Whole anecdote of Jose Rizal gamu-gamo?

Answer 1

It was Jose Rizal's Mother who told him about the story of the moth. One night, her mother noticed that Rizal was not paying anymore attention to what she is saying. As she was staring at Rizal, he then was staring at the moth flying around the lamp. She then told Rizal about the story related to it.

There was a Mother and son Moth flying around the light of a candle. The Mother moth told her son not to go near the light because that was a fire and it could kill him easily. The son agreed. But he thought to himself that his mother was selfish because she doesn't want him to experience the kind of warmth that the light had given her. Then the son moth flew nearer. Soon, the wind blew the light of the candle and it reached the wings of the son moth and he died.

Rizal's mother told him that if the son moth only listened to what his Mother said, then he wouldn't be killed by that fire.

Answer 2

When Jose Rizal was a child, he watched a moth (gamo-gamo) trying to fly towards the light of a lamp. The moth kept hitting the flame until it perished. Rizal saw this as a metaphor for the fate of Filipinos during his time, being attracted to false ideals or foreign influences that led to their destruction. This anecdote served as a lesson for Rizal to advocate for national identity and liberation from oppressive forces.