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To My Fellow Children
As Rizal wanted us to love our language because it is one of the portent
symbolizing our Filipino emblem. Rizal's main point of view of writing the
poem To my Fellow Children, is to uplift the spirit of the Filipinos in adoring
our own language because loving and using of one's native tongues was one
of the badges of a true patriot. Loving your own language led to the
fulfillment of the liberty Filipinos were hungry for. Being the youth in today's
era, we must hand in hand corroborate what Rizal believed us to be, that we
are the hopes our motherland. Before being our nation's pride and
representing the Philippines, one should begin at the very start. Patronizing
and inculcating in our soul and mind our language. For language is not only a
communication tool but the expression of one's identity, of one's individual
and social consciousness. Without a common identity, there could be no real
sense of nationhood. Most importantly, Filipino, or native tongue is a very
valuable possession of our own country that Filipinos must be really proud of.
symbols in the poem is the flame in which the moth is willing to die for. It
implies that there are things that certain people are willing to do even if it
may cost them their lives. The cockroach in the poem represents all the
people who live their lives very carefully to ensure a long one. The moth
symbolizes all the people who don't. Both the views of the cockroach and the
moth are trying to accomplish the same thing: a better life. The cockroach
wishes to live his life with half of the happiness but twice as long, while the
moth, on the opposite, would rather live its life to the fullest even if it means
to be cut short.