Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, is generally known as “Jose Rizal”. He is the seventh child of the eleven children of Francisco Mercado Rizal and Teodora Alonso y Quintos. At a young age, Rizal witnesses how sad the lives of those people in his city are. Anyone with dark skin must salute a Spanish officer. Anyone who ignores or offends a Spanish official will have to pay for his disrespect with a heartbreaking sword blow or a beating. Due to Spanish superiority at that time, Filipinos sought to elevate themselves socially by learning and using their master's language even at home. At the age of eight Jose expressed the fear he felt for the future of his native language by putting it into words in his very first poem (Reines, 1971, pp. 5-9). Sa Aking Kababata is a Tagalog poem, which has as its theme love for one's language. Jose Rizal experienced the most crucial event of his life at the age of eleven. His mother and uncle were jointly accused of complicity in an attempt to poison his brother's wife. Doña Teodora, was imprisoned and treated as a criminal on the basis of false and irresolute accusations (Acibo & Adanza, 1996, pp. 11-12). In the same year, Father Burgos, his brother's friend, classmate and teacher, was executed along with two other priests Gomez and Zamora. The GOMBURZA fathers were accused of collaborating and leading the Cavite mutiny involving soldiers and workers. The day of the execution saw the participation of almost forty thousand Filipinos gathered around the platform where the three priests will be executed. This event caused mourning for all Filipinos; left effects on the idealism of the propaganda movement and Philippine nationalism to fig...... middle of paper ......ment. The governor, however, replied that perhaps he had forgotten the great influence of the friars in the country. Then the governor called José again, he was shown a sheet of paper with the leaflet “Poor Friars”, which the governor said had been found in one of José's luggage at customs. It was then that Rizal realized that he was trapped. The governor later asked to put him in prison at Fort Santiago. Rizal's arrest discourages those who hope for a peaceful country. However, this event also pushes some Filipinos to form a new revolutionary society, especially those who belong to the lower class of society. They began to fight against the injustice of the government not with their writings but with their bolos. It wasn't long before the court martial made a devastating decision: Jose Rizal was found guilty and sentenced to death. (Craig, 1913).