The goal of a historian is to give an accurate account of an event that took place. Any additions of opinions and personal views could give false information to the reader. One particular excerpt that shifted the change of history is “The Siege of Guanajuato”, an excerpt, written after the year 1810 by, Lucas Alamán, an advocate for conservatism and a son of a wealthy family. Alamán writes a secondary source that details, a description of the leader Miguel Hidalgo, a priest who led siege to the city of Guanajuato in 1810, and reflects in a first person perspective of what it was like living during that siege in the city of Guanajuato. Lucas Alamán’s “The Siege of Guanajuato should not be taken as literal fact, because he wrote the excerpt in
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Alamán was able to pull their hearts by including the pillaging of his own home. He explains, “Centeno and the guards stayed for several days in my house at my family’s expense, and they spent those days removing the money and other belongings”. Alamán was 17 years old at the time, so this experience was traumatizing for him. However, he included this experience, so the readers are able to relate to him because they would not want their stuff to be taken away as well. History was shifting away from Hidalgo and slowly focusing more on himself, the …show more content…
He described the revolution as pillaging and continued bloodshed. In addition, he wanted to get the readers to see the revolution was chaotic. Alamán lionizes, “The looters killed one another, fighting among themselves for booty. A rumor spread that the granaries holding the stores of gunpowder had been burned, and that the castle-which is what the people called the Alhóndiga-was about to blow up”. The inclusion of this rumor only favored Alamán’s point of the revolution consisting of violence because he only looked through the eyes of the wealthy. He never considered to look through the eyes of the people and understand why they were having the revolution in the first place. The more blood and gore he included, the more one sided the revolution
Alamán was able to pull their hearts by including the pillaging of his own home. He explains, “Centeno and the guards stayed for several days in my house at my family’s expense, and they spent those days removing the money and other belongings”. Alamán was 17 years old at the time, so this experience was traumatizing for him. However, he included this experience, so the readers are able to relate to him because they would not want their stuff to be taken away as well. History was shifting away from Hidalgo and slowly focusing more on himself, the …show more content…
He described the revolution as pillaging and continued bloodshed. In addition, he wanted to get the readers to see the revolution was chaotic. Alamán lionizes, “The looters killed one another, fighting among themselves for booty. A rumor spread that the granaries holding the stores of gunpowder had been burned, and that the castle-which is what the people called the Alhóndiga-was about to blow up”. The inclusion of this rumor only favored Alamán’s point of the revolution consisting of violence because he only looked through the eyes of the wealthy. He never considered to look through the eyes of the people and understand why they were having the revolution in the first place. The more blood and gore he included, the more one sided the revolution