Father of Revolution

Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, is generally known as “Jose Rizal”. He is the seventh child of the eleven children of Francisco Mercado Rizal and Teodora Alonso y Quintos. At the young age Rizal witness how sorrowful the lives of those people in his town. Anyone who posses brown skin needs to make differential salute to a Spanish officer. Whoever ignored or makes offense in the eyes of a Spaniards official, need to pay for his disrespect with an agonizing slash of a sword or with a beating. Due to the Spanish superiority at that time Filipinos strived to rise socially by learning and using the language of their master even at home. At the age of eight Jose expressed the fear that he felt for the future of his mother language by putting it into words in his very first poem (Reines, 1971, pp. 5-9). Sa Aking Kababata is a Tagalog poem, which had a theme of its loves of one’s language.
Jose Rizal experienced the most crucial event of his life at the age of eleven. His mother and uncle were accused together as accomplices in an attempt to poison her brother’s wife. Doña Teodora, was imprisoned and treated as criminal on the basis of false and irresolute charges ( Acibo & Adanza, 1996, pp. 11-12). In the same year, his brother’s friend, classmate and teacher Father Burgos was executed together with another two priest Gomez and Zamora. The GOMBURZA fathers were accused of collaborating and leading the Cavite mutiny which involved soldiers and workers. The day of execution was visited of almost forty thousand Filipinos gathered around the platform where the three priests will be executed. This event caused mourning for all Filipinos; it left effects on the idealism of the propaganda movement and Filipino nationalist to fig...

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...ment. However, the governor answered him that he maybe forgot the great influence of the friars in the country. Then the governor called Jose again, a sheet of “Poor Friars” handbill was shown to him, which the governor said that it was found in one of the luggage of Jose in the custom house. It was then, that Rizal realise that he was been trapped. Later on the governor asked to put him in prison at Fort Santiago. The arrest of Rizal discourages those in hopeful people for peaceful country. However, this event also urges some of the Filipinos to formed new revolutionary society, especially those who are in the less class of the society. They started to fought against the government injustice not with writings but with their bolos. It’s not long when the court martial made a devastating decision, Jose Rizal was verdict guilty and sentence to death. (Craig, 1913).