One day during a history, Annie gets bored, she knows the material and begins to read ahead of the class in her book. She finds out Christopher Columbus was thrown in prison later in his life for having disrespecting the Queen. "What just deserts, I thought, for I did not like Columbus. How I loved this picture—to see the usually triumphant Columbus, brought so low, seated by the bottom of the boat watching things go by." Annie sees a picture of him and writes "The Great Man Can No Longer