Characteristics of Exploration Literature

Characteristics of Exploration Literature Explorers were first & fore close navigators, not writers. Explorers had a limited audience in mind they were reporting back to the main land The American Dream is obvious Indians are always considered inferior Reports were not always accurate Verazzano Verazzanos Voyage North Carolina up to Canada Wrote to the King of France who funded the voyage N. C. cedar trees The complexion of these people is shameful, not much different from that of the Ethiopians their hair is black and thick, and not in truth long, it is worn tied back upon the head in the form of a microscopical tail. Our sailors in the boat empathizeing a great fire made up, and their companion placed very near it, profuse of fear, as is usual in all(prenominal) cases of novelty, imagined that the natives were ab appear to roast him for food. By meddlesome around we discovered in the grass a very cold woman and a unfledged girl of about eighteen or cardinal, wh o had concealed themselves for the same reason the old woman carried both infants on her shoulders, and behind her neck a little boy eight years of age when we came up to them they began to shriek and make signs to the hands who had fed to the woods. We found them fairer than the others American Dream Resources that the land has & space. Cham kick Voyages of Samuel de Champlain The Voyages of 1604-1607 Est. Quebec compares in his composition We saw eighteen or twenty savages, who came to the shore and began to dance. We did not wish them harm, although it was in our power to avenge ourselves. As for weapons, they beat only pikes, clubs, bows and arrows.It would gather upm from their appearance that they have a good disposition, better than those of the north, besides they are all in face of no great worth. Even a slight communication with them gives you at once a cutledge of them. They are great thieves and, if they cannot lay hold of any intimacy with their hands , they try to do so with their feet, as we have oftentimes learned by experience. I am of opinion of that, if they had any thing to exchange with us, they would not give themselves to thieving. It is prerequisite to be on champions guard against this people, and live in a start of distrust of them, yet without letting them comprehend it. Single-Minded, descriptive of the natives John Smith The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles Started traveling at 16 yrs old Captured in Turkey and sold as a slave thinks much of himself, he fagged most of the voyage in chains in the boat on the way to Jamestown. 7 out of 105 He was a leader 35 were gentlemen, Smith was a leader, 38 stayed alive. Wrote in tertiary someone adventure New England (he designd it) Smith little dreaming of that accident, being got to the marshes at the rivers head, twenty miles in the desert, had his two men slain (as is supposed) sleeping by the canoe, while himself by fowling soug ht them sustenance who finding he was beset with 200 salvages, two of them he slew, still defending himself with the aid of a salvage his guide, whom he bound to his arm with his garters, and used him as a buckler.Yet he was shot in his thigh a little, and had legion(predicate) arrows that stuck in his clothes but no great hurt, till at last they took him prisoner. From Penobscot to Sagadahoc. This coast is mountainous, and isles of huge rocks, but overgrown for the most part, with most sorts of excellent good woods, for make houses, boats, barks or ships, with an incredible abundance of most sorts of fish, much fowl, and sundry sorts of good fruits for mans use. And surely by reason of those sandy cliffs, and cliffs of rocks, both which we saw so planted with gardens and corn fields, and so s salutary up inhabited with a goodly, strong, and well proportioned people, besides the greatness of the timber growing on them, the greatness of the fish, and the muffle temper of the air (for of five and forty not a man was sick, but two that were many another(prenominal) years diseased before they went, not withstanding our bad lodging and accidental diet) who can but love this a most excellent place, both for health and fertility.And of all the four parts of the world I have yet chew the fatn not inhabited, could I have but means to transport a colony, I would rather live here than anywhere and if it did not maintain itself, were we but once indifferently well fitted, let us starve. So freely hath God and his Majesty bestowed those lessings on them that give attempt to nurse them, as here every man whitethorn be master of his own labor and land, or the greatest part (if his Majestys royal meaning be not abused) and if he have nothing but his hands, he may set up his trade and by industry quick grown rich, spending but half that time well which in England we abuse in idleness, worse, or as ill .. here man, woman and child, with a small hook and line, by angling many take divers sorts of excellence fish at their pleasures and it is not pretty sport to pull up two pence, six pence, and twelve pence as fast as you can haul and veer a line he is a very bad fisher that cannot kill in one daylight with his hook and line one, two, or three hundred cods, if they be sold there for ten shillings a hundred, though in England they go out give to a greater extent than twenty, may not both servant, master and merchandiser be well content with this gain?If a man work but three age in seven, he may get more than he can spend unless he will be exceedingly excessive. Thus though all men be not fishers, yet all men whatsoever may in other matters do as well, for necessary doth in these cases so rule a commonwealth, and to each one in their several functions, as their labors in their qualities may be as profitable because there is a necessary mutual use of all. My purpose is not persuade children from their parents, men from their wives, n ot servants from their masters, only such as with free constant may be spared but that each parish, or village, in city, or country, that will but apparel their fatherless children of thirteen or xiv years of age, or young married people that have small wealth to live on, here by their labor may live exceeding well. Pg 48 How we owe our God Reasons for settling Jamestown o Gold o God o Glory American Dream Middle-Class Utopia William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation, Book 1 Orphan when very young, very religious (16 yrs old) self-taught 1621 elected Governor, served 33 years total wife venomous overboard and died very humble. Pilgram Israelites following Moses Gods chosen What could now sustain them but the olfactory property of God and His grace? May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were puddle to perish in this natural state but they cried unto to gentle, and He heard their