The Savages

I personally don’t know if to call him a reliable or unreliable author, the way he describes and in details explains how they were becoming ill and starving to deathseemed real there been 50 deaths due to heavy toil and summer heat. John took over and went on that expedition where then they got attacked by all these “savages”. Onething that sounds hard to believe “finding he was beset with 200 savages, two of them he slew, still defending himself with the aid of a savage his guide” (Smith,1624,p.48) which seem like too many for one man. The way he describes him been attacked by all these savages makes it doubtful because at one point he says the all werethrowing arrows at him and he used a man as an armor but out of all those people he didn’t get killed seems hard to believe. The Indians after seen his compass changed theirthoughts but still took him. I don’t understand why he writes in a third person’s point of view, but my opinion is maybe to describe his own feelings as a third personsince he was posted as a hero for bringing gifts to the Indians and been so brave also the Indians became friendly and helped them through their sickness, so thatSmith wasn’t killed because of the Levitical law. There are many contradicting actions in his narration maybe not everything happened like he said but some of it did and ifhe made it alive and made Indians and the people of Jamestown friendly with each other, then some must be true. w/c=270
Reference
Smith, J. (1624). The GeneralHistory of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. In N. Bayum (Ed.), The Norton anthology of American literature (shorter 7th ed. pp. 45-57). New York: Norton.