De Vaca Rhetorical Analysis

America was first conquered by the conquistadors. What was not expected was the harshness and savageness of the native population of the Americas. One Spanish Explorer, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was such an explorer who documented his 8 years with a group of Native Americans known as the Karankawas. In his narrative, De Vaca, diminishes the stereotype of what Europeans believed the Native Americans were.
He uses Imagery to show what a desperate condition his men were in. He creates this image of his crew by using words like “naked” and “starving”. His use of imagery also established the vulnerability and rawness of his crew.
De Vaca uses diction to describe the indians as very tall people “they looked like giants to us in our fright” ,which