Zinn's Purpose Analysis
Zinn’s Purpose On page 7, Zinn stated “ When we read the history books given to children in United States, it all starts with heroic adventure-there is no bloodshed-and Columbus is a celebration.” This quote shows how the winners writes history. History is suppose to be where we can learn from our past and progress as an society, but throughout history, there are always cases that winners writes history and they changed or ignored the facts that are important for our society progress as a whole. Zinn uses compare and contrast to show how he views the native people and Columbus and his sailors. Zinn wrote about the difference between the native people and Columbus and his sailors. He describes the native people as “naked, tawny, and
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Native people are smart because they perfected the art of agriculture, also they are non-violent society. Compare to Columbus’s group, they wanted gold and source of labor, so they refused to return same kind of generosity back to the Arawak Indians so they caused genocide to help themselves to reach their “goals”, and we can describe these people heartless and hypocritical. Up to this point native people are clearly the more advanced society as a whole compare to Columbus and his sailors. Another point of Zinn’s argument is Columbus and the Arawak Indians are not the only historic case that a group of people mistreated others because of their own needs. Zinn uses other examples to shows history is repeated and Columbus’s case isn’t the only case that happened. In order to prevent that from happening again we have to learn the history from the winner's point of view other people’s point of view as well. Overall, Zinn’s purpose is in order to let a society advance as a whole, we have to learn the past, not only the winner’s side, but as well as the other people’s perspective to understand history. Although he said he is not taking a side, but his argument clearly shows which side is he on, and who society is more advance than other. The truth about the past is the key to
Native people are smart because they perfected the art of agriculture, also they are non-violent society. Compare to Columbus’s group, they wanted gold and source of labor, so they refused to return same kind of generosity back to the Arawak Indians so they caused genocide to help themselves to reach their “goals”, and we can describe these people heartless and hypocritical. Up to this point native people are clearly the more advanced society as a whole compare to Columbus and his sailors. Another point of Zinn’s argument is Columbus and the Arawak Indians are not the only historic case that a group of people mistreated others because of their own needs. Zinn uses other examples to shows history is repeated and Columbus’s case isn’t the only case that happened. In order to prevent that from happening again we have to learn the history from the winner's point of view other people’s point of view as well. Overall, Zinn’s purpose is in order to let a society advance as a whole, we have to learn the past, not only the winner’s side, but as well as the other people’s perspective to understand history. Although he said he is not taking a side, but his argument clearly shows which side is he on, and who society is more advance than other. The truth about the past is the key to