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John Smith vs William Bradford

many of these corporations. Bradfords piece, on the other hand, described early America as a more wild and savage place where toil, hardship and death were not uncommon. Smith makes many metaphors to the great cities and wealth of England, while Bradford takes many biblical passages and asscocitates them with situations in the colonies, using little or no metaphors. Bradford attempts to make his reader believe that they could live extravagantly on a small fortune earned in Europe. Bradford promotes that only the determined and strong will should come to this new land. A similarity the both paint in the pieces are that of America being a place to escape. Smiths reader escapes from financial and image issues in Europe while Bradfords reader escapes from religious persecution. Overall, the two pieces convey conflicting descriptions of the new world that is caused by Smith hoping to convince settlers to move to the New World and Bradford describes it as a savage place that only the strong will survive. William Bradford and John Smiths two pieces they both convey America as a place to escape the European world but completely fail to contain congruency on what early America was like in this time period....

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