John Smith and William Bradford both traveled thousands of miles on small ships to achieve religious freedom. The General History of Virginia is a historical narrative written by John Smith. The story describes the rough beginning of religious freedom, and what they had to go through to get it. If I were to settle into a new world, I would join someone brave and determined, like John Smith.…
The chapter mainly discuss about the time when the English first came to Virginia and established their settlements. But at the beginning of the chapter, the author mentioned about how historical documents could be controversial because they were based on eye witness and first hand knowledge. Therefore, such example of Captain John Smith were given.…
In John Smith’s General History, he told about all the good things about New England…
"John Smith, the protagonist of Sherman Alexie's novel Indian Killer, is a man caught between the white world and the Indian world, and at home in neither. He is a full-blooded Native American Indian, but was raised by whites, and knows little about his Indian roots. As a result of these circumstances, and the fact that he is a man who appears to be an Indian in a nation of prejudice against Indians, he is a man without…
In the novella The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, is a highly reliable narrator or the storyline. Holden communicates his emotions truly and leaves them embedded in the text uncensored throughout the text. For example, upon meeting two nuns in a restaurant in New York City, he genuinely states that he “enjoyed talking to them a lot… [he] meant it, too” (Salinger 112). This quote represents how Holden strongly reveals any true emotions he feels to the reader. Holden also does not cease to inform readers of certain events in the plot even if it affects the reader’s comfort depending on what is being discussed. For instance, when he recalls an interaction with Jane Gallagher after an encounter with her step-father, Holden persisted to include the various places he began to kiss Jane and even stated “it was the closest [they] ever got to necking” (Salinger 79). This blatant honesty and inclusion of details makes him a trustworthy and reliable narrator.…
John Smith and William Bradford were prominent writers and colonial leaders during the Puritan and Pilgrim era. However, both had different ways of conveying their thoughts and experiences during their travels and time in the New World. Those different ways included, but were not limited to, how they wrote about their interactions with the Native Americans, how the crews interacted with each other, and how God was perceived in their eyes.…
They described America as not only the new world but as a place for opportunity and dreams. Their writings reflected the colonist view away from the restrictions of British society. Captain John Smith, using a fairly simple and open narrative, provided detailed maps and descriptions of the areas in addition to adventurous tales of his own and others. William Bradford wrote of his experiences in the new world but his text was based largely on his Puritan faith and compared their quest heavily to that of Paul's in the Bible. Despite Bradford's more rational style of writing, he also saw the new world as a land of…
John Fire Lame Deer is a Native American who has been raised in two completely different worlds. One being a world of animistic beliefs tightly binding Native American communities and the other being the capitalistic world of the European-American. John Fire Lame Deer participated in a popular rite of passage among Native American tribes known as the vision quest allowing him his first glimpse of the spirit world. By looking at John Fire Lame Deer's experiences as a Native American growing up in a culture that is slowly being eradicated by a larger more dominant culture we can see how his experiences and actions have created his unique views of American culture today.…
b. John Smith: Captain of Jamestown settlers (veteran of war in Europe), believed Powhatan was a great man, but then understood he had alterior motives, started to burn the Indian villages for more food. Smith was known to be very strict and very picky about detail.…
William Bradford and John Smith are very similar people with two very different perspectives. Bradford, originally from England, led his colonists to America where they landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He became the governor of the colony for 30 years. Smith, who is also from England, led colonist to Virginia where they founded Jamestown. He then became the president of the Virginia. Both of their narratives were written in the seventeenth century and paint a vivid picture about what their lifestyles were like. Although they have the same heritage and similar leadership, Bradford and Smith prove that they lived and had very different perspectives about the new world, which is expressed in their…
John Neihardt writes this biography because Black Elk came to him with the purpose of showing Americans both physical and emotional pain they’ve inflicted on them in desire to expand the United States. This biography isn’t only for sorrow; it’s of great appreciation to the Native Americans because this is the first of their stories that is actually being documented. Having written by a white man is of great importance because through this biography the readers see that Black Elk is hostile toward white men.…
It seemed like one of his main goals after he started writing must have been to change people’s minds about what their image of an “Indian” is. “It was always about Plains, Indians, or the Navahos (42).” In this part of the story he said that the books they were assigned to read at school about Indians were written by non-Indians and had a sort…
From these journals, we see the perspective of the American men who journeyed west and how their presence effected trade relations and peace with the Native American tribes. Yes, many argue that the journals, and the expedition itself, lack importance due to individuals moving west, even before the expedition returned to St. Louis. However, from the evidence provided in the words of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, historians can see the effects of the interaction with the Corps of Discovery and Native Americans and the suppression of Sacajawea’s perspective not recorded in the journals. This expedition is a part of American history, whether or not people enjoy the story or simply want to forget. Americans need to address and confront the truth; not disregard the facts because it makes them uncomfortable, like it seems to do to Stephen Ambrose. America cannot be the land of the free if the American government continues to lie to its people and native tribes that the government once made promises to. America needs to apologize and begin to make amends for what occurred during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, giving Native Americans an ultimatum to either: assimilate, relocate, or face death for not cooperating, and giving Sacajawea a false voice furthering their longing for Manifest Destiny and Imperialist ideologies. The government could have brought Native American’s on the journey of progress but instead let racial superiority exist between Americans and Natives. We as a nation, by studying the negative affects during and after the expeditions return to the United States, can begin to mend and abolish hostility that the expedition caused. Overall, working…
He witnessed savages, attacking and destroying the lives of his crew, which shows that the visions of achieving wealth was going to effect the Native Americans negatively, which conveys to the readers why the Native Americans took such horrible action amongst John Smith’s crew. He begins to go into detail on the living conditions they were left to face. He had to deal with watching savages attack and eat other human bodies, when no food or anything eatable was available. The dreadful conditions that occurred throughout those times are hard to imagine even capable of happening within today’s society. John Smith states how, a man killed his own wife and cut up her body and was left to eat her up. Readers are able to identify, the in depth context of the word “savages” was used throughout his story in order to identify the Native Americans. The following shoes, how the Native Americans negatively impacted the Jamestown settlers and left them to suffer harsh conditions. The story of George Percy, includes into detail about what happened during the “Starving Times”. It concludes that starvation was…
Although often viewed as inferior, savage and helpless, many historians are starting to discover the intelligence and wisdom the Indians had and shared with the colonists that came to America so long ago. As the settlers slowly began to create a new world on the already inhabited North America, they were plagued with starvation due to a severe drought in the area. Due to the dry lands and the settlers expectations to “rely on Indians for food and tribute,” (Norton 17) they were disappointed to find that the Indians were not so keen to handing out food and help to the strangers that have just come onto their land and begun to settle in such a time of severe weather and starvation. As time goes on, both the Indians and the Englishmen realize they both have what the other needs; tools from the white men and crops, land and knowledge from the Indians. As a result, the chief of Tsenacomoco, Powhatan, and colonist, Captain John Smith on an ideally peaceful, mutualistic relationship to ensure the survival of both civilizations. This agreement will leave the groups in cahoots for 100 of years leading to some disastrous scenarios and betrayals.…