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 Noli Me Tangere Summary 

Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra y Magsalin, regularly alluded to as Ibarra, has been reading in Europe for as far back as seven years, however he is a mestizo Filipino. As he shows up back in the Philippines, his companion, a conspicuous man named Captain Tiago, has a gathering supper. Ibarra had been in Europe for so long that he doesn't have the foggiest idea what has been going on in the country. At supper, Father Dámaso, who Ibarra thought was companions with his dad, abuses him, which shocks Ibarra. 

As Ibarra is heading back home from the supper, another family companion, Señor Guevara, follows him and reveals to him that Ibarra's dad kicked the bucket in jail after a mission of criticism against him, and that Father Dámaso played a part in his demise. Father Dámaso had blamed the senior Ibarra for not going to admission, and after Rafael Ibarra accidentally killed a man who beat a little fellow, he was detained and assaulted with allegations of disruption and blasphemy. Guevara attempted to demonstrate his innocence, yet he kicked the bucket in jail before he could be liberated. The more youthful Ibarra is stunned, yet uncertain of what to do. He goes to visit his old sweetheart, Maria Clara, however as Maria makes reference to Ibarra's family, Ibarra is put off. 

Rather than looking for retribution, Ibarra attempts to follow his dad's strides of harmony. Subsequent to meeting with a his schoolmaster father, he anticipates building up a state funded school to help his old neighborhood. However the schoolmaster cautions him that Father Dámaso interferes in the educational system, keeping understudies from learning Spanish and requesting that he beat the understudies. Ibarra tests out the possibility of the school to town authorities, imagining that he needs to work with them on it, and they concur. 

In the interim, two young men, Crispín and Basilio, function as sextons to help their devastated mother, Sisa, who is mishandled by their dad. At the point when Crispín is dishonestly blamed for robbery, the siblings should work considerably more. At the point when he dissents, Crispín is seriously beaten, while Basilio get away. He returns the following day to search for his sibling, yet can't discover him. Sisa searches for both her children, flipping out as she meanders the region looking for them. 

Ibarra goes to his dad's grave, looking for harmony. He is stunned to find that his dad's carcass was eliminated and evidently put into a Chinese burial ground at the request for the town's minister—Father Dámaso. 

During the town's merriments, Ibarra and the authorities intend to commend the new school, wanting to favor it after a message by Father Dámaso. During the lesson, a strange man named Elías approaches Ibarra, cautioning him of a plot to kill him. Elías had been the boatman on a previous trip Ibarra took with companions, however after the outing, Ibarra found he was a needed criminal. 

That evening, Father Dámaso welcomes himself to a supper Ibarra is facilitating. He affronts both native Filipinos and Ibarra's dad explicitly. He punches Father Dámaso, yet before he can kill him, he is halted by María Clara. 

Ibarra is suspended, and María Clara becomes sick, then, at that point is reconnected to a renewed person after her yellow dad cancels her wedding to Ibarra. In the mean time, the Captain General, the most noteworthy Spanish authority in the novel, figures out how to lift Ibarra's suspension, enraging the ministry. Ibarra keeps chipping away at the school, and Father Salvi, who is infatuated with María Clara, plots with Lucas, the sibling of a man killed by the plot expected to kill Ibarra at the celebration, to outline Ibarra for a disobedience, arranging individuals with complaints against the provincial government and revealing to them that Ibarra is driving the revolt. Just before the assault occurs, Father Salvi cautions everybody, asserting somebody educated him concerning it in admission. 

Ibarra is tossed into jail, having been seen as liable dependent on a letter he kept in touch with María Clara prior to leaving for Europe years prior. Once more, Elías salvages him, breaking him out of jail and taking him to María Clara. She clarifies that she gave Father Salvi the letter that prompted Ibarra being seen as blameworthy on the grounds that he coerced her: he realized that her genuine dad is Father Dámaso, and took steps to uncover this data. She is sorry to Ibarra, significantly grieved. 

Elías and Ibarra column away, however they rapidly acknowledge they're being trailed by another boat, which will before long get up to speed. Elías hops off the boat to confound their followers, who think he is Ibarra and attempt to shoot him while the genuine Ibarra get away. They seem to kill him, however they never see his body. 

María Clara reveals to Father Dámaso that she can't wed Linares, the man she is currently drawn in to, and takes steps to end it all in case she isn't permitted to enter a cloister. Since a paper announced Ibarra is dead, she can't bear the possibility of being hitched to another man. Father Dámaso hesitantly concurs. 

On Christmas Eve, Basilio strays from the lodge where he's been remaining with a receptive family and searches for Sisa, his mom. He discovers her, yet she doesn't remember him and flees. At last, he gets her and swoons, and she passes on of shock, having at last remembered him. Elías shows up, disclosing to Basilio that he is going to pass on, and requests that Basilio put his body with Sisa's on a burial service fire. "I pass on without seeing day break's light gleaming on my nation… You, who will see it, welcome it for me… remember the individuals who fell during the evening," he says.

