Billy Pilgrim

similarly succeed in their endeavors (Bartlett 296). The settlement at Plymouth Bay for the pilgrims in 1620 was characterized by a harsh winter that led to the deaths of many settlers, forcing the pilgrims to adopt the farming techniques of the Indians in order to ensure bountiful harvests during the next harvest season. William Bradford forged an alliance with the Indian tribe that ensured that the pilgrims adopted best farming practices suited for the new land (Burnham…

Europe, it helped shape the system and even stabilized economic needs for villages. Furthermore, villages developed into towns due to the increase in pilgrim numbers. Cathedrals were found among the pilgrimage routes. Relics were part of the Cathedral experience. The relics represented a miracle or a supernatural power that could help the pilgrims that completed the journey. The relics contributed to the financial stability of the church…

The first Thanksgiving was in 1621. It all started when Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast with Pilgrims from Plymouth. That feast is now known as Thanksgiving. Most people now celebrate a more modern Thanksgiving. Everyone celebrates Thanksgiving differently. We still celebrate what we are thankful for but we do that in different ways. One thing modern Thanksgivings have in common is we eat similar food. The food we eat that is similar is turkey and Pumpkin pie.…

menu of the First Thanksgiving was much different. The smaller birds were spit-roasted, while the bigger birds were boiled. Birds were likely stuffed, though not how we stuff them today. Instead they were stuffed with chunks of onions and herbs. The pilgrims probably ate eels and shellfish like, lobsters, clams, and mussels. Thing have changed about Thanksgiving meals over the years. And other things ever since then. In 1637 Groton, Connecticut, over 700…

Piety, courage, and industry, were the Pilgrims’ most cherished values. They were thought such a necessity because of each values’ strong place in building a stable and prosperous community, as well as keeping a “morally” intact society, the “new Jerusalem.” But “paradise” is not to be gained without challenge and great effort against the “enemy of God” and they came in the form of hardship, privation, and fear. Bradford, Winthrop, Bradstreet, and Edwards wrote of these hardships that they and…

On one hand, we have the poem ‘Medusa’ by Carol Ann Duffy, in a dramatic monologue based on a mythical creature, Medusa, whose insecurity and jealousy leads her to believe that her husband is cheating on her. Consequently, she turns into a gorgon who turns anything she looks at to stone. On the other hand ,we have ‘Les Grandes Seigneurs’ by Dorothy Molloy which is about an aggrandized woman’s romantic relationship with men there to entertain her and to support her self-aggrandizement. However,…

Pardoner. By practicing what he preaches against as a holy figure, the Pardoner establishes himself as an evil character. However, his evil character is challenged by his upfront honesty and the idea of the Pardoner as a tester of faith. By inviting the pilgrims to kiss his relics even after they know the truth about the falsified nature of them, the Pardoner is performing both an evil and holy task, challenging the notion of him being ultimately evil. In terms of how the Pardoner defines…

Fourth Of July & Thanksgiving Last Saturday evening, when I was reading my novel (Brown Girl Dreaming) my dad called me and said “girl it's independent day and you are here playing games on phone”. It was when I finished my homework and started playing games my phone. The Fourth Of July or Independence day , the day when got out freedom . Thanksgiving and Fourth Of July there are a lot of difference and similarities between them. Fourth Of July by best holiday, when you celebrate freedom and…

Thanksgivings Differ If I ever wiped my face off on the tablecloth at the Thanksgiving dinner table, I would probably get smacked by my Mother. But, that is exactly how the Pilgrims and Indians did on their first ever Thanksgiving. Today, I am going to compare and contrast the differences between modern day Thanksgivings and the first ever Thanksgiving. The first person I asked was Dezmyn Abbring, a student at Kankakee Valley, about how he would usually spend his Thanksgiving. Some…

Is there a way to determine where the truth lays when there are two different perspectives on the same situations? Unfortunately, there is no clear cut answer. In William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation and Thomas Morton’s New English Canaan, there are countless discrepancies between each story. Both men seek to defame one another in order to preserve the innocence of their individual characters. They are not exactly successful in their mission when Morton and Bradford spend time discussing…