Dallas Lovejoy
Ms. Fordahl
English 11
4/9/14
Stories of the New World
The stories we read took place
during the 16th and 17th centuries. These stories were
about settlers arriving in America. The settlers are the Puritans and the
Quakers are the people who were coming to America during this time. There is a
lot going on in the world right now people are leaving their home countries to
explore new land. Quakers and Puritans have a few differences one being the
Puritans lived life by a strict code. The Quakers on the other hand lived life
a bit more care free. One more is the Quakers took in peoples beliefs while the
Puritans kicked you out if you didn’t believe what they believed in. An idea
that came up in the video was that the Puritans were actually jealous of the
Quakers and their way of life.
The General
History of Virginia is about the early 1600’s encounter between John Smith,
Pocahontas, and her father. The story takes place during the 16th
and 17th centuries. The story tells the tale of how John Smith was
captured and beaten by the Indians that captured him because his boat was sunk.
They took him to a place called Werowocomoco. The King greeted him there but
then they just brought John over to a shack and left him there. Two days later
John met Pocahontas. She was the one who comforted him when he was hurting and
she even gave him some food when he was lacking energy. John Smith was an English explorer, soldier,
and author. He was the Prince of Transylvania and was considered to be very
important in the establishment of the first English colonies.
The story Of
Plymouth Plantation is about the journey the Pilgrams took to get to America.
It chronicles their struggles on the ship to get here and how a lot of the
people on the ship died before the ship even arrived on land. Then when the
settlers got to land it didn’t get any better because they still had no idea
how to make food or where to wash their clothes or anything. Then they also didn’t
realize that there were other people on this land already. The Native Americans
were stunned to see white people now on their land. The Natives helped the
white people get started and taught them how to grow other crops like corn and
potatoes. William Bradford was founder and longtime governor of the of the Plymouth
colony. Bradford was among the members on the mayflower trans-Atlantic.
Bradford helped draft its legal code.
Sinners in
the Hands of an Angry God is a story about how the author is telling us about
how we as a society need to be more respectful of god and the things we take
for granted. We also need to realize that at any moment god could just drop us
out of his hand and we will land in Hell.
The author also says that we are already going to hell and that there is
nothing that we can do about it. The author does say that the only way we can
escape this is to go towards Jesus at the door. Jonathan Edwards is widely
acknowledged to be america’s most important physiological theologian and one of
America’s greatest intellectual’s.
I think this
history just infatuated the events that occurred during the Salem witch
trials. I know the Salem Witch trials is
when the Puritans hung a bunch of Quakers over a period of weeks. I think the
crucible is going to be about the Puritans preparing for the executions of the
Quakers. The Quakers will have no idea it’s coming and they will be totally
shocked. I think the crucible will be the turning point of the relationship
between the Quakers and Puritans.
