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Title: Childhood Days in Calamba


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Chapter 2
  • Childhood Days in Calamba

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  • Jose Rizal, just like Filipino boys, had many
    beautiful memories of childhood.
  • His was a happy home, filled with parental
    affection, impregnated with family joys, and
    sanctified by prayers.
  • In the midst of such peaceful, refined,
    God-loving family, he spent the early years of
    his childhood.

3
Calamba, Cradle of a Genius
  • Rizal loved Calamba with all his heart and soul.
    In 1876, when he was 15 years old and was a
    student in Ateneo, he rememebered his beloved
    town. Accordingly, he wrote a poem Un Recuerdo A
    Mi Pueblo ( In Memory of My Town)

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Earliest Childhood Memories.
  • The first memory of Rizal, in his infancy, was
    his happy days in the family garden.
  • Because he was frail, sickly, and undersized
    child, he was given the most tender care by his
    parents.

5
  • His father built a nipa cottage in the garden for
    him to play in the daytime.

6
  • Another childhood memory was the daily Angelus
    prayer. By nightfall, Rizal related, his mother
    gathered all the children at the house to pray
    the Angelus.

7
  • With nostalgic feeling, he also remembered the
    happy moonlit nights at the azotea after the
    rosary.
  • The aya realted stories to Rizal children many
    stories about fairies tales of buried treasure
    and trees with blooming diamonds, and other
    fabulous stories.

8
  • Sometimes, when he did not like to take his
    supper, the aya would treaten him that the
    aswang, the nuno, the tigbalang, or a terrible
    bearded Bombay would come to take him away if he
    would not eat his supper.

9
  • Another memory of his infancy was the nocturnal
    walk in the town, especially when there was a
    moon.

10
  • Recounting this childhood experience, Rizal
    wrote
  • Thus my heart fed on sombre and melancholy
    thoughts so that even still a child, I already
    wandered on wings of fantasy in the high regions
    of the unknown.

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FIRST SORROW
  • The Rizal children were bound together by the
    ties of love and companionship.
  • Their parents taught them to love one another, to
    behave properly in front of elders, to be
    truthful and religious, and to help one another.

12
  • They affectionately called their father Tatay,
    and mother Nanay.

13
  • Jose was jokingly called Ute by his brother and
    sisters. The people in Calamba knew him as Pepe
    or Pepito.

14
  • Of his sisters, Jose loved most little Concha. He
    was one year older than Concha. He played with
    her, and from her, he learned the sweetness of
    brotherly love.

15
  • Unfortunately, Concha died of sickness in 1865
    when he was 3 years old.
  • Jose, who was very fond of her, cried bitterly to
    lose her.

16
Devoted Son of Church
  • Young Rizal was a religious boy. A scion of a
    Catholic clan, born and bred in a wholesome
    atmosphere of Catholicism, and possessed of an
    inborn spirit, Rizal grew up a good Catholic.

17
  • At the age of 3, he began to take part in the
    family prayers.
  • When he was five years old, he was able to read
    haltingly the family bible.

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  • He loved to go to church to pray, to take part in
    novenas, and to join the religious processions.
    It is said that he was so seriously devout that
    he was laughingly called Manong Jose by the
    Hermanos and Hermanas Terceras.

19
  • One of the men he esteemed and respected in
    Calamba during his boyhood was the scholarly
    Father Leoncio Lopez, the town priest.

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Pilgrimage to Antipolo
  • On June 6, 1868, Jose and his father left for
    Calamba to go on a pilgrimage to Antipolo, in
    order to fulfill his mothers vow which was made
    when Rizal was born.

21
  • It was the first trip of Jose across Laguna de
    Bay and his pilgrimage to Antipolo.
  • He was thrilled, as a typical boy should, by his
    first lake voyage. He did not sleep the whole
    night as the casco sailed towards the Pasig River
    because he was awed by the magnificence of the
    watery expanse and the silence of the night.

22
  • After praying at the shrine of the Virgin of
    Antipolo, Jose and his father went to Manila.

23
First Education from Mother
  • Joses first teacher was his mother.

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  • At the age of 3, Jose learned the alphabet and
    prayers from her.
  • Seeing Rizal had a talent for poetry, she
    encouraged him to write poems. She gave her all
    her love and all that she learned in college.

25
The story of the Moth.
  • Of the story told by Dona Teodora to Jose, it was
    that of the young moth made the profoundest
    impression on him.

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  • The tragic fate of the young moth, which died a
    martyr to its illusions, left a deep impress on
    Rizals mind.

27
Rizals Three Uncles
  • There were 3 uncles, brothers of his mother, who
    played a great part in the early education of
    Rizal.

28
  • Uncle Gregorio was a lover of books. He instilled
    into the mind of his nephew a great love for
    books. He taught him to work hard, to think for
    himself, and to observe life keenly.

29
  • Uncle Jose, who had been educated at Calcutta,
    India, was the youngest brother of Dona Teodora.
    He encouraged his nephew to paint, sketch, and
    sculpture.

30
  • Uncle Manuel was a big, strong, and husky man. He
    looked after the physical training of his sickly
    and weak nephew. He encourage Rizal to learn
    swimming, fencing, wrestling, and other sports,
    so that in later years Rizals frail body
    acquired agility, endurance, and strength.

31
Artistic Talents
  • Since early childhood Rizal revelaed his
    god-given talents for the arts.

32
  • He drew sketches and pictures on his books of his
    sisters, for which reason he was scolded by his
    mother.

33
  • He carved figures of animals and persons out of
    wood. Even before he learned to read, he could
    already sketch pictures of birds, flowers,
    fruits, rivers, mountains, animals and persons.

34
  • Jose had a soul of a genuine artist.

35
  • Rather an introvert child, with a skinny physique
    and sad dark eyes, he found great joy looking at
    the blooming flowers, the ripening fruits, the
    dancing waves of the lake, and the milky clouds
    in the sky and the listening to the songs of the
    birds, the chirpings of the cicadas, and the
    murmurings of the breezes.

36
  • He loved to ride on a spirited pony ( which his
    father bought for him) or take long walks in the
    meadows for him) or take long walks in the
    meadows and lakeshore with his big black dog
    named Usman.

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  • In his room, he kept many statuettes which he
    made out of clay and wax.
  • At one time, his sisters teased him Ute, what
    are you doing with so many statuettes? He
    replied Dont you know that people will erect
    monument and statues in my honor for the future?

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Prodigy of the pen
  • Not only was little Jose skilled in brush,
    chisel, and pen-knife, but also in pen. He was
    born poet. His mother encouraged him to write
    poetry. At an early age when children usually
    begin to learn ABC, he was already writing poems.

39
  • The first known poem that he wrote was a Tagalog
    poem entitled Sa Aking Mga Kababata (To My Fellow
    Children).

40
  • Before he was eight years old, he wrote a Tagalog
    drama. This drama was stages in Calamba in
    connection with the town fiesta.

41
Lakeshore Reveries
  • During the twilight hours of summertime, Rizal,
    accompanied by his dog, used to meditate at the
    shore of Laguna de Bay on the sad conditions of
    his oppressed people.

42
  • Young that he was, he grieved deeply over the
    unhappy situation of his beloved fatherland. The
    Spanish misdeeds awakened in his boyish heart a
    great determination to fight tyranny.

43
Influences on Heros Boyhood
  • In the lives of all men there are influences
    which cause some to be great and others not. In
    the case of Rizal, he had all favorable
    influences, which no other chilld in our country
    enjoyed.

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  • 1. Hereditary Influence
  • 2. Environmental Influence
  • 3. Aid of the Divine Providence
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