REACTION PAPER VENERATION WITHOUT UNDER
Lee, Kathryn E. PI 10 T-5R
E13 September 12, 2014
Somehow, the article Veneration without Understanding, written by Renato Constantino, strengthened my stand that our great national hero, Jose Rizal, is not all that great and should not just be the one revered as the most important and absolute hero of our country.
Until the present day, people still believe that Rizal did so much for his beloved country, although we cannot deny the things he did to lessen the burden the Philippines had to carry way back then. They act as if Jose Rizal in the one and only one hero that there can be when in fact, there are so many men and women that qualify for the characteristics of a hero today. Contrary to the belief of many, Jose Rizal did not ever wanted freedom from our oppressors, this was clearly written in the article. He only sought reform and some amendments which is by far so much different from what the Filipinos want way back then. Honestly, I think he did well. He alleviated the status of the native Filipinos in the earlier times into a much more respected and distinguished way. In his own ways, little by little we thought better of our selves, because if a man like him can, why can’t we? And by offering himself wholly and completely to the nation by his ultimately death, that was the last hesitation whatsoever the people had back then to not fight for their own freedom too, because if there is no one else to fight for them, then who would? Thus began the seemingly endless fights and disputes towards the much want liberty. I think the real problem lies with the people. They believe that there would be no man ever to compare with Rizal. They admire and look up to him as if he did everything we could have hoped and imagined. But sometimes they are being blinded by their fervor for him and tend to neglect that Rizal was not entirely the solution to everything. It was like when faced with a problem they would stop and
E13 September 12, 2014
Somehow, the article Veneration without Understanding, written by Renato Constantino, strengthened my stand that our great national hero, Jose Rizal, is not all that great and should not just be the one revered as the most important and absolute hero of our country.
Until the present day, people still believe that Rizal did so much for his beloved country, although we cannot deny the things he did to lessen the burden the Philippines had to carry way back then. They act as if Jose Rizal in the one and only one hero that there can be when in fact, there are so many men and women that qualify for the characteristics of a hero today. Contrary to the belief of many, Jose Rizal did not ever wanted freedom from our oppressors, this was clearly written in the article. He only sought reform and some amendments which is by far so much different from what the Filipinos want way back then. Honestly, I think he did well. He alleviated the status of the native Filipinos in the earlier times into a much more respected and distinguished way. In his own ways, little by little we thought better of our selves, because if a man like him can, why can’t we? And by offering himself wholly and completely to the nation by his ultimately death, that was the last hesitation whatsoever the people had back then to not fight for their own freedom too, because if there is no one else to fight for them, then who would? Thus began the seemingly endless fights and disputes towards the much want liberty. I think the real problem lies with the people. They believe that there would be no man ever to compare with Rizal. They admire and look up to him as if he did everything we could have hoped and imagined. But sometimes they are being blinded by their fervor for him and tend to neglect that Rizal was not entirely the solution to everything. It was like when faced with a problem they would stop and