When I read the Christopher Columbus story, throughout the entire story, all I continued to think about was how Columbus was trying to justify his cruel actions and mistakes with the audience’s sympathy. If he could attain the audience’s empathy, then he would not have to suffer, emotionally and physically, for his mistreatment of the Indians and neglectfulness to keep control over the new land he stole. I specifically chose this picture because, every time Columbus tried to convince the audience that he was the innocent man within the conflicts, he was in fact the main criminal at hand. Columbus is the one who brutally forced the Indians off their land. He was the one who did not completely ensure the efficient productivity of the new world. When someone receives continuous persecutions, they usually are not coincidental. There usually are logical reasons as support for such prosecutions. Even if there were not any justifying facts to back up these accusations, then Columbus should have been more mature about these problems and dealt with them in a more masculine manner. Instead, he chose to try to justify himself by blaming others and using pathos to try to get the audience’s emotions to lean towards him.