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Summary of El Felibusterismo

(The book is also known in English by the title The Reign of Greed)

The protagonist of El Filibusterismo is a jeweler named Simoun. He is the new identity of Crisostomo Ibarra who, in the prequel Noli, escaped from pursuing soldiers. It is revealed that Crisostomo dug up his buried treasure and fled to Cuba, becoming richer and befriending Spanish officials.

After many years, the newly fashioned Simoun returns to the Philippines, where he is able to freely move around. He is a powerful figure not only because of his wealth but also because he is a good friend and adviser of the governor general.

Outwardly, Simoun is a friend of Spain; however, in secret, he is plotting a terrible revenge against the Spanish authorities. His two obsessions are to rescue his paramour Maria Clara from the nunnery of Santa Clara and to foment a Philippine revolution against Spain.

The story of El Filibusterismo begins on board a steamer ship sailing up the Pasig river from Manila to Laguna de Bay. Among the passengers are Simoun; Doña Victorina, a pro-Spanish native woman who is going to Laguna in search of her henpecked husband, Tiburcio de Espadaña, who has deserted her; Paulita Gomez, her beautiful niece; Ben-Zayb (anagram of Ibañez), a Spanish journalist who writes silly articles about the Filipinos; Padre Sibyla, vice-rector of the University of Santo Tomas; Padre Camorra, the parish priest of the town of Tiani; Don Custodio, a pro-Spanish Filipino holding a position in the government; Padre Salvi, thin Franciscan friar and former cura of San Diego; Padre Irene, a kind friar who was a friend of the Filipino students; Padre Florentino, a retired scholarly and patriotic Filipino priest; Isagani, a poet-nephew of Padre Florentino and a lover of Paulita; and Basilio, son of Sisa and promising medical student, whose medical education is financed by his patron, Capitan Tiago.

A man of wealth and mystery, Simoun is a very close friend and confidante of the Spanish governor general. Because of his great influence in Malacañang, he was called the “Brown Cardinal” or the “Black Eminence”. By using his wealth and political influence, he encourages corruption in the government, promotes the oppression of the masses, and hastens the moral degradation of the country so that the people may become desperate and fight. He smuggles arms into the country with the help of a rich Chinese merchant, Quiroga, who aspires to be Chinese consul of Manila. His first attempt to begin the armed uprising did not materialize because at the last hour he hears the sad news that Maria Clara died in the nunnery. In his agonizing moment of bereavement, he did not give the signal for the outbreak of hostilities.

After a long time of illness brought about by the bitter loss of Maria Clara, Simoun perfects his plan to overthrow the government. On the occasion of the wedding of Paulita Gomez and Juanito Pelaez, he gives a wedding gift to them a beautiful lamp. Only he and his confidential associates, Basilio (Sisa’s son who joined his revolutionary cause), know that when the wick of his lamp burns lower the nitroglycerine, hidden in its secret compartment, will explode, destroying the house where the wedding feast is going to be held killing all the guests, including the governor general, the friars, and the government officials. Simultaneously, all the government buildings in Manila will be blown by Simoun’s followers.

As the wedding feast begins, the poet Isagani, who has been rejected by Paulita because of his liberal ideas, is standing outside the house, sorrowfully watching the merriment inside. Basilio, his friend, warns him to go away because the lightened lamp will soon explode.

Upon hearing the horrible secret of the lamp, Isagani realizes that his beloved Paulita is in grave danger. To save her life, he rushes into the house, seizes the lightened lamp, and hurls it into the river, where it explodes.

The revolutionary plot is thus discovered. Simoun is cornered by the soldiers, but he escapes. Mortally wounded, and carrying his treasure chest, he seeks refuge in the home of Padre Florentino by the sea.

The Spanish authorities, however, learns of his presence in the house of Padre Florentino. Lieutenant Perez of the Guardia Civil informs the priest by letter that he will come at eight o’clock that night to arrest Simoun.

Simoun eludes arrest by taking poison. As he is dying, he confesses to Padre Florentino, revealing his true identity, his dastardly plan to use his wealth to avenge himself, and his sinister aim to destroy his friends and enemies.

The confession of the dying Simoun is long and painful. It is already night when Padre Florentino, wiping the sweat from his wrinkled brow, rises and begins to meditate. He consoles the dying man saying: “God will forgive you Señor Simoun. He knows that we are fallible. He has seen that you have suffered, and in ordaining that the chastisement for your faults should come as death from the very ones you have instigated to crime, we can see His infinite mercy. He has frustrated your plans one by one, the best conceived, first by the death of Maria Clara, then by a lack of preparation, then in some mysterious way. Let us bow to His will and render Him thanks!”

Watching Simoun die peacefully with a clear conscience and at peace with God, Padre Florentino falls upon his knees and prays for the dead jeweler. The priest then takes the treasure chest and throws it into the sea.