The United States has been a safe location for many people from different countries and time periods. Both "An American Story" and "Of Plymouth Plantation" share many differences and similarities. The two authors are completely different people, but their works are both non-fictional and true stories. "An American Story," written by Anthony Lewis, is an article that tells about the struggles of a Vietnamese family who has tried numerous times in the past to get into the U.S. At some point during their voyage, the Vietnamese family was separated for 15 years. The setting in "Of Plymouth Plantation" took place 400 years ago but the morale of the story still stays the same. William Bradford wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation" and his biography retells the struggles of a group of Puritans and Pilgrims who escaped from England to seek shelter in the U.S. Many of the people aboard the ship had died and therefore, William Bradford's account is equally sad and true. "An American Story" and "Of Plymouth Plantation" have many differences, similarities, and they both tell of a passage to a better place.
"An American Story" and "Of Plymouth Plantation" have numerous differences that separate them apart. The Vietnamese and the Puritans migrated from different countries. The Puritans originally came from England, but they lived for a decade in the Netherlands. The refugees in "An American Story" escaped Vietnam in fear of political violence in the country. Another difference is that they had completely different religions. The Puritans were Christians while the Vietnamese were most likely Buddhist. The number of people who voyaged in both of the stories was different. In "An American Story" only 8 went to the U.S whilst, in "Of Plymouth Planta...
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... a detailed account in his biography and tells about the hardships of the Puritans in New England and their struggles to be accepted and respected by the English in England. By and large, both groups of people were able to turn their hardships and mistreatments into something positive and productive, leading them to a better life.
"Of Plymouth Plantation" and "An American Story" have many similarities, differences, and follow a common passage to a better place. Whether they both fled their countries in fear of persecution or whether they ended up doing different jobs the Puritans and the Vietnamese were able to fulfill most of their aims and live life peacefully. Although they were viewed as foreigners and strangers, the Vietnamese and the Puritans have both put their oars in the water and paddled the U.S to where it is today, a country made up of immigrants.
First, both of the main speakers within each of the following Puritan literary works were ministers during the 1700s, which was around the time of the Puritans. These works were also written within third person point of view. Now, both of these ministers then express their concerns for their congregation
In the novel Huckleberry Finn, Huck goes through many adventures on the Mississippi River. He escapes from Pap and sails down a ways with an escaped slave named Jim. Huck goes through a moral conflict of how wrong it is to be helping Jim escape to freedom. Eventually Huck decides he will go against what society thinks and help Jim by stealing him from a farmer with the help of Tom Sawyer, a friend. In A+P the young man, Sammy, is confronted with an issue when he sees his manager expel some girls from the store he worked in simply because of their defiance to its dress code. In his rebellion against the owner, the boy decides to quit his job and make a scene to defend the rights he feels are being violated. In these stories, both the boys are considered superior to the authority that they are defying because of the courage that it took for Huck to free Jim, and for Sammy to quit his job for the girls because it was what they believed in.
Miller Edwards,Hawthorne and korning each show how religion was a sin in puritan cultures and affected many people’s lives that punishment will come when you have disgraced your religion that good is against the devil there is a strict form of puritan. Puritans were dedicated to work to save themselves from the sins in the world. Guilt was a great force in the puritans belief. The people in the story are Puritans a religion often depicted because of its rules and severe punishments to those who sin. The puritans left england to avoid religious persecution they established a society in America founded upon religion intolerance, Up surprising result the church dominates the Puritan culture.
The seventeenth century was marked with a wide revolution for exploration, to a new world filled with land and opportunity. In William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation, we are given a window into the exclusive lives of the pilgrims and their experiences along their journey to and through Massachusetts. We are able to read the account that “epitomizes the spirit of determination and self-sacrifice that seems to us characteristic of our first ‘Pilgrims.’” Bradford’s narrative plainly, yet elegantly describes the success, failures, triumph and unity in the early beginnings of the new founded puritan community.
