Antonia Sanders
August 27, 2009
AP English III
Christopher Columbus and Cabeza de Vaca
These two stories talk about two men, Christopher Columbus and Cabeza de Vaca. Both men go to new lands that they have never seen before. Both experience different emotions while on their journeys. At times that they are on these lands they may come across disasters and may feel misery at certain points.
Both men encounter new things in their life while being on their journey. While reading I learn that Christopher Columbus make four voyages. While being on these voyages he discovers islands and names them after different things. He also describes what the nature was like on these discoveries. He thinks that the nature around him is a beautiful thing and enjoys it a lot. On the other hand Cabeza has a different type of discover. He is brought into other people’s lifestyle. He experiences how people go without eating and what type of things goes on with the families. While in Arbadao Cabeza gets a feeling on how hot it can really be. He uses a metaphor which gives that away. “We shed our skins twice a year like snakes. The sun and air raised great, painful sores on our chests and shoulders”. This statement shows us readers that these people lived on a very hot environment.
Christopher came across good and bad in his life. At first he had a good relationship with the Taino Indians until he decided to do some of the settlers bogus and leave them behind. Years pass and Columbus comes across his third voyage where he feels like he’s just in paradise because of the rich and luxurious nature he was surrounded by. Little did he know he would soon be arrested, and his world would turn around before his eyes blinked? I guess Karma is a big “B”! Christopher makes a statement which sort of sounds like he felt kind of deceived or played in a way. “After I, by the divine will, had placed them under your royal and exalted lordship, and was on the point of securing a very great revenue, suddenly, while I was waiting for ships to come to your high presence with victory and with great news of gold, being very secure and joyful, I was made a prisoner and with my two brothers was thrown into a ship, laden with fetters, stripped to the skin, very ill-treated, and without being tried condemned”. Basically in this statement he is saying how he thinks he brought nothing but good to Your Highness, but then he gets chained and taken to jail and gets treated badly. Columbus also has a mournful tone. “I am so ruined as I have said; hitherto I have wept for others; now Heaven have your mercy upon me, and may the earth weep for me”. He thinks that just because he has felt sorry for others, now people should feel the same pain for him.
Taking journeys can either go bad or good. You can see things you never thought you would and could really enjoy it. Or you can come across some negatives that could hurt you and bring you down. Both of these men had a little bit of both.
August 27, 2009
AP English III
Christopher Columbus and Cabeza de Vaca
These two stories talk about two men, Christopher Columbus and Cabeza de Vaca. Both men go to new lands that they have never seen before. Both experience different emotions while on their journeys. At times that they are on these lands they may come across disasters and may feel misery at certain points.
Both men encounter new things in their life while being on their journey. While reading I learn that Christopher Columbus make four voyages. While being on these voyages he discovers islands and names them after different things. He also describes what the nature was like on these discoveries. He thinks that the nature around him is a beautiful thing and enjoys it a lot. On the other hand Cabeza has a different type of discover. He is brought into other people’s lifestyle. He experiences how people go without eating and what type of things goes on with the families. While in Arbadao Cabeza gets a feeling on how hot it can really be. He uses a metaphor which gives that away. “We shed our skins twice a year like snakes. The sun and air raised great, painful sores on our chests and shoulders”. This statement shows us readers that these people lived on a very hot environment.
Christopher came across good and bad in his life. At first he had a good relationship with the Taino Indians until he decided to do some of the settlers bogus and leave them behind. Years pass and Columbus comes across his third voyage where he feels like he’s just in paradise because of the rich and luxurious nature he was surrounded by. Little did he know he would soon be arrested, and his world would turn around before his eyes blinked? I guess Karma is a big “B”! Christopher makes a statement which sort of sounds like he felt kind of deceived or played in a way. “After I, by the divine will, had placed them under your royal and exalted lordship, and was on the point of securing a very great revenue, suddenly, while I was waiting for ships to come to your high presence with victory and with great news of gold, being very secure and joyful, I was made a prisoner and with my two brothers was thrown into a ship, laden with fetters, stripped to the skin, very ill-treated, and without being tried condemned”. Basically in this statement he is saying how he thinks he brought nothing but good to Your Highness, but then he gets chained and taken to jail and gets treated badly. Columbus also has a mournful tone. “I am so ruined as I have said; hitherto I have wept for others; now Heaven have your mercy upon me, and may the earth weep for me”. He thinks that just because he has felt sorry for others, now people should feel the same pain for him.
Taking journeys can either go bad or good. You can see things you never thought you would and could really enjoy it. Or you can come across some negatives that could hurt you and bring you down. Both of these men had a little bit of both.
