Compare And Contrast Jamestown Vs Plymouth

Jamestown vs Plymouth We’ve been on this boat for months now, searching and hoping to see the first sign of the new world. We have struggled and gone through a lot of hardships many having to do with the weather, starvation, no clean water and shortness of supplies. My experience in this ship has been horrible we are not able to shower and we are running low on food. People are starving and becoming ill. Many of our men are dying from theses cause. Every other day I watch as men die. Jamestown's captain was John Smith which was a main cause for some of the hardships his people experienced. John Smith was a very selfish greedy man that only cared to make himself look like he was a great person. “To Captain Smith, who by his own example,

Once they set sail for this business venture the people had many hardships including harsh winters, lack of fresh water, the spread of diseases, and they were constantly being attacked by the Algonquin Indians. “But now was all our provisions spent, the sturgeon gone, all help abandoned, each hour expecting the fury of the savages.” (John Smith 5) In this quote you can get a sense of frustration and anger the people from Jamestown experienced after being on this voyage for so long and getting surprise attacks and generally everything that they were going through. After leaving Jamestown they never

In the Struggle for Jamestown, John Smith being the writer portrays himself as being a great leader, selfishly and speaks of himself in third person. In Plymouth Plantation William Bradford doesn’t take all credit and gives it to God in a way and he speaks of himself in 1st person. Although these are two different stories they do have many similarities especially with the problems that came up during the time of the voyages, some being starvation, lack of many things, problems with the weather, problems with the ship, and losing men in result of these