Coming Of Age In The Dawnland Vs Plymouth Plantation

The multiple primary and secondary sources help you understand the values and perspectives of how it was as an early American. The Plymouth Plantation and The General History of Virginia were both stories based off of primary sources by explorers that were entering America and trying to find land to settle down on but conflict arose between the Explorers and Native Americans. The other source called, “Coming of Age in the Dawnland-Secondary” was information pulled by a secondary source about Native American culture and their values as an Native American. The Early Americans had many values for land, culture, and survival.

First, the Native Americans and Explorers, both had values for land. The main problem they had, is that they both

In the story, “Coming of Age in the Dawnland”, it described the two different cultures between the English and Native American families. They were viewed with different values between the two. The author, Charles Mann, stated, “Europeans in those days tended to view children as moving straight from infancy to adulthood around the age of seven, and often they sent them out to work. Indian parents, by contrast, regarded the years before puberty as a time of playful development, and kept their offspring close by until marriage”(Mann pg. 29). This shows that they each had different culture views as in raising a family or other things. John Smith says, “ Each hour expecting the fury of the savages, when God, the patron of all good endeavors, in that desperate extremity so changed the hearts of the savages that they brought such plenty of their fruits and provision as no man wanted”(Smith pg. 4). This shows that they mention God a lot in the story and that their culture or religion ties back to God. They believed that God was the key to everything. John Smith tied back a lot of his resources involving God in them. Their cultures showed the difference between the two and helped the reader understand more about the Early

They had trouble finding food, exploring to find land and dealing with people getting diseases around them. Especially, during the winter time, they had trouble. The “Plymouth Plantation” helped you realize more about the troubles the explorers went through when trying to find land. One of the explorers that survived during the starving time, William Bradford says, “But was most sad and lamentable was, that in two or three months time half of their company died,especially in January and February”(Bradford pg.15). This shows that people went through difficulties on trying to survive during storms or especially during the winter times. More than half of their guys died from harsh weather, diseases,etc. They valued survival so much because that was one of the problems they had. The Native Americans and Explorers would try to kill each other, so that was one of the reason they had to deal with survival. Charles Mann, gave information in this passage saying, “Women and children were rarely killed, though they were sometimes abducted and forced to join the winning group”(Mann 31).This shows that they had to deal with survival anywhere because of the hatred the two groups of people had for each other. Survival was a very important thing as an Early American because of the different things that they dealt with on the daily. The Explorers had to risk their lives when sailing in