Home Life of

Rizals
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Andrea Nicole M. Aureada

John Jay B. Bonagua
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 The Rizal Ancestral House.
● The Rizal family was one of the largest stone houses in Calamba during
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● Its classic architecture was called "bahay-bato” two-story stone structure,

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rectangular, built of adobe stone and interior hard wood. and roofed with red
clay tiles
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 The upper story was the family's living. The ground floor the
storage and garage for the horse The large orchard of tropical fruit
trees at the back was planted with atis, balimbing, chico, macopa,
papaya, santol, tamarind, etc. Therec was plenty of livestock like pigs,
turkey and chicken.
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 ● Dr. Rafael Palma. one of Rizal' biographers. described it thus:
"The house was high and sumptuous. a solid and massive earthquake-proof
structure with sliding shell windows. Thick of lime end stone hounded the
first floor, the second floor was madec entirety of Wood except for the roof,
which was of red tile. in the style of the buildings in Manila at that time. . . At
the back there was an azotea (terrace) and a wide, deep cistern to hold rain
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water for home use.”

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 Home life of Rizals
 
Like Filipino custom, family ties were exceedingly and they shared regular meals and religious
rituals.
Francisco and Teodora loved their children, but did not spoil them.
They were strict and trained their children to
fear God, to be to be well-mannered, to be obedient
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elders and respect others.
Whenever the children, including Jose, got into mischief. they were given a good spanking.
Evidently, they believed in the
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maxim: "Spare the rod and spoil the child."

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 ● Under the very religious life under Spain, daily life was regulated by church
rituals. They literally lived the rhythm set by the pealing of the church bells
(bajo la campana).
● The church bells called the town folk to mass, prayer, and special occasions.
● They attended daily mass at the parish church in the morning, including
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Sundays and Holidays.
● At nights, the bells pealed the call to curfew and prayer at 6pm, and recited
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the angelus and rosary. After family prayers, all children performed the mano
po hand gestures to the elders.
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 Childhood in Calamba
A poem of Calamba. In 1876, when he was 15 years old and a lonely student in the
Ateneo de Manila, Rizal wrote a homesick poem about his hometown. Un
Recuerdo a Mi Pueblo (To My Hometown), reveals how he expressed his
introverted emotions with remarkable literary
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skill:
When early childhood’s happy days
In memory I see once more
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Along the lovely verdant shore

That meets a gently murmuring sea:
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 When I recall the whisper soft The stormy waters rests awhile;
Of zephyrs dancing on my brow When from the flowers there
With cooling sweetness, even now, Softly breathes
New luscious is born in me. A bouquet ravishingly sweet,
Out-poured the new
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When I behold the lily white to meet,
That sways to do the wind’s command, As on us she begins to smile.
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While gently sleeping on the sand

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 With sadness I recall. . . Recall
Thy face, in precious infancy,
Oh mother, friend most dear
To me warm
Who give to life a wondrous
My joy, my family, my boon,
besides the freshly cool lagoon,
The spot for which my heart beats
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Charm Ah yes! My footsteps insecure

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I yet recall a village plain In your dark forests deeply sank;

And there by every river’s bank
I found refreshment and delight;
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 Within that rustic temple prayed Ah, never in your refuge could
With childhood’s simple faith A mortal by regret be smitten
Unfeigned And while upon your sky of blue
While cooling breezes, pure, I gaze, no love nor tenderness
Unstained Could fail, for here on nature’s
Would send my heart on dress c
Rapturous flight My happiness itself was written.
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I saw the maker in the grandeur

Of your ancient hoary wood.
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 Ah, tender childhood, lovely town Alas, farewell! Eternal vigil I keep
Rich fount of my felicities, For thy peace, thy bliss, and
Oh those harmonious melodies tranquility,
Which put to flight all dismal O Genius of good, so kind!
Hours Give me these gifts,
Come back to my heart once With charity
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More
Come back, gentle-hours, I yearn! These are my fervent vows,
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Come back as the birds return, To thee I cease not to sigh

At the budding of the flowers! These to learn, and I call to the sky
To have thy sincerity
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 Earliest Childhood Memories

● In his Childhood memoirs, Rizal recounted anecdotes and

memories of his childhood.
● His earliest memory was being in the family garden when he was
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three years old. Rizal was frail, sickly boy, and stunted in growth.
Hence, his parents gave him special care.
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● He recalled vividly the natural sights and sounds around him at age
of three. From his nipa hut, he gazed at the native birds and
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listened ‘ with wonder and joy’ to their twilight songs.

