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