Tanya Barragan
Scott Lankford
English 48A
Scott Lankford
English 48A
Christopher Columbus
AUTHOR’S QUOTE
“The pure devotion which I have ever borne to the service of Your Highnesses, and the unmerited wrong that I have suffered, will not permit me to remain silent, although I would fain do so; I pray Your Highnesses to pardon me. I am so ruined as I have said; hitherto I have wept for others; now, Heaven have mercy upon me, and may the earth weep for me.” (35)
INTERNET QUOTE
“From his very first contact with native people, Columbus October 14, 1492 , Columbus Columbus
SUMMARY
Christopher Columbus writes in Letters to Ferdinand and Isabella the issues and experiences of his voyages but he also writes in the harsh treatment that he was given when failure in them. He writes in his letter to Luis de Santangel, from his first voyage, his discoveries of islands and the names that he has given these islands. But he also writes on the people who he has discovered on the islands; the Natives. He also writes on the beauty and the food that he has discovered. But in his letter to Ferdinand and Isabella on the fourth voyage, he writes about what his whole point was for his voyages and cries about how he had made mistakes and was treated harshly because of it.
YOUR IDEAS/REACTIONS/RESPONSES TO THE AUTHOR’S IDEAS
Some of the ideas that I got from Christopher Columbus’s voyages and letters is that they only state what he had found and discovered. I also saw that he was whining about how his country, King and Queen treated him and lost faith in him and gave him poor treatment. But I saw this as only his side and what he had gone through and he doesn’t talk about how harshly treated the Natives and maybe the poor treatment that he got from his country, King and Queen was well deserved for his failure and what I call Karma. Because I really don’t like Christopher Columbus, I reacted to his work as boring because I am tired of hearing about his side and what he had done on his voyages. However, I also reacted as seeing a different side of what he went through because even though I have heard about him and his voyages, he was treated horribly because he made many mistakes. Even though he had discovered and gave his country slaves, they lost hope and faith in him. I feel that they got what they wanted from him and when he couldn’t deliver they threw him to the wolves.
The quotes that I chose for the response, explains the ideas that I got from the author. The quote that I chose form the book explains a man who has suffered a great deal, after giving his country entirely all he could give. After Christopher Columbus voyages, there was always something wrong that did and there was a lost of hope with him; however he was always given another chance. I feel that Christopher Columbus was trying to explain in his letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, all he gave and did for them; how could they treat him with such disregard. I also feel that he was explaining with everything he had done he was left with nothing but pain and sorrow, from their cruel treatment to him. But as a country I saw that they did what they had to, to Christopher Columbus, to survive as a country and with his mistakes, it was making their country look bad.
That’s why I chose the Internet quote that I did. With all of Christopher Columbus’s voyages and letters and complaints, about what he went through; he neglects to tell Ferdinand and Isabella that he was sorry for his mistakes. But that’s not all, with all his letters what about the truth about his mean and cruel treatment to the Natives. Why doesn’t he talk about him being a horrible man who only wanted to dominate; in his letter he states that is not what he wanted to do but that is exactly what he did? I think that with he was saying in his letters he was only thinking about him self and what he did but there was so much more to him than that; not in a good way.
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