Sarimento Vs Facundo

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Sarimento attempts to describe Facundo as a villainous outlaw, but moves Facundo character description from being a brutal tyrant to an honest and intellectual ruler. In “A Portrait of Facundo” towards the end of the fifth paragraph he proclaims “He substituted terror for patriotism and self-sacrifice” this entails that Facundo no longer was evil but patriotic and self-discerning. Also Sarimento allows the readers opinion to change. After the seventh paragraph Sarimento provides ab abundant amount of examples to Facundo’s wit. In one way Sarimento presents Facundo giving orders to whip a gaucho because he believes the gaucho is lying about thiefing “ The lashes extorted from the gaucho the confession that he had stolen a yoke of oxen” This