Young Rizal 

Do you know who Pepe is?

He was born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was the seventh child in a family of 11 children (2 boys and 9 girls). Both his parents were educated and belonged to distinguished families.

He is our national hero! He wrote many poems and novels. He sacrifices his life for our country. As we all know, Pepe is a smart and kind boy but the truth is he is so naughty.

This is what Pepe's true behavior.

Her mother, Teodora Alonso became his first teacher when he was young. His mother teaches him on how to write and on how to read words fluently.

Like other children, Pepe also get lazy sometimes too. It causes her mother to get mad at him. His mother always tells him that listen to the elders and to his parents to avoid bad things to happen. His mother tells him a story about a baby firefly and his mother.

One day, the little firefly saw a lamp. He was so amaze with heat that it produces but his mother stops him to go nearer the lamp because it may burn his wings. But the little firefly did not obey his mother, instead he goes to the lamp and suddenly his wings landed to the fire that causes his wings to be burned. The naughty firefly died. Pepe always learned new good lessons from his mother. Because of that, he grows very intelligent.

Sometimes Pepe gets into a fight. He is a normal child that encounters simple life. He is just protecting himself to other bully kids like in our generation. But he is not the one that gets start of it. When his getting older, he was sent to Europe to study there. He became an excellent doctor. And when he is in Europe, her mother was jailed in a crime that she did not do. He was so sad in happenings in his life.

In all of problems that he encounters, he was inspired to do many novels like Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. Because of his novels, the people in our generation wanted to be like him, to be a model for us to aim our goals and dreams in life.