Ojeda In Hurricane Dancers

Hurricane Dancers is primarily poetic fiction. For example, Bernardino de Talavera, the pirate who captures Quebrado, Ojeda, and other slaves, says “I offered the illusion of mercy/and Ojeda was desperate enough/to believe me.” (10) The author portrays Ojeda as an assassin killing for glory. But Ojeda seems weak in Talavera’s flashback, falling for his “fake mercy”. If the author kept Ojeda’s killer trait, Ojeda wouldn’t have certainly fallen for Talavera’s lie. But instead, Ojeda does fall for his lie, and this is inaccurate because the author meant to portray Ojeda a separate way, as a killer who would think for himself with no fear. Moreover, Bernardino says about Ojeda, “Knights who have lost/their guns and swords/are remarkably easy/to