Trevor Olson
English III
Ms. Fordahl
4/09/2014
Utopian Promise
The
time period for the Utopian era is around the 1600’s. The world is being formed
by settlers all over the world. The white people settled in America in around
the 1600’s after Lewis and Clark founded the Americas. The New World is where
the white settlers came and settled to make homeland in the Americas. They had
to become friends with the natives that already lived there. In the video
Utopian Promise, they described what it was like for the settlers and the
difference between Quakers and Puritans. The difference between the Quakers and
Puritans are their religion and that the Quakers are about peace and the
Puritans didn’t tolerate anything.
In the
story “The General History of Virginia” it talks about how John Smith, a white
European settler came to the Americas to settle and live on the land. When
Smith arrived at the Americas there were already Native Americans that lived
there. The Native Americans didn’t approve of the white people settling in the
Americas. They decided on a compromise which made the Native American teach
them to hunt and the white people teach them to plant corn and stuff.
In the
story “Of Plymouth Plantation” it talks about how again the white settlers come
to settle in the Americas, and the Natives do not want them there. It talks
about the Wampanoag Native Americans and how they live. The story also talks
about how the settlers came in during the winter, and how bad of a time it was
to come. A lot of the men starved to death because they couldn’t find or get
food.
In the
story “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” it talks about how much humans are
scared to be condemned to hell. The story also talks about how there was a
preacher that just said everyone was going to hell. It also said that God held
you in the palm of his hand and that at any moment he could let them go into
hell.
If
anyone had different beliefs just like the Salem Witch Trial you would be
treated the same in the 1600’s. That is how the trials created the history and
setting for the older times. I don’t know much about the Salem witch trials but
I know that if you had a different belief then you were considered to be evil
and killed. McCarthyism is the
practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without
proper regard for evidence. I think that the story “The Crucible” is going to
be good because you get to see how people were treated cruelly in the early
ages. I thought that the stories we read and the video we watched were not too
bad, they could have been better.
