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Julí
Tandang Selo is Cabesang Tales’s father and Tanó and Julí’s grandfather. After Julí sells herself into servitude, Tandang Selo loses his ability to speak. Later, when Julí is killed visiting Father Camorra, Tandang Selo leaves San Diego to join his son and the other bandits in the forest before being killed by his own grandson in a firefight with the army.
Tandang Selo Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Tandang Selo or refer to Tandang Selo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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30. Julí Quotes
“Oh, God, oh, God!” said a poor woman, emaciated from hunger. “Before You there is no rich or poor, no white or black, bring us justice!”
“Yes,” her husband answered. “The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They’re the first ones to not believe in Him!”
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Tandang Selo Character Timeline in El Filibusterismo
The timeline below shows where the character Tandang Selo appears in El Filibusterismo. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
4. Cabesang Tales
Tandang Selo ’s son, Tales, has found some economic success, having cleared an unoccupied plot of land...
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...afford the ransom. In desperation, she sells herself into the service of a rich widow. Tandang Selo is aggrieved by this news. Julí is convinced that her marriage to Basilio has been...
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8. Merry Christmas!
...Christmas Day without the miracle she had prayed for coming to pass. Aggrieved, she leaves Tandang Selo and her childhood home to enter into domestic service. Tandang Selo watches the Christmas festivities,...
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9. Commentaries
News spreads of Tandang Selo losing his voice. Everyone in San Diego who is complicit in the persecution of Cabesang...
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11. Los Baños
...the captain-general hears one last petition from Julí and, on Camorra’s advice, grants it, releasing Tandang Selo , who was jailed in his son’s place.
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30. Julí
...Camorra’s window to her death. Camorra is transferred away from San Diego, while the still-mute Tandang Selo ’s attempts to get justice for her are denied, and he too leaves San Diego...
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38. Power
...other than Tanó, back from his deployment to the Carolinas—realizes he has shot his grandfather, Tandang Selo .
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