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The New World Reality Vs False Reality
In a sense, the movie, “The new world,” is well related to the article of The True Story of Pocahontas: Historical Myths Versus Sad Reality. Even when there are certain things that are not mentioned in the movie, they can be somehow deduced after reading the article. For instance, the fact that Pocahontas was depressed, and the colonizers allowed a person from the tribe to be with her in order to make her feel less depressed. Consequently, When Pocahontas was kidnapped by Argall, and he supposedly traded her for a copper pot that he gave to chief Japazaw was well explained in the movie as well as in the article. As a matter of point, there were more things that were not correlated than correlated. For example, Pocahontas was a young girl in the movie and a kid in the article, which made them have more differences than not. …show more content…
Moreover, due to her age, the article also explains how she could not save John Smith’s life because she was not allowed to be in some rituals of the tribe; nevertheless, in the movie, Pocahontas threw herself onto John Smith and told her father to let him live. Lastly, a very remarkable fact was the way in which John Smith got food and supplies. As the article explained, “[John Smith] was known to enter villages and put guns to heads of chiefs demanding food and supplies.” However, in the movie, John Smith did not place a gun onto heads of chiefs in order to get food or supplies because the food and supplies were given to him by Pocahontas’s tribe once in a

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