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RIZAL MIDTERMS CHAPTERS

Memorias de un Estudiante de Manila Chapter 1

 Rizal pen name: P. Jacinto  highlights Rizal's childhood in Calamba


 wrote his own memoirs of his experiences providing a personal description of the
as a student from Binan to Manila in 1872. place including their house and their
 Rizal's own recollection and is a primary lifestyle.
source regarding his childhood days.  Another notable event in the first chapter is
 Reading through the document provides the death of Concha, (Rizal's sister) for
insight to Rizal's sentiments towards love whom Rizal shed his first tears.
and family, as well as to the importance of
Chapter 2
education.
 documents Rizal's first time away from
Exploration: Producing an Autobiography
home when he was sent to study in Binan,
Biographies Laguna, as well as his daily routines as a
student.
are literary works that highlight the life of
 This chapter is full of Rizal's longing for his
certain individuals.
family and his hometown.
- These works, especially autobiographies
Chapter 3
and memoirs, are crucial documents or
sources in writing history especially in  Rizal's memories of the events that
important events like reform and revolution. transpired between the years 1871 and
- Biographies, however, can also be used as 1872 particularly his mother's case.
political tools because some facts may be  This event really devastated Rizal since his
omitted of added in the process of writing. mother was taken away and imprisoned,
leaving them without guidance.
In this sense, writing a biography or memoir can be
both empowering and incriminating. This activity In Chapters 4 and 5
teaches students to appreciate critical thinking in
 Rizal recounts his time as a student in
evaluating facts found in biographies. This also
Manila especially at the Ateneo de
encourages students to reflect on why some
Municipal.
aspects of one person's life are omitted while
 In here, he states the different rules
others are highlighted.
implemented by Ateneo to ensure the
Lesson 6: Memorias de un Estudiante de Manila 33 competitiveness of its students, as well as
the different books that he read, which
 Rizal wrote his memoirs from 1872 to 1881,
influenced his own writing.
 composed of 8 chapters spanning his
 An example is Alexanre Dumas' The Count
childhood to his days as a student in Manila.
of Monte Cristo that became influential to
A full translation of the document was made by the his writing of El Filibusterismo.
Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission and is
available in various sources including books and
online websites.
Chapter 6 - Through his association with German
scholars, he was able to immerse himself in
 Dedicated to Segunda Katigbak, Rizal's first
the potential of the social sciences
love. Rizal, however, remembers this period
especially the discipline of history in
of his life with bitterness.
studying the Filipino past, culture, and
 They were both young and Segunda was
identity.
already engaged to someone else when
they met. April 13, 1887 - he wrote Blumentritt and
mentioned his (Rizal's) objective of establishing a
There were no significant events in Chapter 7
Philippine studies subject or course as a way for
Chapter 8 Filipinos to know themselves.

 Rizal recalls the fable of the lamp. - With the necessary methodological,
 This story is very important since it captures conceptual, and theoretical tools, Rizal
Rizal's symbolic representation of the light. pursued his personal researches about the
Philippine past. During his second sojourn
to Europe, he read various archival
LESSON 7 materials about the Philippines especially
at the British Museum. He read the
Exploration: Philippine Studies accounts of Spanish missionary reports,
Today, Rizal's vision of having a Philippine Studies travel books to the Philippines and
course has already been made a reality through Southeast Asia, and Chinese records from
the efforts of three leading universities in the 13th to 14th century.
country. Some of the notable works he produced in the
- In both the University of the Philippines- social sciences were his annotations of Sucesos de
Diliman (UP Diliman) and De La Salle Las Islas Filipinas by Antonio de Morga, The
University (DLSU), graduate degrees in Indolence of the Filipinos, and his planned
Master of Arts (MA) and Doctor of organization:
Philosophy (PhD), Philippine Studies and Association Internationale des Philippinestes
academic journals on Philippine and Asian
studies have already been established. aimed to organize different conferences
Ateneo de Manila University also has its about the Philippines with History as a central
own Philippine Studies Journal. theme.

Fedor Jagor - a naturalist who travelled to Through his conceptualization of the Association
Southeast Asia; and Internationale de Philippinestes and his planned
conference, Rizal divided Philippine history into
Rudolf Virchow - president of the Berlin Society for three periods, namely:
Anthropology, Ethnology, and Prehistory.
1. precolonial Philippines,
Aside from these individuals, Rizal was also able to 2. the loss of Philippine Autonomy from 1521
associate himself with academic organizations in to 1808, and finally
Germany such as the Geographical Society in 3. from 1808 to the Cavite Mutiny in 1872.
Berlin and the Anthropological Society founded by
Rudolf Virchow and Adolf Bastian in the 1880's. Historians today refer to this type of periodization
as the: Tripartite View of Philippine history.
During the formation of the revolutionary
movement under Andres Bonifacio, the
Katipuneros also incorporated the tripartite view
in the KKK's initiation process, giving it a more
revolutionary and localized character by calling:
1. the pre-colonial period as Liwanag,
2. the Spanish colonial period as Dilim, and
3. the period of liberation from Spain as
Muling Liwanag.

- Prospective members of the Katipunan had


to memorize this before they were accepted
in the group.
Rizal's Scholarship, the Propaganda Movement, and
the Suffering of the Filipinos:

 Rizal's being a doctor also greatly


influenced his writing and analysis of the
situation of the Philippines.
 It was evident in his discussions about the
Philippines in his essay: The Indolence of
the Filipinos where he frequently referred
to the country as a body that could
experience sickness and decay, but could
also be healed.

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