Engle, Margarita. Hurricane
Dancers.
Henry Holt/macmillan children's
pub group 2011 145p 16.99 978-0-8050-9240-0
ms/jr Historical E-BN
Based
on a true story this fictionalized version of the incident
tells the poetic story of
the Indian, the hostage and the pirate. They were
shipwrecked on one of the
Islands of the Caribbean, with their destinies
intertwine. The account of
the first shipwreck in the Americas in the 1500. Quebrado
is a child of the
Americas, half islander, half outsider - most likely
Spaniard. He has been
traded from pirate ship to ships in the Caribbean sea for
as long as he can
remember. He has
forgotten was freedom is like as he serves in the latest ship
manned by Bernardino de Talavera was the first Caribbean
pirate who was
shipwrecked with a hostage on board. A man who was cruel to
all his slaves on
his plantation, working them to death but never able to
rise above the debt to
become a rich man. Finally giving up and stealing a ship
with a motley crew of
misfits. He take hostage the Alonso de Ojeda, The cruel
Governor of Venezuela,
who ruled with an iron hand with many deaths along his
road to success.
The destiny of
these three men come together in a shipwreck that leaves only
three survivors. Quebrado finds himself finally free. He
is found by the natives
living on the island and is taken in and treated very
kindly. Just as he settles
into a peaceful life the other two survivors appear in
ragged clothes and with
demands. Now that Quebrado has found freedom he must
decide how to deal with
these two men who do not understand the meaning of
kindness, consideration or
respect.
Very poetically told story of a historical incident. Diaz, Magna
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