

Juanito Pelaez to Placido Penitente, Chapter 12, El Filibusterismo Let it never be said that to raise a statue the friars have had to put their hands in their own pockets! Come now, Placido boy, you won’t be throwing away your money!” Come give three or four pesos so they will see we can be generous.

What else? A Dominican? That is why the fathers have appealed to the students. “Now I r emember! You know, I have been put in charge of collecting the contributions. Although never explicitly stated, if the plot of El Filibusterismo is to be dated with precision, then that year would be 1878.įor this to be explained, let’s first have a closer reading on an excerpt from Chapter 12 of El Fili, the biggest clue in the puzzle: The El Filibusterismo, or “El Fili” in short, is the second novel of Jose Rizal and the sequel to the Noli Me Tangere. Jose Rizal was not very fond of UST’s Benavides monument.Ġ7 April 2020 The Benavides monument.
