Stephanie Simon
AP U.S History
Mr. Moriaca
August 11, 2015
Comparison between Disney 's Pocahontas and the Articles
The story of the settlement of Jamestown is portrayed in a glamorized way in Disney 's Pocahontas. The events were turned it into a children 's movie where everyone finds happiness in the end. The two articles we read, however, shine a new light on the situation, showing the true hostilities that arose during the english settlement of the first explorers. The beginning of the movie shows an only small section of England Where the Englishmen are all to excited and inclined to leave their loved ones and embark on what could be a dangerous journey. However, that was not necessarily true.. England was increasing hurriedly, “rapid …show more content…
In actuality, those very men were dispatched by the local police because they were not “able bodied” (608 Morgan). The other men that were sent to America were the aristocrats that spent their days doing nothing of importance. The people who were sent to the new world were incapable of providing anything of assistance to the english. The men sent to America were inept for the journey and many quickly died of diseases or starvation. Only a tenth of the men originally sent actually made it to The New World. In Pocahontas they show six men arrive at America and imply that was all the men to have originally ventured out into America. The Englishmen started their journey with two false conceptions. One, that there was gold, and two, that the indians, or native americans, would help them find it. This, the movie portrays accurately. What the movie fails to accurately depict is that the native americans were being killed off with disease infected blankets given to them by the English settlers. “First alien microbes killed a vast number of natives,” (593 …show more content…
It did not go in depth about the true horrors that occurred. Although both the Englishmen and the native americans were hostile, the Englishmen forced the native americans out of their home town and killed then off. The Englishmen were merciless and stripped them of their
AP U.S History
Mr. Moriaca
August 11, 2015
Comparison between Disney 's Pocahontas and the Articles
The story of the settlement of Jamestown is portrayed in a glamorized way in Disney 's Pocahontas. The events were turned it into a children 's movie where everyone finds happiness in the end. The two articles we read, however, shine a new light on the situation, showing the true hostilities that arose during the english settlement of the first explorers. The beginning of the movie shows an only small section of England Where the Englishmen are all to excited and inclined to leave their loved ones and embark on what could be a dangerous journey. However, that was not necessarily true.. England was increasing hurriedly, “rapid …show more content…
In actuality, those very men were dispatched by the local police because they were not “able bodied” (608 Morgan). The other men that were sent to America were the aristocrats that spent their days doing nothing of importance. The people who were sent to the new world were incapable of providing anything of assistance to the english. The men sent to America were inept for the journey and many quickly died of diseases or starvation. Only a tenth of the men originally sent actually made it to The New World. In Pocahontas they show six men arrive at America and imply that was all the men to have originally ventured out into America. The Englishmen started their journey with two false conceptions. One, that there was gold, and two, that the indians, or native americans, would help them find it. This, the movie portrays accurately. What the movie fails to accurately depict is that the native americans were being killed off with disease infected blankets given to them by the English settlers. “First alien microbes killed a vast number of natives,” (593 …show more content…
It did not go in depth about the true horrors that occurred. Although both the Englishmen and the native americans were hostile, the Englishmen forced the native americans out of their home town and killed then off. The Englishmen were merciless and stripped them of their