Song Of The Hummingbird Summary

In the snippet from the book lies my teacher told me by James W. Loewen, the author, explains how many high school students think that history is a boring subject for them to learn due to the fact that it does not interest them learning from a text book. While as in Song of the Hummingbird by Graciela Limon Father Benito is interested in learning outside his traditional teaching because he wants to know by personal experiences about the Aztec lands. Hummingbird the person he is confessing is telling him about her personal experiences that she faced when the Spaniards conquered Mexico which was called New Spain at the time. He was interested in learning more because all the things that she told him about the Aztec lands were different from
The old women had injected his thought into his mind, and the newness of it made him uncomfortable. She had even spoken of a father, a home, a family” (21). The author justifies how Father Benito thinks that the people from the Aztec lands could be similar to the people from Spain. He thinks this because Huitzitzilin spoke to him about her having a home, and a family which was very similar to his own life and the life of the spanish people.
To sum up the book Lies my teacher told me by James W. Loewen and the book Song of the Hummingbird the stories both discussed the topics of history but had different viewpoints over the subject. Because in Lies my teacher told me Loewen the author of the story spoke about how many high school students think that history Isn’t an interesting subject to learn, as compared to Limon’s book where she spoke about Father Benito being interested in learning more about the Aztec history. He was interested in learning more because everything was different from the things he was