Chapter 14

The Reluctant Revolutionary

“The word filibustero...the

Spaniards use to describe

anyone who is a suspect of

revolutionary activities.”

- Rizal (in a letter to Blumentritt)

Nag-drama si Rizal

nakatakas

On and off

L.Q.??

June 11, 1890 ; few days of being 29

y/o

BIRTHDAY-BIRTHDAY

DIN PAG MAY TIME XD

2 months

Relatives &

Friends

DEAD

“That is why I want to finish the

second part of Noli at all costs.”

-Rizal

infidelity & humilation

Leonor Rivera

in Madrid

1 month later

[Bags packed ] & [resigned]

March 29, 1981

“I have finished my book. Oh, I have

not expressed in it any idea of

revenge against my enemies but

only for the good of those who

suffer, for the rights of the Tagalog

humankind.”

-Rizal wrote to Blumentritt from

Biarritz

30th of May

-completed the final revision

wrote to Basa in HK

-25 chapters can be printed

ready-to-go

?money

Basa can have it in July

“Who was going to pay for the

printers?”

-Basa to Rizal

2 weeks later

“I am now negotiating with a

publishing house . . . I do not

know whether [the novel] will be

printed here [in Belgium] or in

Spain.”

-Rizal to Basa

...3 chapters left to revise...

Direction: Fill in the blanks.

1. If not published:___________ ;

if published:____________.

Direction: Fill in the blanks.

1. If not published: uwian na ;

if published: wait to come off the

press.

I won’t give up

-money to Rizal

I won’t give up

-money to Rizal

Rizal left Paris for Brussels (cheaper to

live)

A small room w/ Jose Alejandrino

Share-share

DIN PAG MAY TIME XD

Alejandrino = maliit na Alejandro

Jose Alejandrino

- an engineering student – general of

revolution

-as admiring as Viola

Alejandrino = Viola

Woohoo!!! Boo!!!

Cash

Alejandrino = Viola

Woohoo!!! Boo!!!

Ca sh

Paciano

HopeNO

RIZAL – PIGGY BANK – PRINTING

OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO – EARLY

JULY 1891

Three months of no money

recieved...

Pawned everything – keep on

printing

countrymen...”

-joined forces to make my life

miserable

Broken Promises

- of subsidy (regular allowance)

-wealthy friends (drawing lang

ang mga promises)

“...I recieved not a centavo...”

“I would feel like sending our countrymen and all the rest to the devil” – Rizal

“Somtimes I feel like burning my

manuscript . . . Keep my books

absolutely secret; the friars might

smell it out . . .and make ready

for it”

-Rizal

Fili came off slowly

6th of August – 112 pages only?!?!

“If I don’t finish is here it will never be

finished” -Rizal

HAPPY RIZAL

18th of September

-Rizal sent a book to Basa

by November

-800 pages in HK

Viola to the rescue!!!

a.k.a. Valentin

Ventura

Noli – one chapter had been dropped

Noli – one chapter had been dropped

Fili – should be longer than Noli

Noli – 64 pages

Fili – 38 pages

(kulang daw kasi sa budget)

12 expatriates judged the novel

“Fili is superior to the Noli but left

the problem withot solution” –Jaena

“Fili is inferior to the Noli” – Del Pilar

“Fili is more profound and perfect

than Noli”

12 expatriates judged the novel

“Fili is superior to the Noli but left

the problem withot solution” –Jaena

“Fili is inferior to the Noli” – Del Pilar

“Fili is more profound and perfect

than Noli” –RIZAL XD

“what is a man to do when he is denied justice, take the law into his hands or wait for the Spain to give him his rights?”

*the whole point of the novel

Fili

Fili = Reluctant Revolutionary,

Fili = Reluctant

Revolutionary, how?

No solution except

independence;

“bloody apparitions” a succes of

a revolution may hinge.

BUT... Try to remember this

failures of Simon

- Maria Clara’s death (personal

demoralisation)

- Isagani’s intervention (to stop the

bomb) to save the unfaithful Paulita

In real life...Rizal’s life

*Novales’s Coup

- his own brother refused to

surrender it.

*1872 Mutiny

- fireworks (fall alarm = death)

“I do not mean to say, that our

freedom must be won at the point

of the sword . . .but I do say that

we must win our freedom by

deserving it”

-Father Florentino

(while Simon lies dying)

Not yet ready for revolution; not yet

ready for independence

...because they are still

unworthy of it...

-Rizal

The Reluctant Revolutionary

JOSE P. RIZAL

...a reformer who no longer believed that

reforms would come...

...shunned by his supporters in

Manila...

...mocked by his fellows in Madrid...

“The sun comes out again, for

all, all has been sacrificed and

nothing remains but ruins. Thanks

be to God! We have lost everything

and have nothing more to lose.

Now things must get better . . .”

-Rizal