Aims of Noli Me Tangere describe all phases of Filipino life, but almost
everybody wanted to write about women. Rizal
even saw his companions spend more time To awaken feelings of countrymen gambling and flirting with Spanish women. Because of this, he pulled out of the plan of co- To depict a series of typical Filipino scenes writing with others and decided to draft the novel alone. To describe the classical types in the country during the era Noli Me Tngere (Latin for Touch Me Not) is a novel written by Jos Rizal, one of To reveal his excellent gift of obserbvations the national heroes of the Philippines, during the colonization of the country by Spain to To attack especially the Dominicans and the Franciscans expose the inequities of the Spanish Catholic priests and the ruling government. Originally written in Spanish, the book is more Significance commonly published and read in the Philippines in either Tagalog or English. Gave a cross section of the Philippine society during Together with its sequel, El Filibusterismo, the Rizals time reading of Noli is obligatory for high school students throughout the country. It exposed various elements in colonial society
It opens the eye of the Filipinos to reality STORY
Reasons why Rizal wrote Noli
To disprove wrong accusations of Spaniards to Filipino
and Philippines
To express the cry of Filipino people
To express everything about the wrong use of religion
to benefit and corrupt people
To expose all corruption and abuses in the government
In a reunion of Filipinos at the house of his
friend Pedro A. Paterno in Madrid on 2 January 1884, Rizal proposed the writing of a novel about the Philippines written by a group of Filipinos. His proposal was unanimously approved by the Filipinos present at the tite, among whom were Pedro, Maximino Viola and Antonio Paterno, Graciano Lpez Jaena, Evaristo Aguirre, Eduardo de Lete, Julio Llorente and Valentin Ventura. However, this project did not materialize. The people who agreed to help Rizal with the novel did not write anything. Initially, the novel was planned to cover and