Immigrant's Motivation Behind The Voyage To The Indians

The author’s motivation behind the story is to show the struggle of the voyage to the new land and to show a biased opinion on the Indians. The author is very biased because he is a Spaniard in America and in order to keep people’s opinion of Indians negative so when they invade their land the people don't feel guilty.
The author uses very distinct diction that makes you empathetic towards their situation and to make them look like gods to the Indians who make sacrifices to keep them healthy. He uses words like suffered to give the story a darker tone. He talks about how there is hardly any food left and that most of them had already died. The author uses these terms to make the story more emotional and to make the reader feel and visualize the struggles of the passage to the New World. The authors point of view is clearly biased because he wants to make the reader feel bad for him and his crew.

The Spaniards try to inform the Indians that they mean no harm and that they need some food. The Indians kindly agree to the Spaniards terms and they say that they will return at sunrise with food. The author could be biased in this part of the story in saying that the indians were giving them all these luxuries. The author could be using this bias to enhance his story or to make it seem as though the Indians were very kind and were willing to help the Indians. This is important because later on, the Spaniards go on to take over this land and enslave the Indians. So having this bias makes it seem as though the Indians would be good slaves, and would not revolt against the