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    This document provides an abstract and summary of Chapter 1 of El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal. It introduces the key characters on board the steamship Tabo as it sails across the Pasig River, including Simoun, Dona Victorina, Ben Zayb, Don Custodio, Padre Irene, and Sibyla. While stuck in the mud, the characters debate different proposals to develop the river, with Simoun suggesting building a new canal and closing the old Pasig River. Don Custodio objects to the plan due to costs and potential rebellion from villagers. The document also compares El Filibusterismo to Rizal's earlier novel Noli Me Tangere.

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    This document provides an abstract and summary of Chapter 1 of El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal. It introduces the key characters on board the steamship Tabo as it sails across the Pasig River, including Simoun, Dona Victorina, Ben Zayb, Don Custodio, Padre Irene, and Sibyla. While stuck in the mud, the characters debate different proposals to develop the river, with Simoun suggesting building a new canal and closing the old Pasig River. Don Custodio objects to the plan due to costs and potential rebellion from villagers. The document also compares El Filibusterismo to Rizal's earlier novel Noli Me Tangere.

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    This document provides an abstract and summary of Chapter 1 of El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal. It introduces the key characters on board the steamship Tabo as it sails across the Pasig River, including Simoun, Dona Victorina, Ben Zayb, Don Custodio, Padre Irene, and Sibyla. While stuck in the mud, the characters debate different proposals to develop the river, with Simoun suggesting building a new canal and closing the old Pasig River. Don Custodio objects to the plan due to costs and potential rebellion from villagers. The document also compares El Filibusterismo to Rizal's earlier novel Noli Me Tangere.

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    CHAPTER I

    “ON THE DECK”

    A REFLECTION PAPER

    In Partial Fulfillment of the


    Requirements In the
    Subject BSIT 2.1A
    Rizal's Life and Works

    To be Submitted to:

    Ms. Catherine Tucson

    Submitted by

    Hallig, Erwin Francis C.

    Date of Submission: 08 November 2020


    ABSTRACT

    This chapter entitled On the Deck, begins with the steamship Tabo sailing on the Pasig River on

    its way to Laguna. While the passengers on the upper deck discuss subjects regarding the lake and the

    slow pace of ship travel, readers are gradually introduced to some characters of the novel such as the

    jeweler Simoun, Doña Victorina, Ben Zayb, Don Custodio, Padre Irene, Sibyla, Camorra, and Salvi. While

    sailing, steamship Tabo gets stuck in mud. The skipper tries to steer it out of the mud. Dona Victorina

    rants and blames the Indios (even though she is Indio) and the group ignores her. Ben Zayb argues with

    Padre Camorra and Padre Salvi joins the argument. They suggest different ways about how to straighten

    out the river and develop ports. Simoun says to dig a canal from the entrance of the river (to make a

    new channel), and close up old Pasig. Everyone agrees except Don Custodio, who says that it would be

    expensive and require tearing down villages. Simoun says they should go ahead and do that. Don

    Custodio says there is no money to pay laborers, and Simoun says the villagers can work for 3-5 months

    and bring their own food and tools. Simoun argues that even the Pyramids and Coliseum were built by

    workers in the same way. Don Custodio says the people would rebel. Simoun says that back then, the

    Egyptians and Jewish people did not rebel. But Don Custodio says Indios are different and have rebelled

    before. Simoun says they won’t rebel again, since Indios who built the house and hospital of Los Banos

    did so without rebelling. Simoun leaves to go below deck. The rest wonder what Simoun’s background

    and race are. Don Custodio complains to Ben Zayb that Simoun suggested an expedition to the Caroline

    Islands, which means they would have to build a ship (cruiser). Don Custodio suggests his project to

    clear the sandbars of Laguna: inhabitants of towns near sandbars should breed ducks to eat snails, so

    the gathering of snails will deepen the river. Ben Zayb agrees but Dona Victorina gets angry because

    more ducks would mean there would be too many balut eggs.

    ON THE DECK

    One morning on December a steamboat called Tabo was sailing across the difficult way of the Pasig

    River. It delivers many travelers to the province of Laguna. The steamboat was undoubtedly native of

    the Fillipino people it can be called the “Daong ng Pamahalaan” because it was made under the control

    of Reverendos and Ilustrisimos. The people who stay below the deck was the Indios, Chinese, and Half-

    breeds while the people who stay up on the deck is Europeans, Friars, and office wirkers.

