GEC 109

(Life and Works of Jose Rizal)

2nd Semester, A.Y. 2021 – 2022

Chapter 3. Life of Jose Rizal

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Exercise 1. Table of Influences (15points)

Complete the table below by identifying the people that influenced the growth and
development of young Rizal’s character. Give a short description in how these people
influences Rizal. And lastly, identify if their influence is a nature or nurture.

Name of person/
His/ her influence Nature or Nurture
individual

As he wanted to broaden
Rizal's perspective and
find opportunities for his
Paciano Mercado abilities, he encouraged Nature
him to go to Europe. He
was also the protector
and defender of his
brother
She was the one who
was closest to his child's
heart. The loss of his
younger sister led him to
Concha cry tears of love and grief Nature
for the first time, since he
had only shed them out
of stubbornness.

She was her teacher. Nature

She taught Rizal the
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value of education. She
pushed him to write
poetry to communicate
his feelings and
emotions. Basically, she
changed Rizal's viewpoint
 and changed his heart.
Jose Rizal was driven by
a desire to implement
reforms and achieve
equality for the Filipino
people. He felt it
Gomez, Burgos and necessary to avenge the
Zamora death of those who had Nurture
given their lives for
reform after observing the
abuses. Had it not been
for the events of 1872, I
would have been a
Jesuit, Jose Rizal said.
Under him, Rizal suffered
beatings and humiliation.
Because of this he has
established his
Justiniano Aquino Cruz intellectual superiority, he Nurture
usually won classes
contests, which made
people envy him and
others pity him.
Pedro made fun of him
for the different and
repetitive answers he had
given on his first day in
class. Making fun of him;
jeering at him and giving
him unpleasant
Pedro (The Nurture
nicknames, and taking
Schoolmaster’s Son) satisfaction in it. The fact
that Rizal is smaller than
him doesn't matter and
that anything can be
achieved no matter how
big or small one is 

Rizal received lessons in

Leon Monroy reading, writing, and Latin Nurture
basics from him. Rizal's
apostolate failed to reflect
 a real social
consciousness, and this
explains much about the
puzzling absence of any
social consciousness.

Exercise 2. Throwback Thursday (10pts)

Direction: Draw or post a photo (real old photo) from your childhood which reminds you
of a common experience that you and the young Rizal experience. Give a description of
the photo (year, location, occasion/ event it portrayed), and explain how does it relate to
the childhood of the young Rizal. Post it in our page and use the hashtag - #throwback