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    Rizal Poem Reacrtion Paper

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    The document summarizes key details about the house of Jose Rizal in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines. It was a typical upper-class Filipino stone house from the Spanish colonial era, with an adobe stone and brick lower floor and a hardwood second floor. The windows had capiz shell panes. The ground floor served as a stable, while the upper floor had living quarters including a large library containing 1,000 books, the largest in Calamba at the time. The house layout included bedrooms, salas, and an old well, with the master bedroom being the largest and containing the four-poster bed where Rizal was born.

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    The document summarizes key details about the house of Jose Rizal in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines. It was a typical upper-class Filipino stone house from the Spanish colonial era, with an adobe stone and brick lower floor and a hardwood second floor. The windows had capiz shell panes. The ground floor served as a stable, while the upper floor had living quarters including a large library containing 1,000 books, the largest in Calamba at the time. The house layout included bedrooms, salas, and an old well, with the master bedroom being the largest and containing the four-poster bed where Rizal was born.

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    The document summarizes key details about the house of Jose Rizal in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines. It was a typical upper-class Filipino stone house from the Spanish colonial era, with an adobe stone and brick lower floor and a hardwood second floor. The windows had capiz shell panes. The ground floor served as a stable, while the upper floor had living quarters including a large library containing 1,000 books, the largest in Calamba at the time. The house layout included bedrooms, salas, and an old well, with the master bedroom being the largest and containing the four-poster bed where Rizal was born.

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    Rizal Poem Reacrtion Paper

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    Patleen Monica Micua
    The document summarizes key details about the house of Jose Rizal in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines. It was a typical upper-class Filipino stone house from the Spanish colonial era, with an adobe stone and brick lower floor and a hardwood second floor. The windows had capiz shell panes. The ground floor served as a stable, while the upper floor had living quarters including a large library containing 1,000 books, the largest in Calamba at the time. The house layout included bedrooms, salas, and an old well, with the master bedroom being the largest and containing the four-poster bed where Rizal was born.

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    Name; MICUA, Patleen Monica N.

    Subject: LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL

    To My Fellow Children
    By: Jose Rizal

    Whenever people of a country truly love


    The language which by heav’n they were taught to use,
    That country also surely liberty pursues
    as does the bird which soars to freer space above.

    For language is the final judge and referee


    Upon the people in the land where it holds away;
    In truth our human race resembles in this way
    The other living being born in liberty.

    Whoever knows not how to love his native tongue


    Is worse than any beast or evil smelling fish.
    To make our language richer ought to be our wish
    The same as any mother loves to feed her young.

    Tagalog and the Latin language are the same


    And English and Castilian and the angels’ tongue,
    And God, whose watchful care o’er all is flung,
    Has given us His blessing in the speech we claim.

    Our mother tongue, like all the highest that we know


    Had alphabet and letters of its very own;
    But these were lost – by furious waves were overthrown
    Like bancas in the stormy sea, long years ago.
    First Stanza:
    First Stanza tells that Rizal considered the Native Language which is the Filipino Language as blessing
    from heaven. And when we, the Filipinos of the entire country will use, embrace and love our own
    language we will pursue liberty because that time Filipinos were colonized by Spaniards and we force
    to speak Spanish. Rizal state about the bird and compared it in situation that we should be free in
    speaking in our language not just like a bird that is in the cage of the colonization of Spaniards.

    Second Stanza:
    Second Stanza, Rizal tells the language will be the key to liberty even if Filipinos born in the slavery of
    the Spaniards. We should use the language and stick on our mind that a Filipino should be a Filipino
    heart and a Filipino language as well. The love and support of our language will become the symbol of
    being a Filipino.

    Third Stanza:
    Third stanza, Rizal compared a Filipino who doesn't love his language as a worse than a smelly fish.
    There are some Filipinos who forgot to love and use the language because when Spaniards colonized
    the entire country the Spanish language is being used in educations, religious activities and in
    government. The language needs to use to become richer, just like a mother who knows how to care
    and fed her young. Rizal compared the language as a helpless child that must be nurtured in order to
    grow and flourish.

    Fourth Stanza:
    Fourth stanza, According to Rizal the Filipino language are just like the language of Latin and other
    languages even the angels language. Don’t underestimate the Filipino language because no language is
    greater than others because God give language as a gift to be able to use in communications in every
    lands and nations.

    Fifth Stanza:
    Fifth stanza, according to Rizal language has letters and characters of its own, similar to the way other
    ‘’elite tounges’’ do. Rizal is referring to ALIBATA which is the old Filipino alphabet whose characters
    are unique but this were lost like overthrown by strong waves because of the colonization of Spaniards.
    We should know how to value our own language just like Rizal who wrote this poem for us to know.
    We should rise up and be proud for being a Filipino blood. Language is not just a tool for
    communications because it is also serve as One’s Identity.
    The House of Jose Rizal

    The Mansion House of Jose Rizal is located at Calamba, Laguna, Philippines. It is a Stone House Type
    and an Upper-class Filipino built during the Spanish Colonial Era and typically rectangular shape in
    plan. The lower portion of the house or the 1st floor is mae up of Adobe stone and brick while the upper
    portion or the 2nd floor consists of hardwood. The windows are made up of Capiz shells. The exterior
    walls are painted in white and the roof is gable type roof and constructed of red ceramic tile.

    The ground floor of the house served as a stable horses and carriages. The upper floor served as the
    Family’s Living quarters and has living room, dining area, bathroom and library. A Caida or the
    Francisco Mercado Library consisting of 1000 books. Their Library is the largest library in Calamba
    that time. The Library is adjacent to their formal Dining Area serves as the Visitors Area. The Caida is
    connected to Sala, which leads to the three bedrooms. The boys room is for Jose and Paciano, the girls
    room are not enough for them to stay in a time because they are 9 girls. But the eldest are studying in
    Manila, they stayed there for a while and the Master Bedroom are for their parents. The biggest among
    rooms is the Master bedroom contains four-poster bed where Rizal was born. Beyond the Sala is the
    Informal old well, one of the surviving features of the original house.

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