Question

What sensory imagery can you use to describe the Taino perspective on the encounter with the Europeans?

Answer 1

• The Taino people were the original inhabitants of the Caribbean island of La Hispaniola (now Dominican Republic and Haiti). When the Spanish colonists arrived, they established their first permanent settlement in the island. The Taino were quickly exterminated through warfare and disease.

• Sensory imagery are the images that are created in someone's head when they read a narrative or a poem. It is created through the descriptions of things that the reader cannot himself experience.

To create sensory images of this event, we would need to imagine what a Taino person felt, heard, smelled, touched and saw as the Spanish colonizers arrived to their island and in the subsequent years.