Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakaae a MacLeish i whakamahia e ia te whakaekenga o te mana Nazi o Austria, te Anschluss, hei turanga mo te mahi. E ai ki a MacLeish, ko te whakatakotoranga o te whakaari i whakauruhia e te taone Aztec o Tenochtitlan, i tae atu ia ki te tau 1929, me te mea nui
te wikitoria o te taone nui kaore he aukati a Hernán Cortés i te 1521, e ai ki te korero a te toa o te wa a Bernal Díaz del Castillo. I whakamahia hoki e ia he pakiwaitara Aztec e korero ana mo tetahi wahine i hoki mai i te hunga mate ki te poropiti i te hinganga o Tenochtitlan i mua noa i tana wikitoria.