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• Ibarra is the character in Noli Me Tangere who represents the small group of Filipinos who had a chance to study abroad. 
• Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere was influenced by this novel of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
• Noli Me Tangere, Rizal’s first novel, exposed the immoralities and inequities of the Spanish Catholic friars and government officials during his time. 
• 1886 and 1887, the transition between these years was perhaps one of the most stressful parts in Rizal’s life.
• Maria Clara is the character in Noli Me Tangere, personifies some ideal Filipinas, loving and loyal to their respective spouses. 
• Rizal deleted this chapter of the Noli Me Tangere to economize its printing, Elias and Salome.
• Emilio Terrero is the Governor-General who summoned Rizal to the Malacañan Palace because of the petitions against the Noli. 
• Lt. Jose Taviel de Andrade of the Guardia Civil was assigned to be Rizal’s bodyguard. 
• Rizal narrated that his enemies burned his books, and his friends bought them for as much as sixty pesos is FALSE.
• It is said that Pilosopo Tasio’s character was patterned after that of Paciano, Jose’s intelligent brother who also sought reforms. 
•  Bernardino Nozaleda, the Archbishop of Manila, petitioned to ban the Noli Me Tangere. 
• The Rizal was a student of medicine at the Universidad Central de Madrid when he started writing El Filibusterismo and was 26 years old at its publication is FALSE. He was writing Noli.
• Noli Me Tangere was originally written in Spanish, the language of the colonizers and the educated at the time. 
• Rizal noticed that his compatriots were interested in contributing papers to the Noli Me Tangere is FALSE.
• Dr. Miguel Morayta, Rizal’s Jesuit professor, told Rizal that everything in Noli Me Tangere was truth but foretold that he might lose his head for it is FALSE. Federico Faura said it.
•  In Madrid, a newspaper article written by Vicente Barrantes resentfully attacked Noli.
• Juan dela Cruz


  a successful businessman and

  philanthropist, who uses his resources to fund

  educational scholarships for underprivileged youth

  in rural areas.
• Maria Santos


  a young professional torn between

  pursuing her career ambitions and adhering to

  traditional family expectations.
• Father Miguel Hernandez


  a parish priest accused of

  embezzling church funds intended for community

  development projects.
• Eli Garcia

  a leader of an indigenous community

  fighting against a multinational corporation's illegal

  land grab and environmental exploitation.
• Rosa Martinez


  a single mother struggling to make

  ends meet while raising her children in a crowded

  urban slum.
• Noli Me Tangere is composed of 63 chapters and an epilogue.
• Noli Me Tangere


  First novel of Rizal that exposes the abuses and inequities of many Spanish Catholic friars and government

  officials during this time.
• Rizal was a student of medicine at the Universidad Central de Madrid when he started writing it and was 26 years old at its publication.
• Noli Me Tangere was originally written in Spanish.
• The author fittingly dedicated the novel to the country of his people whose miseries and sorrows he brought to light in an attempt to awaken them to the truths concerning the ills of their society.
• Noli Me Tangere is published in early 1887 in Europe.
• English translation of Noli Me Tangere is usually titled Touch Me Not and The Social Cancer. The Latin title, which means “touch me not” was taken from the Christ’s words.
• In a letter to Felix Hidalgo, Rizal, however, made a mistake in attributing the quotation to the Gospel of Luke, for it, was in fact recorded in John 20:17: “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father.”
• In a meeting of Filipinos in Madrid at the Paterno residence in January 1884, Rizal suggested the creation of the book. The proposal that all of them would contribute papers on the various facets of life in the Philippines was unanimously approved by those present at the reunion, among whom were the Paternos (Pedro, Maximino, and Antonio), Graciano Lopez Jaena, Valentin Ventura, Eduardo de Lete,

  Evaristo Aguirre, and Julio Llorente.
• Rizal explained in his letter dated January 2, 1884, was unanimously approved but the plan did not materialized.
• Rizal started writing alone the novel in Madrid toward the end of the same year and finished about half of it in the city.
• Leaving for France in 1885, he had written the third quarter of the novel in Paris.
• In Wilhelmsfeld, he penned the last few chapters of Noli from April to June 1886.
• The novel was completed in Berlin, Germany at the end of 1886, and the final draft was ready for publication at the onset of the year 1887.
• The transition between 1886 and 1887 was perhaps one of the most stressful parts in Rizal's life.
• A friend from a rich family in San Miguel, Bulacan arrived in Berlin. The paldo (loaded with money) Dr. Maximo Viola went to Germany to invite Rizal to accompany him on a Europe tour. However upon learning about Rizal's quandary, the kind Viola decided to delay the tour and insisted on lending Rizal some money so that the Noli could be

  published.
• Rizal made some adjustments in the novel to economize in its printing. He deleted the chapter titled “Elias and Salome”, which was supposedly Chapter 25, following the chapter, “In the Woods”.
• The P300 Viola lent to Rizal was thus used to print the first 2,000 copies of the Noli. Some references state that Noli Me Tangere officially came off the press on March 29, 1887, although records also showed that by March 21, Rizal was already sending Blumentritt a copy of the novel.
• Maximo Viola


  "the savior of the Noli"