Essay On The Movie Pocahontas

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Disney produced a movie called Pocahontas in the year 1995. The movie is about a Native American girl, named Pocahontas. Through Pocahontas spirit, she senses that great change is bound to happen in her village. As predicted a ship lands, and within the ship are Englishmen in search of gold. While roaming the land, Pocahontas encounters the captain of the ship, John Smith. Curiosity got the best of them and soon enough they fall in love with each other. While they spend time together, they learn and discover many new things about each other that both did not know. While love grows between Pocahontas and john smith, rage as well as anger grows between the Englishmen and the Native Americans. Emotions rise, and tension come to a breaking point, …show more content…

In an article called The Pocahontas Myth, written by Chief Roy Crazy Horse, he states that Pocahontas real name was Matoaka and that “Pocahontas” was given to her as a nickname meaning “spoiled child". In the movie, Disney portrays Pocahontas to be a young woman around the age of twenty but it is revealed that by the time John snow had gotten to the village, Pocahontas was only 10 years of age and John was twenty-eight. Pocahontas died on March 21, 1617 at the age of twenty-one, around the same age she was illustrated in the movie (Horse). With all the dissimilarities pictured, it is hard to imagine how difficult her prior life would had have …show more content…

Although the movie did not use many accurate facts, it was able to let the children know who Pocahontas was and where she came from. The movie was able to portray how the Native Americans lifestyle would look like, as well as what food they ate. The viewer’s got a glimpse at what if would have been many of years ago, but the film didn’t quite capture the whole image of that American History really looks like. The film just showed what Hollywood does to make the movie more appealing to all viewers, and in this movie, Disney changed cruelty and violence for peace and

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