Starving Time Jamestown

During 1607 Jamestown Virginia was founded, and was named after King James I. Jamestown became the “first permanent English settlement” in North America, which was something huge to achieve during those times (“The Starving Time”: John Smith Recounts the Early History of Jamestown, 1609, n.d., para. 1). During 1609-1610, a disastrous event occurred throughout Jamestown which was called the, “Starving time”. In 1607, the organizers all had visions of what they wanted to achieve for Jamestown. Visions of obtaining great wealth and letting the settlement be greatly known across North America. Though, those visions went away after the colony went into complete chaos and the colonists were left to face harsh conditions.

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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