John Smith vs. Bradford
In comparison to the content of both John Smith's writing from "The General History of Virginia," and William Bradford's excerpt from "Of Plymouth Plantation," showed few similarities and many differences. Almost everything in one of the books is opposite to everything in the other, such as the lack of preparation both Smith's group, and Bradford's group of colonists suffered. Bradford's suffered from the lack of proper clothing for the severe weather in the winter they arrived in, Smith's group suffered from lack of nourishment. Many more similar conflicts appeared in each colony as they began to settle. Because of the lack of food in Smith's colony many colonists became ill and suffered for lack of nourishment. Their leader at the time was very selfish in the way that he had the best food and kept it for himself and refused to share it with the other coloni
Squanto stayed with the colonists for the rest of his life and showed them useful things such as how to work the land, which helped the colony grow. Most became sick from the cold and did not make it through the winter. Smith was permitted to live, and the Indians grew to have a respect for Smith and eventually returned him to his colony. Thereafter Pocahontas and some other tribe members regularly provided essential provisions for the colonists which saved many of their lives. The colonists were then introduced to Squanto who quickly became good friends with colonists which eventually resulted in a friendly treaty between the tribe and the colonists. In Bradford's colony more than half of the colonists died. The Indians had plans to kill Smith, but he was saved from death by the Indian princess Pocahontas. Both situations were remedied by the way of befriending the Indians, whom without the help of, the colonies most likely would not have survived. Because the Indians had lived in the new land, long before the colonists, they knew the land and how to work it. Indians were encountered in both colonies, but each had different reaction in the beginning, but ended up with the same outcome. A major conflict which erupted in Smith's colony was the selfishness of the colonists in the way that they refused to work for themselves to provide shelter or even food. The problems with which the colonists had arrived with were typical problems of a colony starting out, but the difficulties and the problems themselves still differed in each colony. " Bradford's group, on the other hand, was quite selfless. The colonists who had not fallen sick were more than happy to help, and do the work of those who had fallen ill and unable to work for themselves.
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