Answer the following questions about "The Simple Heart of Wali Dâd": 1. Identify the main characters and the story's setting.
2. How do these characters or the setting contribute to how the story moves?
3. What is the conflict?
4. What events occur to change the direction of the story? Is there one particular event that stands out?
5. How does the story resolve itself? What brings about the end?
6. How would you describe the theme of this tale? (theme is a moral or lesson)
7. What evidence from the story lets you know this is a good theme?

i believe it to be a democracy

according to howard zinn, the history presents the encounter between columbus and the arawaks as a heroic adventure of descovery but leaves in the shades the cruel slavery and bloodshed columbus led in order to pay back to his investors. he sent the indians back to his nation as a payment, slaved them to find gold in the land and punished them when they didn't find any. history presents columbus as a heroe and even celebrates his day, when in reality he led a genocide. zinn describes the story of the colonization from the arawaks point of view.