The Song Of The Hummingbird By Graciela Limon

The Song of the Hummingbird written by Graciela Limon, is a novel that tells the story of the fall of Tenochtitlan witch is told by Hummingbird and also, the change of Father Benito’s attitude towards Mexica people. As the book begins, Father Bento is portrayed as rude and arrogant yet, rearranges his arrogant attitude and becomes more and more sympathetic towards the Mexica people as the story progresses. Represented in Limon’s words “He tried to imagine how much had changed in this city since her youth” (pg.81). By the same token, as Benito’s attitude changes, so does the history of the events that had lead to the end of the Mexica’s way of life. The history of what Benito was taught and what Hummingbird witnessed varies in many ways. Shown

As she begins to tell her story to him, Benito is as rude and unyielding as he could be, he was set in his beliefs and teaching and adamant that a Mexica would only tell lies about Cortez’s conquest over the Aztecs. For example, “We have been told that our men came in peace, but that the Mexicans responded in bad faith that you instead attacked slyly and treacherously.” (pg.100) Benito later finds out he is missing key details to his information, while, Hummingbird’s telling of events were explained in guiling detail. This is why as the story progresses, the author starts to describe Benito’s actions as less arrogant and more sympathetic. As the story Humming bird has to tell takes days to explain, with each end to a part, presents Benito with discomfort and irritation over a sin he never dreamt of justifying. He fidgets, buries his head in his hands, and at times even threatens to leave, but he finds himself ecstatic to hear more with each passing day. When the story draws to a conclusion; Benito sees Hummingbird story as a true tell, he realizes that his attitude and arrogance at the beginning was born of his own

She does this by not letting him answer her confessions in a general way, she only asks for his forgiveness.
Most notably, after hearing Hummingbird’s big murder confession Benito is left to confront his beliefs, saying “’Yet, how can we mere flesh and blood, presume God's forgiveness if we in our hearts cannot find that same pardon? What I mean to say is that if I raise my hand in Absolution knowing that my heart detests the evil committed by the sinner, how can I tell if God is forgiving that person’”. (pg.198)
This tactic she uses makes Benito compare his actions to what he wants to do, with what he’s obligated to do for the convent. He can’t fathom why Huitzitzilin entrusted such a sin to be forgiven by him. Moreover, he fights with the idea that if he is able to forgive her sin, would he be a sinner by affiliation? At this moment in the story, Benito is just as perplex as the Aztec people were, trying to figure out if Cortez was really a god. His decision carried the same amount of stress the king experienced when trying to figure out what to do about Cortez. Thus, bringing him to the conclusion that he just like Montezuma, he is the guide for his people but still has a lot to