EL FILIBUSTERISMO MODULE

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Identify and explain the role of youth in nation building
based on the context of El Filibusterismo.
2. Compare and contrast the Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo,
3. Explain the importance of the writings of Rizal to the
Filipinos.

After Jose Rizal and his family experienced the negative effects of his first book, Noli
Me Tangere, he wrote the sequel which is EL FILIBUSTERISMO. He accounted the social
injustices in the Philippines during the Spanish period. This angered those who were in power
during those days- specifically the friars.
El Filibusterismo is derived from the term “ Filibustero”. Jose Rizal said to his friend
Ferdinand Blumentritt that “ the word Filubustero is little known in the Philippines…. I heard for
the first time when the tragic execution of the GOMBURZA took place. Our father forbade us to
utter it.”

QUESTION: Why do you think that the father of Rizal forbade them to utter the word “
Filibustero”.
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TIMELINE OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO
1887 Rizal started writing the El Filibusterismo in Calamba Laguna.
1888 Rizal made some changes on the plot and corrected some chapters of El
Filibusterismo in London.
1889 He went to Paris France and wrote some chapters of the El Filibusterismo
1890 He went to Brussels Belgium and wrote more chapters of his second book.
1891 He finished the manuscript and ready for printing on March 29, 1891 in Biarritz,
France.
Rizal went to Ghent to search for a cheaper cost of printing. It is here where he
printed the El Filibusterismo at F. Meyer Van Loo Press 66 Viaanderen Street.
He pawned his jewel for the partial payment of the printing but the printing was
suspended because of the lack of funds.
Valentin Ventura funded the necessary cost of printing of the El Filibusterismo.
Jose Maria Basa was given a copy and Rizal sent the original manuscript to
Valentine Ventura with dedication.

SYNOPSIS OF ELFILIBUSTERISMO

The book narrates the return of the protagonist of Noli Me Tangere, Crisostomo Ibarra, under the
disguise of a wealthy jeweller named Simoun. Dis illusioned by the abuses of the Spanish, Ibarra
abandoned his pacifist beliefs in order to return to the Philippines and start a violent revolution.
Noli Me Tangere’s Basilio, now a young man and a skilled medical student, is recruited by Ibarra to
aid him detoning a bomb at a social gathering, signaling the beginning of the revolution. However,
Basilio warns his friend Isagani. Realizing that the woman he loves is in the building, Isagani
throws the bomb into the river, averting the explosion and the revolution. Implicated in these
matters, Simoun commits suicide by taking poison and finds resting place at the home of Father
Florentino,
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 EL FILIBUSTERISMO MODULE

Activity 1: Read the El Filibusterismo and summarize any chapters (two chapters only) of the
novel. Discus the involved characters, the scenarios and its relation to present condition of
the Philippines. (use the table to guide you in your summary. You can use another sheet of
paper or another word file to write your answers)

CHAPTERS ______ and ____________

Character Scenario or Event Relation to the present

condition of the Philippines
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Activity 2) Why was El Filibusterismo translated into “ The Reign of Greed”?

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Activity 3) Using the Venn Diagram compare and contrast the Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo.