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The truths I learned at the Ateneo

By J.R. Lim
by John Nery • Published 03 June, 2019 at 8:20 PM

"I noted that Jose Rizal, our national hero and foremost alumnus, prophetically drew the same character as two opposite persons: In the Noli, Crisostomo Ibarra, the first Atenean to be depicted in all literature, is a young man of promise committed to reform and the ideals of modernization; in the Fili, set 13 years later, he has become completely transformed as Simoun, the wealthy anarchist, dedicated to breaking a vicious system that had destroyed him as a victim."
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