MARK JUSTIN G.

DEROY
BSBA-MARKETING 2-2

MODULE 3 ASSESSMENT

Activity 1 Essay

1. Enumerate and explain briefly the importance and similarities of your family and parents to Rizal’s
family and parents.

The Rizal family belonged to the ‘Principalia’ an aristocratic town of distinguished families. By
frugal living, hard and honest work, Rizal's parents were able to live well. Their children were studying in
colleges in Manila. They participated in all social and religious affairs in the community. They were
gracious and hospitable to all visitors and guests during the town fiesta and other holidays. The Rizal
family had a simple, contented and happy life and was intimately close. Don Francisco and Doña Teodora
loved their children, but they never spoiled them. They were strict parents and they trained their children
to love God, to behave well, to be obedient and to respect people especially the old folks. When the
children got into mischief, they were given a good spanking because they believed in the saying "Spare
the rod and spoil the child." Jose Rizal described his father in his diary: "My father was a model of fathers
had given us an education commensurate with our small fortune; and through thrift he was able to build a
stone house; erect a little nipa house in the middle of our orchard under the shade of some trees and
others.” Rizal lovingly described his mother: "My mother is a woman of more than ordinary culture; she
knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I. She even corrected my poems and gave me wise
advises when I was studying rhetoric. She is a mathematician and has read many books." Both parents
greatly influenced Rizal as shown in his character. "From his father he inherited a profound sense of
dignity and self-respect, seriousness and from his mother the dreamer and bravery for sacrifices and her
literary prowess'".

2. Explain the important lesson that we can learn from ‘the story of the moth’ particularly in dealing with
our parents’ advice and reminders.

“As she put me to bed, my mother said: see to it that you do not behave like the young moth.
Don’t be disobedient, or you may get burnt as it did, I do not know whether I answered or not.”

The story revealed to me the things until then unknown. Moths no longer were, for me, insignificant
insects. Moths talked, they knew how to warn. They advised just like my mother. The light seemed to me
more beautiful. It had grown more dazzling and more attractive. I knew why the moths circled the flame.
The tragic fate of the young moth left a deep impact on Rizal's mind, and like that young moth he was
fated to die as a martyr for a noble Ideal.

3. Explain the message of the poem, ‘To My Fellow Children’ giving importance to nationalism and
national identity.

This poem reveals Rizal's earliest nationalist sentiment. In poetic verses, he proudly proclaimed that a
people who truly love their native language will surely strive for liberty like "the bird which soars to freer
space above” and that Tagalog is equal to Latin, English, Spanish and any other languages.