Comparing Blood On The River And The Disney Movie Pocahontas

Blood on the River and the Disney movie Pocahontas are very similar because both have most of the same characters. Both also had arguments between each other but in the Disney movie Pocahontas near the end of the movie Pocahontas sacrificed herself for one of the main characters John Smith whenever her dad was going to kill him and Chief Powhatan made peace with the colonists. John Ratcliffe wasn’t happy with this agreement so he got a gun and aimed for Chief Powhatan, but John Smith sacrificed his life and got shot, he was immediately brought back to England by ship. In the book Blood on the River, the colonists and Native Americans did have arguments, and did fight and killed many people because the Native Americans felt that the colonists took their land and abused it, “They have robbed the Indians’ temples? Taken the jewels from the bodies of their dead werowances? Set their houses on fire?”(pg. 190) The colonists just wanted the Indians’ jewels and wanting treasure. Both the movie and the book were similar in many ways but also had many differences. In Pocahontas George Percy was a dog while in Blood on the River he was a human of which he warned the other colonists to not come to Jamestown because of what all was going on with the fighting and violence, in his letter he wrote the names of the people that had died and what day of the journey that had died. …show more content…
In Pocahontas, John Smith and Pocahontas had romance going on between the two, while in Blood on the River there was no romance between the two at all. It was Samuel that Pocahontas gave a smirk to, not John Smith, “Pocahontas recognizes me and smiles.” (pg. 161) In the movie, Pocahontas made peace between the two cultural backgrounds and there was no war at the end. While in the book, they had war/ fought more than