Desiree's Baby

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Custom House

1. What is the primary purpose for the Custom House introduction? The purpose for the Custom House introduction was to be somewhat of an autobiography by Hawthorne. He explained key points in his life from his own point of view, which happened to be very unique. He compared experiences in his life to many other things, making him seem as if he had an exciting and diverse life.

2. What significant change does Hawthorne admit to making in telling the story contained in the diary? Hawthorne dresses up the tale a lot, but the significant change is in the characters. He added motives that would better explain what they did and why they did it, and he made the narrative into a story. He reveals his own perspective through the character because he was not in the time which the story happened. Instead of making it a narrative, he decided to make it a story with characters a reader can somewhat relate to.

3.What potential impact will this change have on the story? It would be more interesting, because people will want to know what happens to the characters in the end. If it were not written this way, the story would seem to impersonal and many potential readers would not want to read it.

Anne Bradstreet Reading Response

Anne Bradstreet poems can be looked at in several ways, but in all of her poetry you can see her loved for her husband and family. As she stated in “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, her first line was used to express what she felt her husband was like in this relationship. Her words were “If ever two were one, then surely we.” This describes the love she feels for her husband. A love that makes her feel as if they are no longer two separate people, but one person working together. Her next line furthers that thought, saying that her husband definitely loves her. She goes on in the poem telling how much she loves her husband and that she loves hers more than any other woman. Anne says she wouldn’t give up her love for anything, not even gold. This poem of hers, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, was written in a rhyming fashion as most of her poems were.

Anne Bradstreet Biography

http://www.annebradstreet.com/anne_bradstreet_bio_001.htm



Born in Northampton, England in 1612, Anne was born to a father who was a leader of volunteer soldiers and a mother that was well educated. At 16, she married a 25 year old husband. The family eventually moved to America. Anne and her family had a rough time living in America. She had gotten smallpox and had eight kids, and she loved all of them. One night there house caught on fire and all of their possessions burned, but because of their standing in the town they soon got everything back. Her husband was gone at work a lot, so she wrote poems while he was away. This was to express her love towards her family and husband. She died of disease at 60.

Cabeza de Vaca Visual

After living with the native Americans for a time, Cabeza de Vaca connected with them in a way. The one word I would have to use to describe this connection is 'family'. Tough de Vaca was not blood related to the Native Americans, they included him into the tribe and he lived among them as if he were of the tribe himself. This meant he took part in all of the customs they did, the ceremonies, and the everyday life they lived. He explained how they lived much differently from Europeans, at times starving themselves because a family memeber died or having to rely on neighbors to feed them. Because of this, they have established trust in one another and close bonds. De Vaca really watches this closely and sees it as a way of the tribe watching out for each other. When two men would disagree, they would fistfight and later on be friends again. That would be the extent of violence toward each other. Cabeza de Vaca himself became part of this culture, and when he returned to his own he was angered that they wanted to enslave the Indians. He was angered because, as I stated earlier, he now saw them as family.

Cabeza De Vaca Argument

The argument that Cabeza De Vaca presented in his letter was the difference in the culture of native Americans to colonists. He states several unique customs that can be described as odd and deadly in several Native American tribes. For example, children are watched over very carefully, and are nursed until they are twelve, when they can take care of themselves. Women of the Malhado work much more than others. These were facts Cabeza De Vaca found when he lived among the people themselves. They accepted him over time, and treated him as one of their own. There were times when he had to endure the everyday life of the tribes, not eating for days at a time. This would often happy when someone died, whether in their own family or even someone else's. One would have to rely on neighbors to feed them if they want to live, so it was important to establish a good relationship with them. Often, today we couldn't trust our neighbors to care for us for three months.

Native Americans in some tribes never intended to kill one another at any time. If there was a conflict in some tribes, the men of the families would fight and then live somewhere in the woods. After they calmed down, they come back and are friends again. Disease is everywhere, because mosquitoes run rampant. Odd marriage customs bound families in different ways, often making a wife feed her own father. These were all customs and experiences Cabeza De Vaca had to support his argument. His ethos came from the experience itself. He lived in Native Americans tribe for a while. Pathos of this argument is strong since the Native Americans care so much for one another and would never purposely hurt another.

In the end Cabeza De Vaca grew angry at Christians for trying to captivate his Native American friends. This shows he had developed some kind of emotional attachment to them. As he wrote in his argument, "After this we had a hot argument with them, for they meant to make slaves of the Indians in our train." He had seen the Native Americans as family by the time he wrote this. And although he starved for days at a timr, he had trust in them and did not want them enslaved. In his argument, I think that he may have hinted that Native American tribes were better than colonists and their own setlements.

Columbus Visual

I feel that this image represents Columbus' discovery of America. I feel that it was unfair for Native Americans to be forced out of their own homes and even killed. It is now taught that he was the one who discovered America, when people were already living there for centuries. Columbus is given credit for too much, and all he did was introduce the Americas to the rest of the world. This was not his initial job, he was supposed to find a quicker route to India for trade. But he failed because he underestimated the world's size.

I will admit, Columbus has made a large contribution to history, but overall he is a failure. He was unable to find a quicker trade route, and when he did find land he mistreated the people on it. Not that he himself killed all of them, but he was the initial finder and started the disrespecting of the Native Americans.

Simile

The wasped tree was like a giraffe.