Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, written by Nathaniel Philbrick, can be described as a nonfiction that explores the initial fifty-five years of the Pilgrims' lifel in the New World. Philbrick inspects the Pilgrims' voyage by isolating the Mayflower into four fundamental segments; Discovery, Accommodation, Community, and War. In the first section, Philbrick discusses the hardships of the individuals from Jacobean England, and their departure from Holland because of religious tolerance. While in the second segment, Philbrick examines the rising bitterness in neighboring tribes, due to Pilgrims’ close association with the Pokanokets. As the new settlement ascends in Massachusetts, the third section depicts a period of joy
In November 1620, the Pilgrims sailed to Plymouth Rock after a long three-week journey from England. Many left England for religious freedom, to colonize a new world, or to escape persecution (Queen). Over the course of time, the colonists moved the Indians out, formulated a government, and created commerce. On the other side of the Atlantic, King Charles II was allowed to regain the throne of England. Within three weeks the colonists felt effects of tyranny (Jaycox).
Puritan Separatists/Plymouth Plantation/Pilgrims/Mayflower Compact: Puritan Separatists were a group of English Puritans who left England to seek religious freedom. They first went to the Netherlands, and in 1620 to America. They were sponsored by Thomas Weston and other merchants who had received a patent for a settlement from the Virginia Company of London. Eighteen families went across the Atlantic in the Mayflower with the agreement that they would send back goods to England to pay for their new land. In November of 1620, the Mayflower landed at Plymouth, outside the bounds of Virginia.
The Pilgrims were interested in gaining wealth once they established their new colony. Years later, the Puritan started a colony in Massachusetts. The Puritans believed that everyone should study Christianity. The Pilgrims believe that everyone has a right to choose what religion that they want to and no one should be forced.
Of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower there were 41 Christian Puritan Separatists known as the Leiden group. They were called Pilgrims by the other passengers. They were seeking a new life of religious freedom after being exiled by the Church of England. The Pilgrims (Puritans) drafted an agreement, the mayflower compact, which had rules that would guide and help them to establishing a new community amicably. The Mayflower Compact was signed on November 21, 1620 and served as the official Constitution of the Plymouth Colony.
Bradford describes how bleak the people’s situation was, “especially in January and February, being the depth of winter, and wanting houses and other comforts; being infected with the scurvy and other diseases which the long voyage and their inaccommodate condition had brought upon them” (lines 10-12). The strategy of imagery used in the excerpt paints a picture of the Separatist’s trials and sufferings. The imagery allows the younger generations to mentally see the setting and scenery of the events and how it affected the people of the time. With great diction, Bradford explains how “in the time of most distress, there was but six or seven persons who to their great commendations, be it spoken, spared no pains night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health… did all the homely and necessary offices… willingly and cheerfully” (lines 13-15,16,17). In this example, Bradford uses the strategy of illustrative diction to establish a writing style that will emphasize these men and their importance during the winter.
The Pilgrims were known as the good people seeking religious freedom, but on that Mayflower ship, only 35 of the 102 people aboard were Pilgrim’s. The rest of the folk’s aboard were just ordinary people seeking fortunes in the new Virginia colony, according to Loewen (P.393). Pilgrims are made out to be great people but very few know exactly happened when they settled in America and what happened between them and the Indians. In Loewen writing he says when they became hungry, Pilgrims began to dig up Indian corpses to eat and worked as servants for Indians at times (P.396). The ships also brought over a plague killing entire villages (p.399), but textbooks leave this out to make it seem like they were these founders for the land of the
This event was in all textbooks, but every book describes it differently. Some say the Pilgrim's destination was Virginia, then one man says they wanted to be as far away as they could from Virginia. The textbooks who say their destination was Virginia states that their reasoning was because there was already a British settlement there. In the textbooks there are many different reasons as to why the Pilgrims ended up in Massachusetts. The first reason was that a brutal storm blew their ship of its designated route.
This is an acrylic Collage of mixed media on a bored painted in 1995 named Club Scout, Scout (girl), Scout (boy), and Brownie. This image is about American scouting organizations, founded in the twentieth century. The American scouting organizations promoted self-reliance, physical strength, and knowledge of the outdoor. This is a portrait of four black children three boys and one girl. This is a great fir for illustrated version of Native Son, because this collage resembles Bigger Thomas and his friends G. H., Gus, and Jack.
Puritans disagreed with the people who followed Church of England which made them secede and practice on their own. Although, leaving the church made Puritans victimized. Puritans that separated, Separatists, strayed away from the Church of England and made a pact with the Virginia Company of London to voyage the May Flower to Virginia. The Separatists, also referred as Pilgrims, landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Pilgrims did not believe they were under jurisdiction of the Virginia Company of London so they created the Mayflower Compact which was an agreement of majority rule and a promise to defend any other member of the group if ejected.
the settlers' first winter in the new land. The voyage over "fast and furious seas" was dangerous and miserable. Many of the Pilgrims suffered from seasickness, and they also endured the hateful taunting and verbal abuse of some of the rough sailors who made up the crew. A terrible situation created about part of the way through the voyage when one of the main beams broke, making it exceptionally unverifiable that the ship could finish the voyage. Brief repairs were made, and the ship cruised on, now and then meeting with rough tempests that constrained them to drop the sails and float defenselessly in the sea.
In fact, he later formed his book, “Of Plymouth Plantation”, from all the documents and records he collected on the Mayflower. In his book, Bradford describes the adversity the ship faced. The journey was difficult on both its crammed 100+ passengers, in which only 44 survived, as well as the ship itself.
Religious persecution, another ordeal, led colonists to flee England for America searching for the freedom to express their own religion. An example of this was the Puritans under John Winthrop 's governance. The Puritans made an excursion to New England in hopes of reforming and establishing a new church under God.
The Pilgrim Progress is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678. In this story, John Bunyan used many different symbols to describe hidden meanings. Symbolism is the use of any certain special figures or marks of identification to signify a religious message, for example the cross refers to Jesus Christ and the Christian faith. The author, John Bunyan, used symbolism to describe characters and places and give them a meaning behind it.
In this field observation I attended a catholic mass of a friend’s church. I was born in a Christian family and never thought that I would ever attend a Sunday catholic mass. I only have one friend who still attends a church, a catholic church. I attended this mass with my friend Paul and his family who are Pilipino. Paul was nice enough to let come to his church to be an observer and a bit of a participant.
