why is it that rizal is the national hero not bonifacio???

Answer 1

Because Rizal is very intelligent, and they want us, the Filipinos, to follow his steps. He fought through his writings, not through blood. And he contributed a lot on our own literature.

Answer 2

Rizal's work/novels sparked the "patriotic" blood of Bonifacio.
If not for the Noli and El Fili which showed satirically the real situation of the Filipinos in the Spanish era, people like Bonifacio would not take courage in fighting the colonizers.

I think the Americans (mostly) with the help of some Filipinos then, chose Rizal as the National Hero because of his meek ways of confronting the enemy. Rizal was not a "war freak" like Bonifacio.

Answer 3

Jose Rizal is our national hero because he was a person who stirred our nation to fight for its freedom through his writings. In addition to that, he was a person worthy of emulation who had the guts and brains to attain freedom in a different manner.

Andres Bonifacio, who is also a hero because of the part he played in gaining our freedom, was a person who fought in the first place because of what he read and learned from Rizal. Thus, Rizal was his inspiration for fighting. Moreover, the image of Andres Bonifacio that is painted today is not the actual Bonifacio. A lot of people think of him as a poor boy who sold fans on the streets when in fact he was a son of an ilustrado (a rich/privileged man).

Without Bonifacio's image of being poor, Rizal's status as national hero would not even be questioned. Some of the facts about Bonifacio has been changed in order to fit that picture of a poor man who fought for our country similar to a picture of a typical Filipino man that is being painted nowadays.

Answer 4

Rizal appointed as a Philippine hero ... while the yank government conquered the island of Philippines from the Spanish government some time past in 1896 by a ridicule conflict in Manila, the yank government commonly used a commonwealth government after progressive government ceased to control the country... at present of Philippine history.... Filipinos below the commonwealth government began to physique up filipino national identities.... while the question arose who may be the national hero...even though if Rizal or Bonifacio?.... the yank government assisted or how do you call it?.... guided the Filipino provisional government..... to % Rizal because of the fact of his non violent propaganda and diplomatic procedures in achieving Philippine freedom and independence, unlike Bonifacio who chooses revolution. They placed rizal as a hero instead of the kali-gun expert bonifacio to regulate the filipino human beings minds by making use of enforcing to their brains that a hero shouldn't combat the government with swords or weapons. filipino ought to combat purely by making use of the flexibility of the pen, shouldn't combat decrease back and could be shot on the decrease back. this is the reason they have the properly-time-commemorated peoples ability. a chilly revolution. however the questions nevertheless maintains to be, is it sucessful? did it remedy the poverty and corruption of the goverment at present?

Answer 5

Why is Rizal a hero, nay, our foremost national hero? He is our greatest hero because, as a towering figure in the Propaganda Campaign, he took an "admirable part" in that movement which roughly covered the period from 1882 to 1896. If we were asked to pick out a single work by a Filipino writer during this era, which, more than any other writing, contributed tremendously to the formation of Filipino nationality, we shall have no hesitation in choosing Rizal's Noli Me Tangere (Berlin, 1887). It is true that Pedro A. Paterno published his novel, Ninay, in Madrid in 1885; Marcelo H. del Pilar, his La .Soberania Monacal in Barcelona in 1889; Graciano Lopez Jaena, his Discursos y Articulos Varios, also in Barcelona in 1891; and Antonio Luna, his Impresiones in Madrid in 1893, but none of these books had evoked such favorable and unfavorable comments from friends and foes alike as did Rizal's Noli.

http://www.jose-rizal.eu/held2e.html

Answer 6

Because Rizal got killed first. It was his death that woken up the Filipino pride and inflamed the Filipino hearts to fight against the Spaniards. To them, Rizal represented the whole Filipinos who were under the tyranny of the Spanish government and its nationals.

Rizal was educated, intelligent and well-traveled. It was a pride to the Filipinos that their national hero was such a person, not one who was illiterate or who came from the poor sector.

Answer 7

Rizal believed in equality with Spaniards... in Essenes, freedom from slavery. He believed, being the educated man he is, to fight for it without any blood shed. People are still people in all aspects and he respected life.

Bonifacio, which I greatly respect, believed in literary fighting for our freedom even if it takes his own life and the lives of a Spaniards.

Different views. Technically, Same Goal.

Rizal was made the national hero due that we should emulate his way of trying to avoid violence at any cost.

Answer 8

simply, the americans are the ones who choosed Rizal as our nat'l hero coz a no. of Filipinos presented Rizal on his picture and he was well-dressed in American suits...Bonifacio appeared a real country-freedom-fighter with his itak and was shot back like a rebellious countryman.
that what my teacher told us.

Answer 9

we discussed that in class a few days ago...

according to my teacher:

when rizal was choosen to be the national hero, it was during the american regime. so the decision was influenced by the americans. i cant remember the reason y the americans chose him...
in fact, renato constatino called him an american-sponsored hero...


try reading this:
"making rizal obsulate"
"veneration w/o understanding'

both by renato constantino (he's against rizal)


"revolt of the masses" by teodora agoncillo (pro rizal)

Answer 10

Because the Americans did not want Filipinos to rise up in revolt against them, as what Bonifacio did against the spaniards.