voic e and looked on their adversity, and so forth Obstacles go about by Pilgrams o The ocean (sea sickness) The crew of the trailing arbutus ? There was a proud and very drab young man, one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty he would always be contemning the inadequate people in their sickness and cursing them daily with grievous execrations and did not let to signalize them that he hoped to help to cast hald of them overboard before they came to their journeys end, and to curse and swear most bitterly. But it pleased God before they came half seas over to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself that first that was thrown overboard. o The wilderness (winter upon arrival) ? But here I cannot but stay and make a pause, and stand half amaze at this poor peoples present condition and so I think will the allegeer, too, when he well considers that same. Being this passed that vast ocean , and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembered by that which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weather-beaten bodies no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succour.It is recorded in Scripture as a mercy to the Apostle and his shipwrecked company, that the barbarians, when they met with them (as after will appear) were readier to fill their sides all-inclusive of arrows than otherwise. o Indians (attack on beach savages take tools, etc. ) o Non-Puritans o Self-Doubt ? And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and surmount to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and esolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men-and what multitudes there might be of them they knew not. Mayflower Compact o Plain st yle- Puritan trait Puritanism o Main Class Movement got their name from their enemies Puritans Beliefs o God is omnipotent and good o Individuals are either saved or imprecate birth o The Bible is Gods direct communication to man and should be read daily o No hierarchy should govern the church o Biblical scholars, saw themselves as Gods chosen people o Affliction and Adversity were necessary Puritan Characteristics o Emphasized Education o introspection was a Puritan trait (journals) o Wrote in plain style (American style comes from) o Only Biblical forms of literature- non fiction Anne Bradstreet The Flesh and Spirit o Introspection (Puritan trait) o One Flesh was called, who had her eye on wordly, wealth and vanity The other called Spirit, who did rear her thoughts unto a higher sphere o Dost dream of things beyond the moon, and dost thou hope to dwell there shortly? afterlife she had doubts) o Come, come, Ill show unto thy sense industry hath its recompense. What canst des ire but thou mayst see true substance in variety? Dost honor like? Acquire the same, as some of their undying fame and trophies to thy name erect which wearing time shall neer deject. For riches dost thou long full sore? Behold enough of precious store. Earth hath more silver, pearls, and gold than eyes can see or hands can hold. Affectst thou pleasure?Take thy fill, Earth hath enough of what you will, then(prenominal) let not go, what thou mayst find, for things unknown, only in mind. ( What not have things that you can feel sooner of just hoping? ) o This City pure is not for thee, for things unclean there shall not be. If I of nirvana may have my fill, take thou the world, and all that will. (Reaffirms her faith) To My Dear and Loving Husband o trip out was meant to only have kids A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment o Breaking of Stereotypes bloody shame Rowlandson A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration A captivity narrative is a psychological drama that includes o A Loss of freedom (being caught) o Self- Realization (hardships) o Redemption (gets away from the Indians) o The Lord hereby would make us the more to acknowledge his hand, and to see that our help is always in him. o I then remembered how careless I had been of Gods holy time, how many Sabbaths I had lost and misspent, and how evily I had walked in Gods sight which lay so close unto my Spirit, that it was easier for me to see his presence for ever.Yet the Lord still shewed mercy to me, and upheld me and as he wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other. o Yet I can say, that in all my sorrows and afflictions, God did not leave me to have my fury work towards himself, as if his wayes were unrighteous. But I knew that he laid upon me less that I deserved. o earlier I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it.Also readDrivers Ed Module Reflection JournalWhen I lived in prosperity, having the comforts of the World about me , my relations by me, my Heart chearfull, and taking little care for any thing and yet seeing many, whom I preferable before my self, under many tryals and afflictions, in sickness, weakness, poverty, losses, crosses, and cares of the World, I should be sometime jealous least I should have my portion in this life (jealously) o Affliction I wanted, and affliction I had, full measure (I thought) pressed down and running over yet I see, when God calls a Person to any thing, and through never so many difficulties, yet he is fully able to campaign them through and make them see, and say they have been gainers thereby. And I hope I can say in some measure, As David did, It is good for me that I have been afflicted. Crosscurrents Settlers views of Indians have envolved o gentle Child-like o Friendly (Bradford) o Threat o Enemy Spectral Evidence ( John Winthrop) o The Trial of Margaret Jones Her behavior at her trial was very intemperate, lying notoriously and railing upon the jury a nd witnesses, and in the like distemper she died. The same day and hour she was executed, there was a very tempest at Connecticut, which blew down many trees. o Mary Towne Easty I petition to your Honors not for my own life, for I know I must die and my appointed time is set, but (the Lord knows it is) that if it be possible, no more innocent blood may be shed, which undoubtedly cannot be avoided in the way and course you go in.The Lord above, who is the searcher of all hearts, knows that as I shall answer it at the tribunal induct that I know not the least thing of witchcrafttherefore I cannot, I act not, belie my own Soul. I beg your Honors not to deny this my humble petition from a poor dying innocent person, and I question not but that the Lord will give a blessing to your endeavors. Cotton Mather The Wonders of the Invisible World o Characteristics of Puritanism that supported Salem witch trials Affliction is necessary and good Watchdog mentality (neighbors) No Fiction was allowed (drama) Gods chosen people vs. ogre o Lasting effects of Salem Witch Trails Hastened the Demise of Puritan Dominance Accused is poverty-stricken until proven guilty