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Comparing Movie 'Pocahontas And The General History Of Virginia'
Madison Ellison

Pocahontas has seen a vision of a spinning arrow; a vision she believes is telling her change is coming. Everyone knows Disney’s movies are the fairytale endings that anyone would love to have during their life. From a kiss to wake up a sleeping princess to love at first sight, anything is imaginable throughout the films. Even Pocahontas fell in love with Caption John Smith while he came to explore the New World. Or did they? In the Disney movie “Pocahontas” there are conflicting facts from “The General History of Virginia” by John Smith; in each there are differences like appearance, location, and happily ever after endings.

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