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A 6 page book review and essay that consists of 2 parts, each 3 pages in length. The first half of the paper offers a synopsis of the novel Aztec by Gary Jennings. The write covers the structure and main topics of the novel, describing how it informs the reader about Aztec culture. The second part of the paper then compares Aztec culture to the modern world, pointing out similarities and differences. No additional sources cited.
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novel being a long report from Don Juan, the "Bishop of Mexico, Protector of the Indians, and Apostolic Inquisitor" (4), to the Spanish monarch. The reports concerns the charge given
to Don Juan to report on the native people of Mexico, their "countrys history, their governments, their traditions, their customs," etc. (1). Finding an informant capable of fulfilling this mission
is difficult, due to the fact Cortes has destroyed the city and killed most of its inhabitants (4). However, a 60-year-old man, an Aztec, is located. This man has been
a scribe, a warrior, a courier, a traveling merchant, "even a sort of emissary from the late rulers of this place to the first arriving Castilian liberators" (5). it is
revealed later in the novel that his name is Mixtli (54). In revealing his life story, Mixtli offers the Spanish and the novels readers an insiders view of
Aztec achievement and civilization. While Mixtlis words are framed in polite rhetoric, his voice drips with sarcasm as he relates the history of his people. Nevertheless, Mixtli is open in
his admiration of the Europeans ability to record the spoken word. He compares this with Aztec picture writing, in which the "colors spoke, the colors sang or wept," which was
eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustrates, Jennings novel offers not only a structure that informs
the reader as to Aztec society, but also how the Aztecs may have viewed the world and their European conquerors. Mixtli begins with his earliest memories, telling how, on
some days, he awoke to the sound of the temple priests blowing on their "conch trumpet as they burned incense and ritually wrung the neck of a quail...and chanted to
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