Andrew Parrill
Christopher McBride
LITR 220
July 18, 2017 John Smith & Pocahontas
In the time period of Captain John Smith, the world relied almost solely upon the words left behind in letters and journals from explorers. John Smith, left England in last 1606 with a fleet of three ships in search of the new world and what resources it had that could be useful to their majesty back in England. In 1995, Disney Pictures decided to create a film called “Pocahontas” which was to be based off of John Smith’s A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia since the First Planting of that Colony.
In A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia since the First Planting of that Colony, John Smith writes the small about of time that he spent in the New World. When the movie begins, John Smith is portrayed as a lively, free captain who would do anything for his crew but according to his letter’s, and other pieces of history, he was actually jailed on the ship, until the actual captain opened the orders given to them once they reached the new land that said that he was to be part …show more content…
Seeing the love and courage of his daughter, he clams he will not kill John Smith and instead tells him that he will always be welcome in his village. In his writings, he writes “Opechankanough sent also unto us, that for his sake, we would release two that were his friends: and for a token, sent me his shooting Glove and Bracer, which the day our men was taken upon; separating himselfe from the rest a long time, intreated to speake with me, where in token of peace, he had preferred me the same”. While both of these show that Powhatan becoming understanding and accepting of John Smith, they do so in completely different
Christopher McBride
LITR 220
July 18, 2017 John Smith & Pocahontas
In the time period of Captain John Smith, the world relied almost solely upon the words left behind in letters and journals from explorers. John Smith, left England in last 1606 with a fleet of three ships in search of the new world and what resources it had that could be useful to their majesty back in England. In 1995, Disney Pictures decided to create a film called “Pocahontas” which was to be based off of John Smith’s A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia since the First Planting of that Colony.
In A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia since the First Planting of that Colony, John Smith writes the small about of time that he spent in the New World. When the movie begins, John Smith is portrayed as a lively, free captain who would do anything for his crew but according to his letter’s, and other pieces of history, he was actually jailed on the ship, until the actual captain opened the orders given to them once they reached the new land that said that he was to be part …show more content…
Seeing the love and courage of his daughter, he clams he will not kill John Smith and instead tells him that he will always be welcome in his village. In his writings, he writes “Opechankanough sent also unto us, that for his sake, we would release two that were his friends: and for a token, sent me his shooting Glove and Bracer, which the day our men was taken upon; separating himselfe from the rest a long time, intreated to speake with me, where in token of peace, he had preferred me the same”. While both of these show that Powhatan becoming understanding and accepting of John Smith, they do so in completely different