Chapter Summary - El Fili
Chapter 14: A Student's Lodging House
The students want to learn Spanish in their first year of college so that they can easily learn their lessons.Pelaez is opportunistic, Machiavellian, and easily switches sides when the going gets rough. He voices his support for his fellow students, but when threatened with the possibility of being called a subversive, he wavers.
Macaraig is rich and nationalistic. He allows students to live in his lodging house for free.
Pecson is ever the skeptical pessimist. He always thinks things through.
Sandoval is a Spaniard who supports the Filipinos. This is Rizal's way of showing that in an academic setting, political and racial barriers can come crashing down.
In this chapter, Rizal gives us a glimpse of life in a school dormitory. Clearly, things have not really changed in more than a hundred years. Afterall, students will be students. Oh, there are a few differences...
Rizal did not mention anything about dormers bringing their Significant Others into their rooms. He also did not show professors and students living in the same lodging house. Then again, that was probably the culture at that time.
One of the students is about to have a debate with Seņor Pasta...
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