Benito Cereno is often cited as a powerful statement on enslavement in the U.S. Now that you have finished the novella, what are your thoughts about how Herman Melville depicted this practice? Does the novella depict enslavement in a negative or a positive light? Who do we sympathize with at the conclusion of the story? What should we make of Delano’s blindness?

-The Author Herman Melville shows some of what was happening in the past in America. This means that whatever happened in the past is worse because stories do not always fully show the facts. I see that there is no main person in this story because everyone lost his life, but I really feel sad and bad for all the characters. Knowing that they can improve those weak points and making the reader interesting in the topic.

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