I was drawn to the picture and believe that the author would like the representation of Malinztin. This picture portrays Malintzin as a very young and beautiful women, which I believe the author would strongly believe. The author states that Cortes gave Malinztin to Puertocarrero who was a cousin of an influential nobleman who could possibly help raise Cortes status at home,p.37. The act of Cortes for the author reaffirmed the fact of what many that were involved with the conquest that Mainztin was a very beautiful and self-assured women. In this picture she is dressed plainly with a little decorative jewelry which would be appropriate because the author believed that Malintzin came from a noble family but may have been the daughter of a concubine not the lead wife.
The thing that the author would disagree with in this image would be that she looks to be very innocent. Which the author would disagree with because she states that since she was a slave at a young age she was a determined and focused young women who realized the position that she was forced into and made the best out of it.
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