at the age of nine.
Rizal's first professor in the Ateneo
GOMBURZA- Fr. Mariano Gomez, Fr. was . whom he
Jose Burgos, and Fr. Jacinto Zamora described as a "tall, thin man, with a
body slightly bent forward, a harried
walk, an ascetic face, severe and
remarked that Rizal was becoming
inspired, small deep-sunken eyes, a
proficient in Spanish. He inspired the
sharp nose that was almost Greek, and
young Rizal to study harder and to write
thin lips forming an arc whose ends fell
poetry.
toward the chin."
was the
, advised him
original author of the bill which would
to stop communing with the Muses and
make Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and El
pay more attention to more practical
Filibusterismo compulsory reading in all
studies, such as philosophy and natural
universities and colleges.
sciences.
authored the
He studied painting under the
RIZAL LAW believing that the great
famous Spanish painter,
ideals and principles for which the
, and sculpture under
hero died must be imbibed into the
noted Filipino sculptor.
minds of the youths.
Rizal, to develop his weak body,
- Rizal bill
engaged in gymnastics and fencing. He
faced strong opposition from the
thereby continued the physical train-
Catholic Church through this
ing he began under his sports- minded
organization which urged the public to
write letters to their representatives in impressed by
Congress for killing the bill. Rizal's sculptural talent,requested him to
carve for him an image, of the
.
, Rector of the became best of friends and became his
Ateneo, advised Rizal to take medical admirer
course
He is the
leading
during the period. He is the leading
authority among the oculists of France,
who found Rizal such a competent
student and made him his clinical was Rizal's
assistant. , a pretty fourteen-year old
Batangueña from Lipa. In Rizal's own
was born in words: "She was rather short, with eyes
Prague on September 10, 1853. He that were eloquent and ardent at times
studied History at Prague University. and languid at others, rosy- cheeked,
When his correspondence with Rizal with an enchanting and provocative
began, he was 33 years and was a master smile that revealed very beautiful teeth,
teacher at Leitmeritz. and the air of a sylph; her entire self
Blumentritt was among the first to diffused a mysterious charm."
receive the earliest copies of Noli Me
Tangere. " " - describing her as "fair with
seductive and attractive eyes".
is a kind protestant
pastor. Rizal stayed at his home and who was
a tall girl with a regal bearing. He the local fiesta.
sent her love notes written in
invisible ink. In , at the age of eight, he wrote
the poem "Sa Aking mga Kabata"
- his cousin from
Camiling, was a frail, pretty girl At the age of , he wrote
"tender as a budding flower with "Mother's Birthday" to express
kindly, wistful eyes". In her letters to his deep love for his mother.
Rizal, Leonor signed her name as
" ," in order to camouflage their When he was years old, he
intimate relationship from their parents was sent to a boys' school in
and friends. Biñan, Laguna.
In , he founded a secret
In April 1877, Rizal who was then society of Filipino students in the
nearly 16 years old, matriculated in University of Santo Tomas called
the Compañerismo (Comradeship),
taking the course on whose members were called
"Companions of Jehu,"
A year later, in , he wrote more San Eustacio, Martir (St. Eustace, the
poems. It was his last year in the Martyr) - Father Sanchez, requested him
Ateneo. Among the poems written that to write a drama based on the prose story
year were: of St. Eustace the Martyr.
, and secondly,
He persuaded his father to buy him a
costly set of 's historical
work entitled
According to Rizal, this valuable work
was of great aid in his studies and
enabled him to win more prizes in
Ateneo Rizal and his companions were
fascinated by the famous ,
Later Rizal read
the people dancing in the streets during
,a
the procession in honor of the
German scientist-traveler who visited miraculous Birhen Maria de los Dolores.
the Philippines in 1859-1860.
Years later Rizal mentioned the
He was an active member, later in Chapter VI of NoliMe
secretary, of a religious society, the Tangereand Pagsanjan Falls in his
.
travel diary (UnitedStatesSaturday, Practiced fencing and shooting at the
May12,1888), where he said that Niagara Hall of Arms in Sanz y Carbonell.
Falls was the "greatest cascades I ever
saw" but "not so beautiful nor fine as
the falls at Los Baños, (sic) Pagsanjan".
is an undergraduate similar
He was unhappy at this Dominican to the Bachelor’s degree with a more
institution of higher learning because vocational focus.
(1) the Dominican profes- sors were
hostile to him, (2) the Filipino Rizal failed to complete his doctorate
students were racially discriminated in medicine because he did not
against by the Spaniards, and (3) the submit his doctoral thesis.
method of instruction was obsolete
and repressive
During his free time, he visited his
In his novel, ElFilibusterismo, he fellow countrymen – Pardo de Taveras
described how the Filipino students (Trinidad, Felix and Paz) and Juan
were humiliated and insulted by their Luna. Rizal posed in Luna’s canvass
Dominican professors and how
like, “ ”
backward the method of instruction
in which he posed as Sikatuna and
Because of the unfriendly attitude of his Trinidad as Legaspi. He also posed for
professors, Rizal, the most brilliant a group picture called “
graduate of the Ateneo, failed to win ” wherein he dressed as
high scholastic honors. an Egyptian.