{"id":357,"date":"2008-09-22T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4531444003125428373.post-7369230226955440945"},"modified":"2008-09-22T22:44:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T06:44:34","slug":"span364-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/2008\/09\/22\/span364-5\/","title":{"rendered":"span364"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of Brev\u00edsima relaci\u00f3n de la destrucci\u00f3n de las Indias it is apparent that De Las Casas is writing for a cause. I do not see any selfish intentions within his writing. Although he is not against colonization and evangelization he does not seem to seek any personal gains from his chronicle. He genuinely is seeking aid for the people of the Americas. De Las Casas uses strong rhetoric to get his point across to his intended reader. The indigenous people are being tortured and the Spanish are not acting like good Christians; \u201c\u2026que en todas las partes de las Indias donde han ido y pasado cristianos, siempre hicieron en los indios todas las crueldades susodichas \u2026en aquellas inocentes gentes.\u201d (pg. 24)<\/p>\n<p>Among all the justifiably used vocabulary to describe the actions of the Spanish, there was one quote that stood out especially. It describes the despair the Indigenous people faced and allows the reader to feel their hopelessness; \u201cAquellos son los caminos por donde \u00edbamos a servir a los cristianos y, aunque trabaj\u00e1bamos mucho, en fin volv\u00edamonos a cabo de alg\u00fan tiempo a nuestras casas y a nuestras mujeres y hijos; pero agora vamos sin esperanza de nunca jam\u00e1s volver ni verlos ni de tener m\u00e1s vida.\u201d (pg. 31)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of Brev\u00edsima relaci\u00f3n de la destrucci\u00f3n de las Indias it is apparent that De Las Casas is writing for a cause. I do not see any selfish intentions within his writing. Although he is not against colonization and evangelization he do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[648,333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-las-casas","category-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}