'Song of a Hummingbird\r'

'Sophia Rocha Mike Fraga CHI 100 November 16, 2012 take hold Review The newfangled, Song of the Hummingbird by Graciela Limon, is a check approximately Huitzitzilin’s encounters during the Spanish conquest and the feeler of Cortes. There are many pennings in this novel, such as war, religion, culture, sins and the ending of an Era for the Mexicas. scarce it does non start off of her ordaining her stories, moreover of a young monk named Father Benito Lara, who is c anyed to hear her kick the bucket confession, for she was very old and knew she was near the end of her great journey.Father Benito went to listen to Huitzitzilin allday for she had much to say al to the highest degree her support and astir(predicate) her culture before and during the Spanish conquest. She told him some sins throughout their conversations, and when she did not talk about their sins, he would write d hold all that she was say so he can record her office of what happened during the c onquest, for he only heard teachings of how the Spaniards had seen the conquest. The novel starts of in a convent at Coyoacan in 1583.Father Benito is only 27, and Huitzitzilin is 82. As Huitzitzilin starts her bill, it is spring in the year 1501 when she was born. She describes her growing up in her tribe and of her traditions and customs. Some of these disturbed the monk because he felt up that they were stir up worshipers and did not command to hear such chants for he feel the devil will try to pull him in. Huitzitzilin tried to tell him that she was not a devil worshiper, but she has deitys of her testify that she did worship.He was taught differently of her tribe and did not understand most of the things she had to say, but he still listened for he was spellbound by most of the things she had to say about her life and about her tribe. Graciela Limon is arguing for Huitzitzilin, for the way she wrote this novel explained in detail Huitzitzilin’s journey through all her hardships she had to face during the time of the Spanish conquests. Limon did not crush how Huitzitzilin looked in any way throughout the novel. She wrote the story as f she was Huitzitzilin herself, and just wanted to down her story told. Huitzitzilin’s character had a hooking to say about her life and after every conversation she felt better after confessing her sins, for she felt a burden was being lifted of her shoulders. unmatchable theme of the novel is religion. Religion is a theme throughout the whole novel, for Father Benito unploughed referring to idol and about his Christianity every time Huitzitzilin talked about her gods of about some of her traditions. â€Å"No! Don’t point of reference the idols! Father Benito’s voice trembled, betraying the fear the god’s name conjured his mind. â€Å"No? But if you get into’t allow me to speak of them, how can I explain the most important part of those events? ” The monk was dum bfounded. Yet he had promised Father Anselmo that he would not allow allusion to those demons. He bit his lip in consternation because he couldn’t help cerebration that it would be equally difficult to speak of his own people without the mention of Jesus Christ. ” He kept reminding her that it was a great thing that the Spaniards brought Christianity amongst them.She repeatedly told him that she did not believe in his ways or in God, for she only seeked the forgiveness of Father Benito, not of God. â€Å" exit you forgive me? ” â€Å"God forgives all sins if there is contrition. ” â€Å"But will you forgive me? ” In the end of the novel he understood why she kept postulation for his forgiveness, for it was not for mercy or absolution but for understanding of her life. Another theme was sins, for Huitzitzilin confessed sins to Father Benito during her conversations. Her send-off sin was fornication with Zintle by the lake.But the way she told her sins to him daunted him for she told them in exact detailed of the way she remembered it. Her hour sin she told was abortion. She was pregnant with Zintles child and she went to a healer that knows about some herbs that can get absolve of the unborn child. She was not sorry for that sin for her and the non-Christian priest argued about it. She argued she did that for the sake of her own life, for if her husband to be found out about her fornication, he would mystify her killed. After hearing what her husband to be, Tetla, did to her the night of their wedding, he began to feel sorry for her.\r\n'