Rizal: National Hero

INFORMATICS COMPUTER INSTITUTE FAIRVIEW

A REFLECTION PAPER IN:

Jose Rizal: A National Hero

NAME : Dana Mae L. Cortez

SUBJECT CODE : GE119 - 001

SEMESTER : 2nd Trimester

A.Y : 2013 – 2014

LECTURER : Mr. Solomon B. Gusto, Jr.

RATING :

Jose Rizal : A National Hero

As we take a look at our history, populous citizenry dedicated their lives for their country—people who made such of their significant addition to make part on aiming the freedom and democracy whom everyone wants to have from the rivals colonizing their countrymen; people whom at first do not recognized well by many. But of their contributions and augmentations, they were deputized as heroes of the country they bear.

In the Philippines, Dr. Jose P. Rizal was the choice of our government to appoint as the national hero. Now, these questions may come up to your minds: What made him as the Philippine national hero? What significant additions did he do to let his countrymen be freed? From what family did he come from? What were his characteristics as an individual? Did he deserve to be our national hero? Let us try to analyze and answer this curiousity of yours.

Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was the seventh child of his parents’ eleven children. He happened to be a child of two who also came from distinguished families. His father, Don Francisco Mercado, was a conscientious and persevere farmer who came from Biñan, Laguna. He has a blood of Chinese in which, I think, influenced him to his economic thing. Don Francisco made his name highly honored in Laguna. Jose Rizal’s mother was Doña Teodora Alonso Realonda, a hands-on, loving and prudent mother, who came from the clan of Lakan Dula. Her ancestors came from Japan. She was from a well-known and wealthy family in Pangasinan.

Originally surnamed Mercado, the Rizal family (as it became later known) was one of the...