The Way of a Pilgrim

describes his and the Pilgrims voyage to the New World along with their interactions with the Indians. The Generall Historie of Virginia by John Smith describes one of the first English towns in America and its struggle to survive. Finally, ‘Blaxicans’ and Other Reinvented Americans an essay by…

never discovered any treasures to send back to England. The location they decided to colonize upon was an unknown mistake until they saw how the resources were essentially killing them. Undrinkable water, diseases, Native American ambushes, and no way to recover the population devastated the Virginia Company of London and the country of…

Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, he analyzes each of these sins and their influence on the lives of pilgrims making their way to Canterbury. Among these pilgrims, the reader would stumble upon a nun and a pardoner. Although the nun and the pardoner share employment in conjunction with the Catholic Church, the sins of which they are guilty differ immensely, as do their appearances. Among the pilgrims, a woman traveled by the name of Madame Englantine. This woman was a prioress, which was…

the readers of this work. One of the sensory elements in Dante’s Inferno is the darkness that is all throughout the work. This is not just the literal darkness, but this also refers the darkness that is Hell. At the beginning of the work Dante the pilgrim finds himself wondering around a dark forest. In Canto VII Virgil and Dante make it to the Fourth Circle of Hell. This is where many men…

Crow laws played a major role in the plot of the book. The Jim Crow laws were a series of laws and unofficial rules that set the standard for how African Americans should behave in public in the United States, primarily in the South (Pilgrim). According to David Pilgrim, the intended purpose of these laws and rules were to segregate blacks and whites in all parts of society, and to severely restrict the rights of African Americans. Accordingly, these laws and rules included restrictions in…

Vonnegut introduces Billy Pilgrim as someone who was affected by the bombing of Dresden, and someone who is taken by Tralfamadorians (an alien species) to talk to him about their theories of time. There are many ways to react to a catastrophe, but the author emphasizes the significance of confronting it, and Billy Pilgrim does just that. This American classic anti-war novel is relevant to today because it puts a focus on the different reactions to tragic events that both Billy Pilgrim and real…

school Canvas, “When the pilgrims, who settled Plymouth in 1620 and endured a harsh winter where half of the settlers died. The remaining Pilgrims survived mainly with the help of the Wampanoag people, who supplied the English with seeds and tools. At harvest time, as the narrative goes, English settlers and Indians came together to feast and to give thanks.” (Canvas) The English and The Indians are giving each other an offering as a sign of gratitude because the pilgrims would have died if it…

weaving together these primary and secondary sources, Philbrick paints an excellent historical picture of the characters and their respective motives, desires and feelings during Mayflower, making a new and engaging story of the relationship between Pilgrims and their subsequent generations and the indigenous people in…

Reflecting on history always leads a historian to reflect on past experiences in a particular way. When William Apess gave his speech “Eulogy on King Philip” in 1836, the Pequot Indian presented a group of New Englanders with evidence of the group’s own betrayal of the Indian people at a time when, elsewhere in the country, Andrew Jackson and his government brutally expelled thousands of Cherokees and other tribes from their homelands. Apess needed to remind these white Americans of their…

this book, I believed that Billy Pilgrim was a pseudonym for Kurt Vonnegut, and that this story was told so well because he wrote about his own experiences in life and as a prisoner of war. I learned later on that this was not the case; that Billy Pilgrim had been based off of a man that Kurt Vonnegut was a prisoner of war with in World War II. This book was a commentary by Kurt Vonnegut on the effects of war and, specifically, the Dresden bombing. Billy Pilgrim survives this bombing, and he…