Task 1. A Time in the Past. Read the last letter of Jose Rizal to his parents and
pick out five (5) Imperative sentences. Write your answer on a separate sheet of
paper.
1883
To my family,
I ask you for forgiveness for the pain I cause you, but some day I shall have to
die and it is better that I die now in the plentitude of my conscience.
Dear parents and brothers: give thanks to God that I may preserve my
tranquility before my death. I die resigned, hoping that with my death you will be
left in peace. Ah! It is better to die than to live suffering. Console yourselves.
I enjoin you to forgive one another the little meanness of life and try to live united
in peace and good harmony. Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated
by your children later. Love them very much in my memory.
Bury me in the ground. Place a stone and a cross over it. My name, the date of
my birth and of my death. Nothing more. Iflater you wish to surround my grave with
a ſence, you can do it. No anniversaries, I prefer Paang Bundok.
Have pity on poor Josephine.
Jose Rizal
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