The Jungle By Mustafan Chapter Summaries
Raul Gonzalez
5/10/17
3rd block
Ms. Fowler
PART 1
The moors account uses a motif of Flight and Flying but more specifically freedom by escape, returning home, with largeness of spirit, but all for love. As the Narvaez expedition staggers from one disaster to another, Mustafa realizes that his desperate need for the expedition to find the gold is driven by his desire for freedom, which he painfully hopes that Durante’s, his owner, will return to him. Mustafa’s remedy for this hopeless desire is to tell the true story of the expedition, in his own words. After eight years of survival, Mustafa realizes that he will never be free unless he leaves Durante’s, and the corruption of white Spanish rule. His own understanding of his condition of slavery waxes and wanes as he sees and understands what the Spanish do to the Indians, and how the Indians accept or rebel against Spanish rule. While Mustafa is enslaved he is on a quest for truth and freedom. Mustafa wants to have …show more content…
He’s a Moor that is forced to sell himself into slavery to take care of his family. But before that, Mustafa had been a successful merchant, that sold and bought many slaves. When his city came under siege many lost their jobs, including Mustafa. Mustafa feels it was his greed as a merchant that led to him being forced to sell himself into slavery, since he had gotten so greedy he had sold slaves of his own. Mustafa cares greatly about his family and constantly thinks back to them and wishes for the freedom to return to his home. During Mustafa’s enslavement, he wished to regain his freedom and he states, “The world is not what I wished it to be, but I was alive.” Mustafa was always in search of gold and wealth but came up with nothing in the end. It is only till After he becomes a slave Mustafa realizes the evil consequences of a life devoted to the search of profit that sends the Spanish in search of nonexistent
5/10/17
3rd block
Ms. Fowler
PART 1
The moors account uses a motif of Flight and Flying but more specifically freedom by escape, returning home, with largeness of spirit, but all for love. As the Narvaez expedition staggers from one disaster to another, Mustafa realizes that his desperate need for the expedition to find the gold is driven by his desire for freedom, which he painfully hopes that Durante’s, his owner, will return to him. Mustafa’s remedy for this hopeless desire is to tell the true story of the expedition, in his own words. After eight years of survival, Mustafa realizes that he will never be free unless he leaves Durante’s, and the corruption of white Spanish rule. His own understanding of his condition of slavery waxes and wanes as he sees and understands what the Spanish do to the Indians, and how the Indians accept or rebel against Spanish rule. While Mustafa is enslaved he is on a quest for truth and freedom. Mustafa wants to have …show more content…
He’s a Moor that is forced to sell himself into slavery to take care of his family. But before that, Mustafa had been a successful merchant, that sold and bought many slaves. When his city came under siege many lost their jobs, including Mustafa. Mustafa feels it was his greed as a merchant that led to him being forced to sell himself into slavery, since he had gotten so greedy he had sold slaves of his own. Mustafa cares greatly about his family and constantly thinks back to them and wishes for the freedom to return to his home. During Mustafa’s enslavement, he wished to regain his freedom and he states, “The world is not what I wished it to be, but I was alive.” Mustafa was always in search of gold and wealth but came up with nothing in the end. It is only till After he becomes a slave Mustafa realizes the evil consequences of a life devoted to the search of profit that sends the Spanish in search of nonexistent