Huitzilison's Song Of The Hummingbird By Graciela Limon

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In Song of the Hummingbird, the book describes the story of an indigenous woman named Huitzitzilin who explains her story to a Spanish monk. The Spanish monk finds her story to be fascinating because it is not what he was taught back in Spain. He sympathizes with her and begins to see the conquest through her perspective. She details the events that her people endured at the hands of Cortes and his Spanish conquerors. The text is organized by chapters as Huitzitzilin reiterates her story to Father Benito Lara the Spanish monk. The author proves and supports their argument by providing detailed examples of Huitzitzilin’s story of the events that her people endured at the hands of Cortes and his Spanish conquerors. Overall the book is focused on how much power and the importance of …show more content…
It is a way of telling the untold stories of history that the conquerors always exclude. With this book any individual interested in learning how powerful and important storytelling is, is able to do so because it provides vivid examples of what the people of Huitzitzilin suffered with the Spanish conquerors. Some strengths of the book include the depth of the examples that the author was able to contribute with, as well as the way the book was presented to the reader. It was in a storytelling format that engages the reader and the reader is able to easily follow. Limón was successful in organizing the book in storytelling format because it was able to capture the reader’s attention and the main points of Huitzitzilin’s story. Some of the major weaknesses of the book were that the book lacked in visual examples thus preventing the reader to fully grasp the author’s examples. Visuals would have allowed he reader to understand the author’s points and would have also added a sense of “liveliness” to the

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