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    Malinalli, also known as La Malinche, was Hernan Cortes' translator who helped the Spanish conquer the Aztec Empire. In this excerpt, Malinalli begins to realize her own power and importance as the translator between the Spanish and Mexicans. When Cortes stares intensely at Malinalli, he abruptly looks away, uncomfortable with the connection between them. Later, Malinalli refuses to answer Cortes' questions about religion, realizing he is only interested in material treasures, not in understanding her beliefs. She goes to weep by the river in response.

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    Malinalli, also known as La Malinche, was Hernan Cortes' translator who helped the Spanish conquer the Aztec Empire. In this excerpt, Malinalli begins to realize her own power and importance as the translator between the Spanish and Mexicans. When Cortes stares intensely at Malinalli, he abruptly looks away, uncomfortable with the connection between them. Later, Malinalli refuses to answer Cortes' questions about religion, realizing he is only interested in material treasures, not in understanding her beliefs. She goes to weep by the river in response.

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    Malinalli, also known as La Malinche, was Hernan Cortes' translator who helped the Spanish conquer the Aztec Empire. In this excerpt, Malinalli begins to realize her own power and importance as the translator between the Spanish and Mexicans. When Cortes stares intensely at Malinalli, he abruptly looks away, uncomfortable with the connection between them. Later, Malinalli refuses to answer Cortes' questions about religion, realizing he is only interested in material treasures, not in understanding her beliefs. She goes to weep by the river in response.

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    Malinalli, also known as La Malinche, was Hernan Cortes' translator who helped the Spanish conquer the Aztec Empire. In this excerpt, Malinalli begins to realize her own power and importance as the translator between the Spanish and Mexicans. When Cortes stares intensely at Malinalli, he abruptly looks away, uncomfortable with the connection between them. Later, Malinalli refuses to answer Cortes' questions about religion, realizing he is only interested in material treasures, not in understanding her beliefs. She goes to weep by the river in response.

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    THE COLONIZER’S

    TONGUE
    Background Knowledge

     The Aztec Empire had cultural practices that would make the modern
    man cringe. They practiced slavery and bloodd sacrifice. It is
    popularly believed that the Aztecs gave way to the conquistador
    Hernan Cortes because they had an ancient belief that someday, their
    God, Quetzalcoatl, would come back to their lands in the form of a
    white man. One of the other reasons that the Spaniards was able to
    conquer Mexico was because of La Malinche, or Malinalli, the
    translator and lover of Hernan Cortes, who also helped in advising
    Cortes. Today, she is considered as both a traitor to Mexico and a
    tempress.The except you are about to read is from the novel Malinche
    and follows the story of the titular protagonist, which in the original
    meaning was "The Tongue" of Hernan Cortes. In this particular
    segment, we see how Malinche, also known as Malinalli, begins in
    learn of her power, something which she is alien to, as she was sold
    into slavery by her mother.

    Malinche
    By
    Laura
    Esquivel
    Characters

     Cortes

     Malinalli
    Setting

    Exposition

     Malinalli needed that silence to create new and
    resonant words. Recently she had stopped serving
    Portocarro, her lord, Because cortes had named her
    ” The Tongue,” the one who transcribed what he
    said inthr nahuatl languagr, and what montezuma’s
    messengers said, from Nahuatl to spanish. Malinalli
    had learned Spanish at an extraordinary speed, in no
    way could it be said that shr was completely fluent.
    So that what she said made sense in the linds of both
    the Spaniards and the Mexicans.
    Rising Action

     Cortes stared intently at malinalli and sae the light in
    the abyss of her eyes. It was a moment of intense
    connection between them, but Cortes directed his
    eyes somewhere else, abruptly disconnected himself
    from her, bacause he was frightened by that
    sensation of complicity, of belonging, and he
    immediately tried to cut off the conversation
    between them, for, aside from everything else, it
    seemed too strange speaking about religious matters
    with her, a native in his active.
    Climax

    Media Reviews "The resulting disjointed storytelling
    gives short shrift to this complex heroine, a woman
    whose role in Mexican history is controversial to this
    day." - PW. "This novel is not as accessible as
    Esquivel's earlier work, and the quality of the prose is
    uneven, sometimes lyrical and sometimes stilted." -
    Booklist. "Despite its lyricism, this odd marriage of
    spirituality and psychology will be a slog for all but the
    most devoted New Agers." - Kirkus.
    Falling Action

     Malinalli did not want to answer him and said that
    she did not know, His interruption bothered her. It
    proved that cortes was not interested in talking
    about his religion, or his gods, or his beliefs, or even
    about her. It was clear that he was only interested in
    material treasures. She excused herself and went to
    weep by the river.
    Conclusion

    This literary piece shows us that differences doesn’t matter when it
    comes to love. Even if you don’t have the same religion, language,
    beliefs or culture. As long as you love each other, there would be a
    way for you to understand each other. Malinalli was a Mexican that
    believed in other God, while Hernan Cortes was a christian. He
    believed that everything was made from God. They also had a
    different language. In the end, Malinalli and Cortes fall in love. Cortes
    made Malinalli his translator, and Malinalli learned Spanish in an
    extraordinary speed. Malinalli hold the weapon because she’s the one
    who understands Mexican and Spanish at the same time. She could
    say whatever she want to say because she holds the finest weapon of
    all, language. Malinalli was considered as a traitor of their country. It is
    said here that this story really happened before. This really happens,
    not just in religion, culture or beliefs. Even distance, it could be the
    problem but if the two lovers really love each other it would not be a
    problem to them
    Theme

     La malinche, an religious story and about two
    language Spaniard and Mexican beliefs.

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