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    Rizal's own story of his life
    Rizal's own story of his life
    Rizal's own story of his life
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    Rizal's own story of his life

    By Jose Rizal

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    Release dateSep 15, 2022
    ISBN8596547377269
    Rizal's own story of his life
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    Jose Rizal

    José Rizal (1861-1896) was a Filipino poet, novelist, sculptor, painter, and national hero. Born in Calamba, Rizal was raised in a mestizo family of eleven children who lived and worked on a farm owned by Dominican friars. As a boy, he excelled in school and won several poetry contests. At the University of Santo Tomas, he studied philosophy and law before devoting himself to ophthalmology upon hearing of his mother’s blindness. In 1882, he traveled to Madrid to study medicine before moving to Germany, where he gave lectures on Tagalog. In Heidelberg, while working with pioneering ophthalmologist Otto Becker, Rizal finished writing his novel Touch Me Not (1887). Now considered a national epic alongside its sequel The Reign of Greed (1891), Touch Me Not is a semi-autobiographical novel that critiques the actions of the Catholic Church and Spanish Empire in his native Philippines. In 1892, he returned to Manila and founded La Liga Filipina, a secret organization dedicated to social reform. Later that year, he was deported to Zamboanga province, where he built a school, hospital, and water supply system. During this time, the Katipunan, a movement for liberation from Spanish rule, began to take shape in Manila, eventually resulting in the Philippine Revolution in 1896. For his writing against colonialism and association with active members of Katipunan, Rizal was arrested while traveling to Cuba via Spain. On December 30, 1896, he was executed by firing squad on the outskirts of Manila and buried in an unmarked grave.

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      Rizal's own story of his life - Jose Rizal

      José Rizal

      Rizal's own story of his life

      EAN 8596547377269

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: [email protected]

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER I

      My Birth and Earliest Years in Kalamba

      CHAPTER II

      My Schooling in Biñan

      CHAPTER III

      My Daily Life in Biñan

      CHAPTER IV

      The Injustice Done My Mother

      CHAPTER V

      A Student in Manila

      MY FIRST READING LESSON

      MY CHILDHOOD IMPRESSIONS

      THE SPANISH SCHOOLS OF MY BOYHOOD

      THE TURKEY THAT CAUSED THE KALAMBA LAND TROUBLE

      FROM JAPAN TO ENGLAND ACROSS AMERICA

      MY DEPORTATION TO DAPITAN

      ADVICE TO A NEPHEW

      FILIPINO PROVERBS

      FILIPINO PUZZLES

      RIZAL’S DON’TS

      HYMN TO LABOR

      MEMORY GEMS FROM RIZAL’S WRITINGS

      MARIANG MAKILING

      A CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF JOSÉ RIZAL

      A READING LIST

      Diploma of Merit won by José Rizal

      PHILIPPINE NATIONAL HYMN

      HAIL, PHILIPPINES!

      CHAPTER I

      My Birth and Earliest Years in Kalamba

      Table of Contents

      I was born on Wednesday, the nineteenth of June, 1861. It was a few days before the full of the moon. I found myself in a village. I had some slight notions of the morning sun and of my parents. That is as much as I can recall of my baby days.

      The training which I received from my earliest infancy is perhaps what formed my habits. I can recall clearly my first gloomy nights, passed on the azotea of our house. They seem as yesterday! They were nights filled with the poetry of sadness and seem near now because at present my days are so sad. On moonlight nights, I took my supper on the azotea. My nurse, who was very fond of me, used to threaten to leave me to a terrible but imaginary being like the bogey of the Europeans if I did not eat.

      I had nine sisters and a brother. Our father was a model parent. He gave us the education which was suitable in a family neither rich nor poor. He was thrifty. By careful saving, he was able to build a stone house. He also bought another house; and he put up a nipa cottage on our plot of irrigated ground. The cottage was shaded by bananas and trees.

      At nightfall, my mother had us all say our prayers together. Then we would go to the azotea or to a window to enjoy the moonlight; and my nurse would tell us stories. Sometimes sad and sometimes gay, nurse’s stories were always oriental in their imagination. In these stories, dead people, gold, and plants on which diamonds grew were all mixed together.

      When I was four years of age, my little sister Concha died, and for the first time I cried because of love and sorrow. Till then I had shed tears only for my own faults, which my loving, prudent mother well knew how to correct.

      I learned to write in my own village. My father looked after my education. He paid an old man, who had been his schoolmate, to teach me the first steps in Latin. This teacher lived in our house till he died, five months later. He had been in almost perfect health and it was at the moment of death that he received extreme unction.

      Mrs. Rizal-Mercado and her two daughters, Saturnina, the eldest, and Trinidad, then a baby

      In June of 1868, I went to Manila with my father. That was just after the birth of Trinidad, the third sister younger than myself. We went in a casco which turned out to be a clumsy boat. I shall not try to tell how happy I was at each new stop on the banks of the Pasig. Beside this same river, a few years later, I was to be very sad. We went to Cainta, Taytay, and Antipolo, and then to Manila. In Santa Ana I visited my eldest sister, Saturnina, who at that time was a student in La Concordia College. Then I returned to my village and remained until

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