 ● His mother gathered the children in the house by the nightfall, to pray the
angelus. He liked the happy moonlit nights when they played at the azotea
terrace after the nightly rosary.

● The aya told the children enchanting stories about fairies, tales of buried
treasure, and tree blooming with diamonds.
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an enduring interest in legends and folklores. And also threathened Rizal that
maybe, the asuang, the nuno, the tigbalang, or the turbaned bumbay might
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take him away.

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 ● Another memory was their moonlit stroll. His aya walk in the
moonlight by the river, where trees cast scary shadows on the
bank. Rizal wrote, “Thus my heart fed on somber and melancholy
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thoughts so that even while still a child. I already wandered on
wings of fantasy in the high regions of the unknown.”
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 First sad memory
First sad memory. Of his siters, Jose was closest to his sister Concha
(Conception), who was only a year younger. Unfortunately, Concha got sick and
died in 1865, at three years old. Jose tookc it especially hard “when I was four
years old” he wrote, “I lost my little sister Concha, and then for the first time I
shed tears caused by love and grief”
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 Devoted son of the church
Rizal grew up a good Catholic because his mother was a devoted Catholic.
She taught him the Catholic prayers, to go to church, take part in novenas, and
join religious processions. When a fiesta sponsor saw him looking devout, he
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teased him as “Manong Jose” (Pious Jose). He visited Fr. Leoncio Lopez, the
Filipino parish priest, and listened to his opinions on current events and on life.
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 Pilgrimage to Antipolo
On June 6, 1868, Jose and his father left Calamba to go to a pilgrimage to
Antipolo, to fulfill his mother’s vow when Jose was born. Dona Teodora herself
could not accompany them because she chad just given birth to Trinidad. It was
Jose’s first trip outside the Calamba, and he was excited
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 Talent for art and literature
Rizal had exceptional artistic and literary talents. He inclined towards art and
writing because he was an introvert, who preferred much time alone. In fact, he
enjoyed solitary activities, like writing, observing
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 Literary talent
His literary genius appeared at a very early age. His mother, a booklover,
trained him in four essential part of language – how to read, write, speak, and
understand. This was helpful to him throughout his life in learning a language.
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They spoke Tagalog, their home dialect at home. Later, when he went to abroad,
Rizal became good in Spanish, which became like his mother tongue. His major
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writings were in Spanish, the language of the educated class then.

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 A fake poem
It was previously believed that Rizal’s first poem was written at age eight, in
1869, and was a Tagalog poem entitled, “Sa Aking mga Kabata” (To My Fellow
Children). The fake poem was allegedly a tribute to Rizal’s precociousness and
nationalism. c

It appeared only in 1906, years after Rizal’s time, and the real author is
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unknown. It has many inconsistencies with Rizal’s style and with 19th century
Tagalog.
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 Rizal the boy magician
The story of the fake poem would have amused Rizal because he had a
healthy sense of humor. Rizal played pranks and was able to do magic tricks. He
learned various tricks, such as making accoin to appear or disappear in his
fingers. He could make a handkerchief vanish in thin air.
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 Lakeshore reveries
While growing up, he explored Calamba on a pony given by his father, and
he took long walks along the lakeshore with Usman, his black dog.
To while away the hot summers, Rizal andc his dog spent many sunsets along
laguna lake, here he meditated on the sad conditions of his people.
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 Personal influences on the hero
● Three influences define a person’s character and direction in life. In Jose
Rizal, these influences combined to help him transcend his limitations and
develop heroic tendencies
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Three personal influences were as follows:
1. Hereditary influence
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2. Environmental influence
3. Divine providence
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 Hereditary influence
According to biological science, there are inherent qualities that a person
inherits from ancestors that define his/her personal traits. Those are the person’s
DNA or his/her natural physical code.
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 Environmental influence
Environmental influences include places, associates, and events. The scenic
beauties of Calamba, their beautiful house and library stimulated his artistic and
literary talents.
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The religious atmosphere at his home fortified his love to God, his brother,
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Paciano, instilled in his mind the love for freedom and justice.

From his sisters, he learned to be courteous and kind to women. The fairy tales
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told by his Aya awakened his interest in folklore and legends.

 Divine Providence
God gave Jose Rizal a genius, an innate reason, and his purpose in life.
Incidentally, always, he had free will to make his choices in life. It was Jose
Rizal’s personal choice to embrace his destiny
c and come what may, to fight the
forces that made his people and country poor.
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Thank you!
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