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    Rizal

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    Rizal is presented differently in two biographies. Guerrero's book depicts Rizal as privileged and intelligent, the embodiment of the intelligentsia who coined the term "Filipino" to unite the nation. However, Radiac's book shows both Rizal's admirable qualities but also his weaknesses, insecurities, and inferiority complex due to his small stature. Radiac believes Rizal overcame disadvantages through determination and career success, while Guerrero argues Rizal would have excelled from any background due to his character. The differing portrayals have caused questions about Rizal's status as national hero.

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    Rizal is presented differently in two biographies. Guerrero's book depicts Rizal as privileged and intelligent, the embodiment of the intelligentsia who coined the term "Filipino" to unite the nation. However, Radiac's book shows both Rizal's admirable qualities but also his weaknesses, insecurities, and inferiority complex due to his small stature. Radiac believes Rizal overcame disadvantages through determination and career success, while Guerrero argues Rizal would have excelled from any background due to his character. The differing portrayals have caused questions about Rizal's status as national hero.

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    Rizal is presented differently in two biographies. Guerrero's book depicts Rizal as privileged and intelligent, the embodiment of the intelligentsia who coined the term "Filipino" to unite the nation. However, Radiac's book shows both Rizal's admirable qualities but also his weaknesses, insecurities, and inferiority complex due to his small stature. Radiac believes Rizal overcame disadvantages through determination and career success, while Guerrero argues Rizal would have excelled from any background due to his character. The differing portrayals have caused questions about Rizal's status as national hero.

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    Rizal

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    Rizal is presented differently in two biographies. Guerrero's book depicts Rizal as privileged and intelligent, the embodiment of the intelligentsia who coined the term "Filipino" to unite the nation. However, Radiac's book shows both Rizal's admirable qualities but also his weaknesses, insecurities, and inferiority complex due to his small stature. Radiac believes Rizal overcame disadvantages through determination and career success, while Guerrero argues Rizal would have excelled from any background due to his character. The differing portrayals have caused questions about Rizal's status as national hero.

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    Name: Bethany Jane C.

    Mascardo Subject: Life and Works of Rizal


    Course & Year: BPED-1st Year Schedule: MWF 4:00-5:00pm

    The chapter 4 of Nick Joacquin’s book “A Question of Hero” talks about the
    Anatomy of the Anti-Hero. It shows the discrepancy of the book of Leon Maria Guerrero
    which is “The First Filipino” and the “Rizal From Within” by Ante Radiac.

    Both books talk about the life of Rizal but it presents distinct view of who really our
    national hero. Guerrero presents to us the man who has all the intelligence or which he
    calls Rizal as the very embodiment of the intelligentsia and the petite bourgeoisie. He
    stated that Rizal was the first man to use the term Filipino because all the revolts of the
    native against Spain failed because the result doesn’t unite the Filipino as one nation.
    Dagohoy proclaimed himself as the king of Bohol. Malong also proclaimed himself as
    the king of Pangasinan and Almazan, king of the Ilocos. No one proclaimed himself that
    they are Filipino. This was the failure of the revolts before.

    What makes the book of Guerrero different to Ante Radiac’s book is that Guerrero
    only state the admirable side of Rizal just like what he said in his book that “he was
    brought up in circumstances that even in the Philippines of our day would be considered
    privileged”. The hero was really privileged because of his family background, the
    wealthiest in their town by owning 2 stone houses, a library and able to send Rizal in
    Manila to study. But what Guerrero believed is that even if Rizal born as peasant and in
    penury, he will still have made a mark because of his character, even if he is in different
    environment with a difference experience in the world, might have made him another
    version of Bonifacio. What Rizal prefer was reform than revolution and if revolution
    then revolution from below. And because he prefer a reform rather than revolution, this
    brought dilemma in our present day. The retraction of Rizal causes a lot question about
    his title as the national hero.

    In Radiac’s book, he doesn’t just expose the goodness and popularity of Rizal in his
    time but he presents the blemishes, physical deficiency, anxieties, nostalgia, feelings of
    inferiority, insecurities, complexes and other weaknesses of Rizal as he was on his young
    age until he grow in maturity. Radiac believes that there are parts of Rizal that he was so
    weak that he stated that Rizal was aggrieved by his puny physique and was told of being
    faint-hearted and dubitator by Miguel Unamuno. He has insecurities of being small and
    weak in body compare to the people around him who were stronger than him. He can’t
    even join competitions or games because of his small stature. Rizal wants to be like them
    but eventually produces inferiority complex but Radiac says that Rizal’s career reduce
    the discrepancy between the image of who he is and what he wanted to be. It produces in
    himself a determination to excel. Radiac sees Rizal as underprivileged, born heavily
    handicapped but he rose because of his efforts to overcome his disadvantage and he
    wants to show the world that even if he was small, he was capable in turning his
    inferiority into a career of ascension.

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