The pilgrims would make time go by while they are traveling by telling stories to each other’s. To tell two stories was the challenge of the pilgrims. The planned was that the people was to tell two story tales on the way to Canterbury and when they will leave to tell two story tales on the way back. The Host came up with the idea of the people to tell the two stories. A reward would be given to the pilgrim who had the best story. The reward will be giving at dinner. The stories the pilgrims told
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The Pardoner is perhaps one of the most complex characters in The Canterbury Tales because of the tricks and games he plays with the other pilgrims. The tale he tells about the three greedy men is a moral story in order to have his audience‚ the other pilgrims‚ feel guilty about their own sins‚ repent‚ and then‚ in turn‚ give him money. The Pardoner is only concerned with making a profit. He even says this in his prologue that all his sermons are about money being the root of all evil because
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two groups were apprehensive to meet each other. When they first truly met‚ they made agreements with each other. One group of natives‚ the Wampanoags‚ had a strong bond with the settlers. The group effectively saved the pilgrims from starvation and other hostile tribes. The Pilgrims and the Wampanoags had a strong bond and even aided each other against hostile natives. As more puritans migrated to the new world‚ more and more natives were being pushed out from there home land. When Massasoit and his
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to turn back. However the Pilgrim passengers and sailors work together to repair the timber and continue with their voyage. The passengers consisted of a mix of 102 sailors and Pilgrims. The Pilgrims were considered religious fanatics in England and had to relocate to Leiden Holland. In Leiden they develop their plan to create a new pure Pilgrim settlement in the New World. 2. The Pilgrims reach land with tall sand cliffs easily recognizable as Cape Cod. The pilgrims sail south hoping to find somewhere
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cod. When the pilgrims have landed many of them were amazed by how the forest were so easily domesticated with wide paths that‚” the forest could be penetrated even by a large army”. The pilgrims were in fact the not the first to settle here in this indian village‚ other Europeans such as John Smith who was there a few years earlier around 1614‚ which went by the name of Patuxet. Patuxet was home of the Patuxet tribe. Most of the native americans were killed prior to the pilgrims arriving due to
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when people from England fled their country to escape religious persecution. The pilgrims new that they had to cross the ocean because of stories they heard about explorers finding a whole land only occupied by tribes. More than 100 pilgrims traveled the long treacherous journey on the ship named “The Mayflower.” There were many storms‚ and the travel took months‚ but they finally made it to the new world. The pilgrims landed in “Cape Cod” where it was a good place to start their first settlement‚
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the teaching process. The first graders have been learning about Pilgrims. Mrs. Levan wanted her class to create their own Pilgrim. The students painted a circle plate‚ the color of their skin‚ for the head of their Pilgrim. Once the students had their circles painted‚ then they drew a face and their hair. Mrs. Levan explained to the girls to draw their hair short because Pilgrim girls wore their hair up. In order to create the Pilgrim hats‚ Mrs. Levan had me cut different colored construction paper
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entirely true. An interesting guy Larsen was. His ancestors witnessed the first official Thanksgiving and what emphasizes this is that his ancestors originated from both the pilgrims and the Indians. It’s a challenge to know a wide spread of knowledge and having to choose the important information to share. It was 1620 when the Pilgrims had decided to venture for unfound land and cross the Atlantic Ocean. They drifted through the seas and stumbled on the rocky shores of a land that they hadn’t know had
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about the once struggling Pilgrims making a good life for themselves with the help of the Indians. Leaving all civil parts of the world behind the Pilgrims set off. After 66 days aboard the Mayflower they reached Cape Cod on November 11th‚ 1620. The exhausting expedition brought disease and sickness to the travelers. When they arrived they had no houses‚ towns or welcoming faces to greet them. The natives to the land seemed unfriendly and carried weapons. That winter Pilgrims stole corn and beans from
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author of "Of Plymouth Plantation" gives a narrative of the voyage to Cape Cod. In the beginning of chapter 9‚ Bradford starts with a story of a young sailor whom had cursed and slighted the pilgrims for their weakness and constant sickness. However‚ that same sailor died from an unstated disease‚ giving the pilgrims peace as they no longer had persecution from any sailor. Bradford also mentions that young John Howland had fallen into the sea. Howland was under the water for a long time and as he held
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