Comparison Between Historical Accounts
There have always been many different points of view throughout various points in history. Many of these perspectives talk about the same events through different eyes. Of course, there will always be little changes in the accounts here and there, but they generally seem to run along the same course. James Fraser’s By The People and William Polk’s The Birth of America are two examples of different viewpoints on the same historical events. They both offer unique points for the reader to consider, yet they are both very similar as well; they both focus on different groups of people, offer information on different topics, and approach the readers in different ways, but they concentrate on the same events of history.
Fraser’s account offers both European and Native American perspectives. He serves to enlighten readers of the different circumstances …show more content…
He quotes several works throughout his writing that show how others were seen through European eyes, the most prominent of which are in his first chapter, ‘The Native Americans,’ where several comparisons, anatomical and otherwise, are made. Polk does touch upon the customs and various dialects of different American Indian tribes, but this is merely presenting information. He does not serve to show readers what the Africans or the Indians were thinking, unlike how he presents Europeans; though, he did mention in his introduction that there were very few Native American and African remains to be studied. Polk’s narrative is told in first person, though he, like Fraser remains neutral throughout. Polk’s focus is the European side of the story; he tells readers of various European encounters with other people, but only through European eyes. Strangely enough, he rarely mentions Columbus, unlike Fraser. He also does not focus on the events occurring within America, but on different happenings in Europe or
There have always been many different points of view throughout various points in history. Many of these perspectives talk about the same events through different eyes. Of course, there will always be little changes in the accounts here and there, but they generally seem to run along the same course. James Fraser’s By The People and William Polk’s The Birth of America are two examples of different viewpoints on the same historical events. They both offer unique points for the reader to consider, yet they are both very similar as well; they both focus on different groups of people, offer information on different topics, and approach the readers in different ways, but they concentrate on the same events of history.
Fraser’s account offers both European and Native American perspectives. He serves to enlighten readers of the different circumstances …show more content…
He quotes several works throughout his writing that show how others were seen through European eyes, the most prominent of which are in his first chapter, ‘The Native Americans,’ where several comparisons, anatomical and otherwise, are made. Polk does touch upon the customs and various dialects of different American Indian tribes, but this is merely presenting information. He does not serve to show readers what the Africans or the Indians were thinking, unlike how he presents Europeans; though, he did mention in his introduction that there were very few Native American and African remains to be studied. Polk’s narrative is told in first person, though he, like Fraser remains neutral throughout. Polk’s focus is the European side of the story; he tells readers of various European encounters with other people, but only through European eyes. Strangely enough, he rarely mentions Columbus, unlike Fraser. He also does not focus on the events occurring within America, but on different happenings in Europe or