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Rizal Activity 1 Compare and Contrast

The document summarizes key differences between Jose Rizal's novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. It notes that Noli focuses more on romance while El Fili focuses more on social reform and revolution. Noli was dedicated to the Philippines and depicted opposition to the clergy and Catholic beliefs, while El Fili was dedicated to GomBurZa and consisted of fewer chapters. The document also includes a reaction paper discussing a quote from El Fili that calls on youth to sacrifice themselves to save their homeland from cruelty and embody the vigor, purity, and enthusiasm lost in older generations. The youth symbolize the future, strength, passion, and the dream to achieve what older generations could not.

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Rizal Activity 1 Compare and Contrast

The document summarizes key differences between Jose Rizal's novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. It notes that Noli focuses more on romance while El Fili focuses more on social reform and revolution. Noli was dedicated to the Philippines and depicted opposition to the clergy and Catholic beliefs, while El Fili was dedicated to GomBurZa and consisted of fewer chapters. The document also includes a reaction paper discussing a quote from El Fili that calls on youth to sacrifice themselves to save their homeland from cruelty and embody the vigor, purity, and enthusiasm lost in older generations. The youth symbolize the future, strength, passion, and the dream to achieve what older generations could not.

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Name: Jenny Rose J.

Bautista Course & Year: BSIT - 2

Life and Works of Jose Rizal


Activity 1

1. Compare and contrast and/or changes in Rizal’s ideas expressed in the Noli and El
Fili.

Noli Me Tangere means "Touch


Me Not" in Latin, El
Filibusterismo means "The Reign
of Greed"
Lit the fire in the Filipinos' hearts
to fight for their freedom Noli highly focuses of the
romance between Maria Clara and
Crisostomo Ibarra while El Fili
highly focuses on how to reach
social reform and reolution.

Similarities
Portrays the discrimination
Differences
Noli was dedicated to the
Philippines, while El Fili was
dedicated to GomBurZa
against Filipinos by the Spaniards
Noli consist of 64 chapters
(including Epilogue) while El Fili
(including Epilogue or
Conclusion) only consists of 39
chapters.
Depicts opposition against the
clergy (politics) and Catholic Noli was written as Rizal thinking
beliefs of reformation, while El Fili was
written as Rizal turned to seek for
a revolution to happen
2. Reaction paper about the selected chapters, discussing the role of the youth in society.

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!”
In the last chapter of El Filibusterismo, the above was mentioned in the English version of the
said novel. In this part of that chapter, the youth is called to be the one to save the motherland
from the cruelness of the world, for the youth have the bravery and determination that the adults
have lost along the way. The youth, as per what Dr. Jose Rizal said, is the hope of the future, and
in this case, as per what I have understood on this part, I youth is seen as what Dr. Jose Rizal
said. The youth is the symbol of the future, without them, no one could possibly continue the
next generation.
In my own interpretation, the youth is also a symbol for strength, because unlike the older
generation, the youth seem to still have that passion, determination, and strength that day by day,
as you grow older, you slowly lose. Another thing that the youth might symbolize is a dream. As
per my experience, the youth, much like me, is expected to continue the dream that the older
generation wasn’t able to achieve, and to be honest, it is a bit understandable, because we, the
new generation of Filipinos, carry the future of both our country and the lives of many Filipinos,
we represent the modern Filipino.

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