Response Essay: "Song of the Humming Bird" by Graciela Limon Huitzitzilin; the name of the story’s protagonist and a word in the Nahuatl language that means Hummingbird. The book, Song of the Humming Bird, written by Graciela Limon was published in the year of 1996 and was accepted by the public as a sympathy opening story. In this book, we read about an elderly woman who lives in a convent in Mexico City in 1853 after living through the Spanish invasion over the Aztecs. She speaks to a new coming monk and very serious scholar, about what she went through as she saw her life, her culture, the end of her era and explains that she will confessing all her sins. The monk, named Father Benito Lara, is very interested in hearing her story and learning
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The novel, the Song of the Hummingbird, formulates in me a feeling of misunderstanding towards how many of us are unaware of the authentic events that took place when the Spaniards took over what today is Mexico(The “Conquest”), represents the engagement in the cultures then and now, and offers students the opportunity to discover …show more content…
At the beginning of the story as Father Benito was waiting for the door to be opened, the lady referred to Huitzitzilin in a negative manner. She explained to Father Benito that Huitzitzilin had asked to be confessed and spoke negatively about her, “These people are not like us Father. They have no spirit!” (Limon 11) Father Benito asked her to not speak of her like that. The woman judged her wrongly, because she wasn’t a Spaniard the way she was and because she had different beliefs. Towards the end of the book, as Father Benito is told about Huitzitzilin’s death, he has a nostalgic feeling because he realizes that he misjudged her at the beginning and realized what a strong lady she was after everything. I know that this lesson serves my life because nothing different is happening today. The incident of November eleventh, has all Americans misjudging those that claim to be Muslims because of what they wear or how they speak, accusing them of being terrorist, just how the lady accused Huitzitzilin of having no
The novel, the Song of the Hummingbird, formulates in me a feeling of misunderstanding towards how many of us are unaware of the authentic events that took place when the Spaniards took over what today is Mexico(The “Conquest”), represents the engagement in the cultures then and now, and offers students the opportunity to discover …show more content…
At the beginning of the story as Father Benito was waiting for the door to be opened, the lady referred to Huitzitzilin in a negative manner. She explained to Father Benito that Huitzitzilin had asked to be confessed and spoke negatively about her, “These people are not like us Father. They have no spirit!” (Limon 11) Father Benito asked her to not speak of her like that. The woman judged her wrongly, because she wasn’t a Spaniard the way she was and because she had different beliefs. Towards the end of the book, as Father Benito is told about Huitzitzilin’s death, he has a nostalgic feeling because he realizes that he misjudged her at the beginning and realized what a strong lady she was after everything. I know that this lesson serves my life because nothing different is happening today. The incident of November eleventh, has all Americans misjudging those that claim to be Muslims because of what they wear or how they speak, accusing them of being terrorist, just how the lady accused Huitzitzilin of having no