Bonifacio as a Hero
Filipinos have their own opinion to who will be our national hero. Some says that Jose Rizal deserves to be while the others want Andres Bonifacio.But for me Bonifacio deserves to be. From a young age, he was obsessed with independence for our country. He became the central force in uniting and organizing the society. He is a well known Filipino nationalist and revolutionist. In the time of Spaniard colonial rule he became the founder and leader of the Katipunan movement. Well we can’t deny the fact that Rizal gained more knowledge than Bonifacio because he has an access to travel on different countries. But Bonifacio was not an uneducated one. He was self-educated and was well-read. The group that Bonifacio founded aimed to unite the whole archipelago into one organization to defense the injustice of Spaniards to us. Bonifacio was a man of action. We can also accept the fact that Bonifacio derived his idea from Rizal but he is the one who put that in action. Bonifacio was a pure Filipino while Rizal has a family race of being a Chinese. Rizal has many written works but we shoul not forget also that Bonifacio wrote the “Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa”. We can see how he really loved our nation. He united the hearts and minds of Katagalugan, he also trained and preapared them on how to fought for our rights. He has the dedication even if he don’t have more knowledge than of Rizal he still have the guts to do what he thinked he need to do.
We can’t compare Bonifacio and Rizal to what they have done to get our sovereignty back. Rizal fought against the friars with the use of his pen Bonifacio advocated for revolution. Both of them used different ways to motivate the Filipinos during their time. A hero is someone, especially a man, who has done something brave, good and who is therefore greatly admired by a lot of people.
