The excerpt from "Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia," section 2.2, by William Simmonds, demonstrated the down-side of Virginia, an early colony. While in section 2.5, an excerpt from "The Narragansett Act of Submission to Charles I," showed the fear and discomfort the Indians had towards their enemies. This excerpt was somewhat the same, but also different to section 2.2. The first reading, 2.2, was quite challenging and irritating. This part of the excerpt was obvious due to the grammar in this section, which was expressed and written different than today's English. Old English and today’s English are very different. This letter was poorly written due to the run-on sentences that rarely had any periods, but did indeed have a mass number of commas. In section 2.2 the spelling was off by a bit. For example the spelling "dailie" meant daily and the spelling "fewe" meant few. Instead of section 2.5 being written in the same way, it was written in an educated manner. The spelling improved in about 30 years from when the other letter was written. The spelling errors and run-on sentences made the excerpt difficult to understand. The difficulty made section 2.5 understandable and section 2.2, not so much. Although the first section was not as easy to understand, it was the one that made most sense. This excerpt was a letter that the colonists used to notify the King about Jamestown. In the letter the colonists informed the King that Virginia was completely different to the Indies. The landscape of Virginia was rough and snowy which made it unsuitable for planting fruits and crops. The colonists weren’t used to this because the Indies were warm and humid allowing the plantation of fruits and crops effortless. Due to this problem, the colonists wanted to enslave the Natives of Virginia. The Natives would refuse and preferred to die than become slaves. This made the colonists angry, but they couldn’t do anything about it. They couldn’t kill them because the Natives were the only ones who knew how to keep the resources coming. Despite that they couldn’t enslave the Natives, the colonists were angry that the Nativities didn’t have an established colony, so they had to start from scratch and make one. They basically only established a colony to gain money. The Native Americans infuriated the early colonists because the Spaniards and Portuguese felt like the Natives from Jamestown didn’t value the items they had in Virginia. The Natives only cared about feeding their people. The second excerpt expressed the vulnerability of the Narraganset’s because they asked King Charles I to protect them from their enemies.
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The Indians asked for the king’s protection in exchanged of their trust. They basically became servants to the King, because they knew that there was no other way to avoid their enemies. But when they sent this letter, one of the other tribes killed the Narragansett’s chief. The chiefs of the other tribe had to appear in court, but didn’t because he had stated that they had important things to do. If the tribes were to have a problem, they would sort them out as a group. Even though these to excerpts are completely different, there are a few similarities. One big idea of both sections is that they are both
The Indians asked for the king’s protection in exchanged of their trust. They basically became servants to the King, because they knew that there was no other way to avoid their enemies. But when they sent this letter, one of the other tribes killed the Narragansett’s chief. The chiefs of the other tribe had to appear in court, but didn’t because he had stated that they had important things to do. If the tribes were to have a problem, they would sort them out as a group. Even though these to excerpts are completely different, there are a few similarities. One big idea of both sections is that they are both