Class Activity Read Jose Rizal's Brindis Speech: N-Luna-And-Felix-Resurreccion-Hidalg

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“What are the essential topics, issues, and lessons in studying the novels of Rizal?”
Dr. Jose Rizal is known to be an exemplar of truth and justice when it comes to the
rights of every Filipino, especially during the Spanish revolution. He becomes a model of
piety and ignites the mind of the youth to freedom and nationalism. His ideas are broad and
are explained in a manner where he articulates and questions the minds of the reader, he
challenges us to whether we do something about the truth that he just exposed or are we
going to keep our mouth shut in order to continue living in peace, or if it is really peaceful.
For us, we do believe that every topic, novels and speeches of Rizal are important ways of
reminding us of our history and how it continues to link us into fighting for what we are
entitled in the first place as a human, and most especially, as a Filipino. His lectures,
although can be thought provoking and blunt, are the unheard words of common Filipinos
who are afraid to go against the dictators as they fear trial and death like what had
happened to Dr. Jose Rizal, he voiced out the deepest desire of not only the illustrados but
the union of Filipinos who wished to break the chain of injustice in their motherland. The
issues and the topics he exposed without fear of execution brought us here, to where we
stand as an independent country, we give thanks not only to Dr. Jose Rizal but all the
people behind the Filipino revolution that brought us here today. We must not forget our
past because it will continuously remind us that we have once tried and fought against the
enemy, and we can always do that in order to protect the people and the country. We live
not for ourselves anymore but for the future generation where they can have the taste of
freedom that we continue to fight for. Let us not put aside the past even if it is cruel or even
if our ancestors had to shed blood in order to fight for the freedom, swallow that until you
realize why you are born as a Filipino and what is your duty to your country. For me, the
most essential topics and lessons that I can glean from Rizal's novels is While we do not
live in such tumultuous times as Rizal's, it is important to keep distractions away from every
workday. Rizal was so focused on the work that he did not allow loved ones or even his own
preferences or emotions come in the way.
“Why is Rizal hesitant of the complete autonomy of the country based on his thoughts?”
Rizal is hesitant to continue with the revolution because he believed that Filipinos at that
time were not ready. By what he meant not ready, it is about not having enough supplies, proper
execution of plans and also he believed that these revolutionists are being swayed by their
emotions because of continued oppression to the lowly and the common. He predicted the
future of our country in his essay “Philippine Century Hence” that the Philippines would
somehow be equal to Spain and would remain as Spanish colony and the American would
emerge as a new colonial power in Asia. Although Rizal is against injustices and cruel treatment
of the foreign people to his motherland, he deemed that revolution is so disastrous and absurd
that it will be impossible to take down the enemy by sacrificing lives. He rejected the plan of the
Katipunan as he think that it would be a suicide because we are not yet prepared for a
bloodshed battle against the armed party of the Spanish government. Rizal believes that the
action of revolution must come from above and so he fought using his brain by writing and
exposing the Spanish government which in the end, led him to his death. Rizal in his essay
“Filipino Farmers” expressed his devastation for the situation of the poor farmers where their
enemy is not only the drought, the flood or the fest but their biggest rival is the tyrant and
robbers in the body of the Spanish government. Aside from these people are the worst of them
all, which are the greedy Filipinos themselves who outsmart the farmers by tricking them and
harvesting more money and crops than those who really worked hard for the crops. If only we
give priority to these people who feed the whole nation and improve their lives somehow by
providing them the seeds to plant and let them trade the crops on their own price, then none of
them will be taken advantage of. Rizal himself was reluctant to join the revolution because he
did not advocate a revolution that was bound to fail. Rizal, however, was revolutionary in his
actions and writings. He paid the ultimate price for this when he was executed for treason
against Spain.

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