Elias He is Ibarra's Rizal represented the Without freedom, The solution to the
mysterious friend, a Filipino masses in the there is no light... You defects of the Spanish
master boater, also a novel through him. As see nothing of the colonial system in the
fugitive. He was the symbol of the struggle that is being Philippines can be
referred to at one common people, Elias prepared, or the cloud gleaned from the
point as "the pilot." He did everything to on the horizon. The exchange of ideas
wants to revolutionize vindicate them from struggle begins in the between Elias and
his country. He came the injustices suffered field of ideas, but will Ibarra. Rizal himself
from the family which from the Spaniards. descend into the however, was not very
the Ibarra clan He believes that arena, and strain with clear on what to do.
downtrodden for justice can be blood. I hear the voice He was not certain of
generations. In the obtained only through of God. Woe to those opting for a revolution.
past, Ibarra's revolution that reforms who will resist Him! On the other hand, he
grandfather simply won't do. For them, history has made it clear and plain
condemned his He symbolizes the not been written. the threat of a
grandfather of burning very root of the Our people slept for possible outbreak of a
a warehouse, leading Filipino culture before centuries, but one day revolution, should
to the misfortunes of the coming of the the lightning struck radical reforms not be
Elias' family. Spaniards, which and its very act of instituted in the colony
remained strong and destroying, it called by the Spanish
unbroken by the forth life. Since then, government.
Spanish culture. Elias new tendencies work
can be a symbol for on our spirits, and
Andres Bonifacio. these tendencies, now
scattered, will one day
unite under the
guidance of God. God
has not failed other
peoples; He will not
fail ours; their cause is
the cause of
freedom!
- Elias who appeared
to be the voice of the
revolution believed
that reforms to obtain
justice were not
possible. This was his
response to Ibarra
when the latter
convinced him to trust
the government and
the need of the light of
education.