Starter Post Six of Crows

I am reading Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. I chose this because it seems cool. I am not reading with anyone because I prefer to work alone on most things regarding schoolwork. I am apprehensive about the number of pages I will have to read at a time. To ensure success, I will make sure to manage my time well. Six of Crows instantly appealed to me because of both its eye-catching cover art and its popularity as a book. Fascinating characters and an eerie world where all could come into play. I have been fascinated by books with complex characters and mysterious worlds where nothing is certain, and this book will hopefully offer me that experience. In addition to being curious about how such a cast of people would unite and attempt an almost impossible heist, I also wanted to know more about the world of Ketterdam. This book caught my interest simply because it intrigues me.

Bartolome de las Casas TIQA

Bartolomé de las Casas expresses a hatred of Spanish colonial violence in the Americas, in which the encounter between Europeans and Indigenous peoples is a moral failure rather than a civilizing mission. In 1542, Las Casas writes of the Indigenous peoples as generous and kind specifically because the Spaniards were “eating the food they provided with sweat and toil.” Directly attacking Spanish assertions that conquest and enslavement were justified reactions to savagery. He relates how Spaniards killed so many Natives that “the trace of those Indian corpses that had been cast overboard by earlier ships.” This vivid testimony is not merely evidence of violence but also illustrates the hypocrisy of Christian imperialism. In the theme of “Cultural Encounters and Frontiers,” the text illustrates potential exploitation, dehumanization, and a huge imbalance of power. In conclusion, the voyage to the America’s was a large moral failure that supported exploitation and dehumanization towards the culture with the least power.