Compare And Contrast William Bradford And John Smith

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Captain John Smith and William Bradford were to influential men who came into the New World in the 1600’s. They were both Europeans who wrote about their experiences in America but to them known as the New World. They both desired to settle the land in this New World. ¨ Being thus left to our fortunes, it fortuned that within ten days, scarce ten amongst us could either go or well stand.¨ ( Smith) ¨..and on the other hand they were loath to hazard their life desperately.¨ (Bradford) Captain John Smith made his journal entry for the purpose of letting the colonist know the New World is better than England so they could join him. John Smith was president of Jamestown. While in Jamestown, he was working on creating a map of Virginia. Captain …show more content…
William Bradford made his journal entry realistic and told his people about what he suffered through in this New World. ¨ So they committed themselves to the will God and resolved to proceed.¨ (Bradford) His audience was for the future generations. Bradford discussed in his journal about the many hardships he faced. He was the leader of the Plymouth colony. Unlike Captain John Smith, he was a giving leader, he did more for his colony than John Smith. John Smith and William Bradford both tried to persuade people to join them in the new world. Both Smith and Bradford had different reasons and both wrote to different audiences. Even though John Smith and William Bradford had their differences their intentions were both the same. Bradford and Smith both wrote descriptions about the hardships they both faced during their travel across the ocean. Some things they described were the sickness and hunger the settlers had to face when they arrived in the New World. ¨ In sundry of these storms the winds were so fierce and the seas so high, as they could not bear a knot of sail, but they were forced to hull for divers days together.¨
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