The stillborn child of Rizal was actually buried near Rizal's home in Dapitan where he was exiled. Rizal actually burned that house when he was leaving Dapitan for Cuba. But who nows! we might have another type of Da "inci Code boo#$lm claiming Rizal's direct line of grandchildren are living somewhere in the %hilippines. Though there are still descendants of Rizal still living but these stemmed from Rizal's sisters and other relatives.&ose Rizal's one and only big brother! %aciano! was the 'uiet of the two Rizal boys but was the most passionate one in liberating the %hilippines from (pain. )e was actually the one pitted to go abroad to pursue an education but he saw in his little brother &ose the intelligence and charismatic personality which will bene$t the country. %aciano opted to stay and loo after the family. Within the plot are episodes and images, which, if they do not improve the unity of the novel, effectively carry out Rizal's purposes in writing it. The scene in the cockpit sarcastically portrays the humiliating effects of the passion for gambling. The vivid Alloul's !ay dialogue of the Tertiaries on the gaining of indulgence is an unforgettable condemnation of fanaticism and superstition. The fiesta sermon of "ray !amaso, elo#uently protests against the vulgar ignorance and hypocritical religious tyranny of the friars.$n these episodes perhaps, rather than in the novel as a whole, lie the book's power. The ultimate message is not always clearly spelled out, but the abuses and defects ofthe colonial regime are e%plicitly revealed. The discussions of &lias and $barra disclose possible solutions, and though Rizal is careful not to go for revolution, the threat is unmistakable if radical reforms are not forthcoming.Rizal's book persistently unmasks contemporary paniards in the 'hilippines of everykind. The corruption and brutality of the civil guard drive good men to outlawry rather than reduce banditry. The administration crawls with self(seekers, out to maketheir fortune at the e%pense of the "ilipinos, so that the few officials who are honest and sincere are unable to overcome the treacherous workings of the system, and their efforts to help the country often end up in frustration or in self(ruin.The friars have made the )atholic religion an instrument for enriching and perpetuating themselves in power by seeking to mire ignorant "ilipinos in fanaticism and superstition instead of teaching them true )atholicism, by controlling the government, by opposing all progress and by persecuting the "ilipino ilustrado, unless they make themselves their servile flatterers.Rizal does not, however, spare his fellow countrymen. The superstitious and hypocritical fanaticism of many who consider themselves religious people, the ignorance, corruption, and brutality of the "ilipino civil guards, the passion for gambling unchecked by the thought of duty and responsibility, the servility of the wealthy "ilipino towards friars and government officials, the ridiculous efforts of "ilipinos to dissociate themselves from their fellowmen or to lord it over them (( all these are ridiculed in the novel. *evertheless, Rizal clearly implies that many of these failings are traceable to association with the paniard, or to the misguided policy of the government and the #uestionable practices of the friars.+et, Rizal balances the national portrait by highlighting the virtues and good #ualitiesof the unspoiled "ilipino, the modesty and devotion of the "ilipino woman, the unstinting hospitality of the "ilipino family, the devotion of parents to their children and children to their parents, the deep sense of gratitude, the solid common sense ofthe untutored "ilipino peasant.The *oli is, therefore, not merely an attack on the panish colonial regime- it is a charter of nationalism. $t calls on the "ilipino to recover his self(confidence, to appreciate his own worth, to return to the heritage of his ancestors, to assert himselfas the e#ual of the paniard. $t insists on the need of education, of dedication to the country, of absorbing aspects of foreign cultures that would enhance the native traditions.