Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan
-
Upload
edmundo-dantes -
Category
Education
-
view
1.607 -
download
14
Transcript of Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan
![Page 1: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Chapter 2Childhood Years in Calamba
Biñan
![Page 2: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Calamba, the Hero’s Town• Calamba was an hacienda
town which belonged to the Dominican Order, which also owned all the lands around it. It is a picturesque town nestling on a verdant plain covered with irrigated ricefields and sugar-lands.
![Page 3: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Mount Makiling
![Page 4: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Laguna de Bay
• An inland lake of songs and emerald waters beneath the canopy of azure skies.
![Page 5: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Island of Talim
![Page 6: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Antipolo
• Famous mountain shrine of the miraculous Lady of Peace and Good Voyage.
![Page 7: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Earliest Childhood Memories• The first memory of Rizal was his happy days
in the family garden when he was 3 years old.
• Second childhood memory of Rizal was the daily Angelus Prayer.
• Third childhood memory was the nocturnal walk in the town, when there was a moon.
![Page 8: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
The Hero’s First Sorrow• In 1865, Concha (Concepcion) died of
sickness at the age of three.
Devoted Son of the Church • At the age of three, he began to take part
in the family prayers.
• When he was five years old, he was able to read haltingly the Spanish family Bible.
![Page 9: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
• He loved to go to church, to pray, to take part in novenas, and to join the religious processions.
• He was so seriously devout that he was launghingly called Manong Jose by the Hermanos and Hermanas Terceras.
• The scholarly Father Leoncio Lopez, the town priest that he used to visit and listen to his stimulating opinions on current events and sound philosophy of life.
![Page 10: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
• Jose learned to write and read thru a private tutor Maestro Celestino and the second Maestro Lucas Padua.
• Leon Monroy a former classmate of Rizal’s Father became the boy’s tutor
![Page 11: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Pilgrimage to Antipolo• On June 6, 1868, Jose and his father left
Calamba to go on a pilgrimage to Antipolo, in order to fulfill his mother’s vow which was made when Jose was born.
• After praying at the shrine of the Virgin of Antipolo, Jose and his father went to Manila. They visited Saturnina, who was then a boarding student at La Concordia College in Santa Ana.
![Page 12: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Artistic Talent• Since early childhood
Rizal revealed his God-given talent for art.
• At the age of five, he began to make sketches with his pencil and to mould in clay and wax objects which attracted his fancy.
![Page 13: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
First Poem by Rizal• Since early boyhood he
had scribbled verses on loose sheets of paper and on the textbooks of his sisters.
• At the age of eight, Rizal wrote his first poem in the native language entitled Sa Aking Mga Kababata (To My Fellow Children)
![Page 14: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Rizal as Boy Magician• Since early manhood Rizal had been interested in
magic. He learned various tricks such as making a coin appear or disappear in his fingers and making a handkerchief vanish in thin air.
• He entertained his town folks with magic-lantern exhibitions.
• He also gained skill in manipulating marionettes (puppet show).
![Page 15: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
• In later years when he attained manhood, he continued his keen predilection for magic. He read many books on magic and attended the performances of the famous magicians of the world.
• In chapter XVII and XVIII of his second novel, El Filibusterismo (Treason), he revealed his wide knowledge of magic.
![Page 16: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Influences on the Hero’s Boyhood1. Heredity Influence: • Malayan ancestors- love for freedom,
innate desire to travel and indomitable courage.• Chinese ancestors- serious nature,
frugality, patience and love for children.• Spanish ancestors- elegance of bearing,
sensitivity to insult and gallanty to ladies.
![Page 17: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
• Father- Profound sense of respect, the love for work and the habit of independent thinking.
• Mother- religious nature, the spirit of self-sacrifice and the passion for arts and literature.
2. Environmental Influences:• The scenic beauties of Calamba and the
beautiful garden of the Rizal family- inborn artistic and literary talents of Jose Rizal.
![Page 18: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
• The religious atmosphere at his home- religious nature.
• Brother, Paciano- love for freedom and justice.
• Sisters- courteous and kind to women.• Aya (Nurse Maid)- interest in folklore and
legends.• Tito Jose Alberto- artistic ability.• Tito Manuel- frail walking and wrestling.• Tito Gregorio- voracious reading of good
books.
![Page 19: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
• Father Leoncio Lopez- love for scholarship and intellectual honesty.
• Sorrows in his family- character, enabling him to resist blows of adversity in late years.
3. Aid of Divine Providence:• God- versatile gifts of a genius, the vibrant
spirit of nationalism and the valiant heart to sacrifice for a noble cause.
![Page 20: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Biñan Laguna
![Page 21: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Biñan Laguna
• First Teacher in Biñan of Pepe Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz
• Pepe lived in a small hut about 30 meters from the home of the aunt.
• Jose used to wear a sinamay shirt,woven by the skilled hands of the women of Batangas.
• Jose challenged Pedro to a fight• First Painting lesson by a painter Juancho
![Page 22: Rizal Childhood Years in Calamba & Biñan](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061323/58a38aec1a28ab9c7e8b5eb7/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Injustice to Hero’s Mother
• Before June of 1872,tragedy struck the Rizal family.Dona Teodora was suddenly arrested on a malicious charge that she and her brother.
• Jose Alberto wife was poison• Jose Alberto ,a rich Binan ilustrado ,had just
returned from a business trip in Europe. • After arresting Dona Teodora, the sadistic
Spanish Lieutenant forced her to walk from Calamba to Santa Cruz a distance of 50 kilometers.