Both Jamestown and Plymouth are the part of our history, part of our life. However, they have so many different things between them. But that is the way we build our country. The country which always respects yourself. You have freedom of speech, freedom of religions. There are some conflict between Modern Americans and Native Americans. But It should decrease day by day. If I choose one company to go with, I would choose the Second Group to go to Plymouth. Because I am not recommending to grow tobacco to earn money. And the most significant. Although there are many points are not equivalent, but now we have got a strong country with one of the biggest army in the world. The reason to go with William Bradford, we can find our religion freely. The special thing which we get right now is the freedom of each person and a powerful
Jamestown and Plymouth were both very intense colonies. Jamestown had obligations only for financial purposes. Whereas, Plymouth cared for so much more. It had obligations for a variety of religions. In this colony, people were very fond of God. William Bradford once said, “ Nevertheless, to keep a good conscience. and walk in such a way as God has prescribed in his word, is a thing which I must prefer before you all, and above life itself.” Therefore, Plymouth was far more fair and reasonable, because of their interest in God and their opportunities for their religious variety. Even though, both colonies had many similarities like being helped by Native Americans, and they both encountered sickness, death, and struggle; Plymouth’s purpose
In class we had to read two stories, Quilt of a Country and The Immigrant Contribution. Both of these stories were similar but also very different. I will be telling about the similarities and differences in these two stories.
Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford and A Description of New England by John Smith are essentially irrelevant to one another in the way that each piece has a very different point of view. The author John Smith was a pilgrim who arrived in the Americas and wrote a description of the new land. William Bradford was also a pilgrim who arrived at Plymouth and wrote more about the realities of his personal journey. The purpose of this essay is to contrast the purposes of the writers, their intended audiences, and how each writer gives out a specific feeling.
Many white Americans can retell the story of Pilgrims setting sail on the Mayflower and landing at Plymouth Rock. This great story of Jamestown and European settlements along
Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford gives us an insight into the endurance of the early settlers and the kind of pain they went through in order build the foundation of our great nation. They embarked on the new world and developed a colony from the ground up. However, there troubles started long before they even stepped foot on the land. With a strong hold on their religious beliefs, they continued their voyage to the new world even though there were questions about the safety of the vessel. They managed to work hard on the ship and make it to the new world, tired and hungry, only to learn that there was no rest to be found, but even more work.
The earliest immigrants who settled in North America were the Puritans in 1621. Unlike their predecessors in the late sixteenth, who ventured to America for the sole purpose of seeking gold and glory; the Puritans sought refuge in a vast new land, and freedom to practice their beliefs without fear of recourse from governing authority. In compact with the monarchy, the Church of England, and Anglican officials routinely oppressed and harassed the Separatists. William Bradford in his history, Of Plymouth Plantation, wrote of the Puritans, " But after these things they could not longer continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted and persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these which now came upon them. For some were taken and clapped up in prison, others had their houses beset and watched night and day, and hardly escaped their hands; and the most were fain to flee and leave their houses and habitations, and the means of their livelihood " (Bradford 9).
...ty men and women had been accused of being witches. Of those, nineteen of them plead innocent and were hung. One man refused to acknowledge the accusation and refused to enter a plea. He was legally crushed to death. Of the ones who plead guilty and were sent to jail, many contracted illnesses and later died. The outbreak of hysteria caused many to suffer and die, families to break apart, and a society to succumb to the whims of children. In the Puritans quest to create a perfect society based on pure beliefs only created a society ripped apart by tension, anxiety and fear.
The more visible difference between the two colonies lies in their views of religion and their practices of Christianity. Pilgrims and Puritans were Protestants who differed in degree. While both followed the teaching of John Calvin, a cardinal difference distinguished one group from the other: Pilgrims were Puritans who had abandoned local parishes and formed small congregations of their own because the Church of England was not holy enough to meet their standards. They were labeled
Brands, H. W.. American Stories: A History of the United States. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson Education, 2012. Print.
There were a myriad of differences between Great Britain and her American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but these differences can be divided into three basic categories: economic, social, and political. The original American settlers came to the colonies for varied reasons, but a common trait among these settlers was that they still considered themselves British subjects. However, as time passed, the colonists grew disenfranchised from England. Separated from the king by three thousand miles and living in a primitive environment where obtaining simple necessities was a struggle, pragmatism became the common thread throughout all daily life in the colonies. It was this pragmatism that led the colonists to create their own society with a unique culture and system of economics and politics.