La Relacion By Cabeza De Vaca Summary

Personality in Narratives

(In Analysis: Which Writer Shows More Emotion)

“Their eyesight, hearing and senses in general are better, I believe, than those of any other men upon earth. They can stand, and have to stand, much hunger, thirst and cold, being more accustomed and used to it than others. This I wished to state here, since, besides that all men are curious to know the habits and devices of other, such as might come in contact with those people should be informed of their customs and deeds, which will be of no small profit to them.” (Page 507 Paragraph 29). This was the last part of Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca’s La Relacion chapter twenty-five. This narrative is about Cabeza De Vaca’s time with the Avavare Indians. He spent eighteen

Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca was with the Indians for eighteen months. For six of those months he suffered from hunger. The reason being that that there was no fish among many other things. The hunger ended because the tunas began to ripen. Tunas is the Indian name for prickly pear cactus. The fruit of the tunas is edible. Cabeza De Vaca has the personality type to survive. He will do whatever needs to be done to survive. This quality that he has is the reason that he didn’t die of hunger in those six months. Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca composes, “At the end of that time the tunas began to ripen, and without their noticing it we left and went to other Indians further ahead, called Maliacones, at a distance of one day’s travel. Three days after I and the Negro reached there I sent him back to get Castillo and Dorantes, and after they rejoined me we all departed in company of the Indians, who went to eat a small fruit of some trees.” (Pages 502-503 Paragraph 10). Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca also shows that he won’t abandon people. He scoped it out then sent the other person back for the rest, when they arrived the crew continued on with more people and together. Cabeza De Vaca has the personality of the need to survive and

Herodotus does show personality in his narrative but not as much as Cabeza De Vaca. Herodotus pretty much just wrote what the Greeks took from Egypt and tales that he was told. He also analyzed the tales after he wrote them. While Cabeza De Vaca wrote about events that occurred to him when he was with the Indians. He talked about how overjoyed he was with the ill and injured people getting cured, how he suffered from hunger for six months, and the way him and others treated their injuries they got from the country. In paragraph 21 on page 505 Cabeza De Vaca writes, “They are all warriors and so astute in guarding themselves from an enemy as if trained in continuous wars and in Italy. When in places where their enemies can offend them, they set their lodges on the edge of the roughest and densest timber and dig a trench close to it in which they sleep. The men at arms are hidden by brushwood and have their loopholes, and are so well covered and concealed that even at close range they cannot be