"Columbus in Chains"

"Columbus in Chains" is all about a picture in a book that Annie had. In that picture is Christopher Columbus tied up with chains in feet and hands. Annie is always critizizing Columbus and Mrs. Edwards is mad because he Discovered the land the lived on. And Mrs. Edwards think that Annie is being disrespectful to the history. And send her to the mistress, and as a punishment she told her to write the two volumes of Paradise Lost which is the history of the discovery of Antigua.

But I think that Annie's attitude is not right but neither is bad. Because everyone has the freedom to express their thoughts, no matter what. But Annie is being more realistic. Because Columbus could discover the land but not the right way. Because the spaniards on those voyayes were looking for gold to enrich themselves and they went land, to land exploting, abusing with the people that live on the lands. Columbus never respected their original culture and come to impose a new culture and religion eventhough that wasn't what they believed on.

In some way I agee with Annie because the perspective that she has isn't the past is what they did to make them what they are. What she wrote "A great man no longer just get up and go" What she is trying to say is that no man called great can come change everything by force and then just leave like that without fixing things back. Columbus just came and go. So he should not be great to just come and go. Annie is thinking in the past and the rest just think in the present in themselves. But Annie is thinking in her ancestor that suffered everything Columbus came to do, the explotation her ancestors had to stand.

I think this chapter is trying to make them react about the history behind the present. She is trying to let people know the truth about the history. And I think Mrs. Edwards should listened first instead of punishing her for thinking different, for expressing their thoughts.