    Dona Victorina was the only lady in the European group on the upper deck. She is depicted as a

    foul-mouthed, extravagant, heavily made-up, disdainful, and insufferable Indio who tries to pass herself
    off as a European through her wigs and clothes. She is accompanied by her niece, the beautiful and rich

    Paulita Gomez. Dona Victorina is the wife of Don Tiburcio de Espadana who left her many years.

    Among the other characters introduced are Don Custodio, an official coounsellor; Ben Zayb an

    exceedingly intelligent writer whose pseudonym is an anagram of the surname Ybanez; Father Irene, the

    canon; and the jeweler Simoun who sports long, white hair and spares black beard and who wears a pair

    of huge blue-tinted sunglasses.

    INTERPRETATION DURING JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL When we were in high school our teacher introduce

    what the Bapor Tabo is and what it looks like in the story we also know the different legend that novel

    tells. We also compare the life of student from the novel and the life of students now and what kind of

    life they have been through to the friars.

    I learn in my high school year that Simoun was Crisostomo Ibarra in disguise who presumed

    dead in Noli Me Tangere. Ibarra return as a wealthy jeweller Simoun. In the story of El Filibusterismo he

    planned to avenge to the Spanish Officials who have been abuses the Filipino people during that time.

    In Noli Me Tangere is not merely an attack on the Spanish colonial regime. It is charter

    nationalism. It calls in the Filipino to recover his self-confidence, to appreciate his own worth, to return

    heritage of hid ancestors, to assert himself as the equal of the Spaniard. It is also a romantic novel.

    While the El Filibusterismo is a political novel, book of thought, hatred, sorrow and violence. El Fili aims

    to enlightening the society, and bringing the Filipinos closer to the truth. In this novel, the society is

    urged to open its eyes to reality and rebel against the Spanish government for its oppression and abuse.

    PERSONAL REFLECTION

    -The El Filibsterismo impact our current society by defend the Filipino people from foreign

    accusation of foolishness and lack of knowledge, to show how the people in this current society

    living a peaceful and the cries and woes of our countrymen against abusive officials. So, it may

    impact to our society because they learn some of the good things that they have to encounter to

    the whole life in our society and also to have struggled long and hard for their redemption
    continue to suffer by the hands of the some abusing people. The national hero cared about basic

    human rights and freedom for those who people who are carrying to each other and give such a

    way of being a good example for the Filipinos. The radicalism it may change the whole things

    that our country may bring change for the whole time and the beliefs that our society needs to

    be changed, and that these changes are only possible through revolutionary means. Jose Rizal

    did his thoughts about his purpose for change in the Philippine society by giving the fact that he

    will give his accuracy for the society and not getting low for his purpose to make it better and

    good.

    COMPARISON WITH NOLI ME TANGERE

    Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo are two marked novels of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal which

    are similar and different in some ways. The two novels are similar primarily in their author, Rizal.

    Another, in a way that they both talk about Spaniards abused the Filipinos, the abuse of the church of

    their power and the discrimination on Filipinos. Both Noli and El Fili shows strong and the anti-Clerical

    and even anti-Catholic color. They convey one story because the latter is published in sequel or

    continuation.

    However, they are different in many cases. Firstly Noli Me Tangere, latin title meaning “touch

    me not” that means it tried to touch the newly risen Jesus. Meanwhile, El Filibusterismo is Spanish title

    which is known in English as “The Reign of Greed”. Noli is a love story or romantic novel, dedicated to

    our motherland while the El Fili is a political novel associated with revenge and anger and is dedicated to

    GOMBURZA.

    REFERENCES

    Rizalville (n.d.). El Filibusterismo chapter 1.

    http://rizalville.com/el-filibusterismo-chapter-1

    Penguin Random House (n.d.). El Filibusterismo Readers Guide.

    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/302595/el-filibusterismo-by-jose-

    rizal/9780143106395/readers-guide/

    Gutenberg (n.d.). The Reign of Greed.

    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10676/10676-h/10676-h.htm

    Mañebog, J. (2013).
    The Noli Me Tangere. Retrieve from

    https://ourhappyschool.com/literature/noli-me-tangere

    Poblete, P. (2006).

    Noli Me Tangere. Retrieve from

    http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20228/20228-h/20228-h.htm#II

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