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La Malinche A Persuasive Woman
La Malinche was very persuasive woman, like Jiminy Cricket in the Pinocchio story. She was very talented in languages she knew three in fact, with the skills she had it helped her move forward with her life in becoming free to get away form the life she had and start with a fresh one. La Malinche was born into a higher class so her life was good but that all changed when her father had died and her mother remarried to a local lord and had a son with him and she didn’t want to have La Malinche any more. Her mother wanted her brother to inherit everything but with La Malinche they would have to share the inheritance. So her mother sold her into slavery and told the people in the village that she had died. So with having such a hard life when Cortes found out about her language skills she took advantage of the opportunity Cortes had gave her, she wanted to get out of the …show more content…
She was very smart and personally the she handled it was very smart and strategic but the outcome was not the best. The way she handled the situation was to become Cortes conscience tell him what to do just not very obvious because she didn’t want to get killed. Just like in the Pinocchio story in the story Jiminy Cricket was telling Pinocchio what to do he was innocent unlike jiminy cricket he knew what he saw doing and he knew what he was getting Pinocchio into just Jiminy was doing it for fun unlike La Malinche she knew what she wanted to do she was using Cortes as a pon in her game like a chess piece you use then throw away she wanted to feel freedom once again just as she did before. She had all her anger was pent up and blamed it on the Aztec because she was their slave for so many years and all the other events that

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