ENGLISH AND ITS COLONIAL BACKGROUND

By: Group I

(Class Number 1-8)

OVERVIEW Back then, History and Literature

were often connected. While History mainly tells what a certain nation does, Literature, on the other hand, expresses what a nation thinks and feels. All in all, literature was history’s “Passive Voice”.

Also, History and Literature were one back in the early days in America (thus the term Literary History was coined). People were mainly busy through rigorous activities such as taming the wilderness and building houses, but did not tell what they experienced.

LITERARY HISTORYWhat is Literary History?-It is the Historical Development of

writings (either prose or poetry) that attempts to provide entertainment, enlightenment, or direction/instructions to the reader/hearer/observer. Also, it mostly describes the evolution of literary works.

Though the people back then were busy braving the world, people still had time to write. Their writing back then wasn’t much like the other eras of the English Literature, they often used writing for practical reasons like historical and religious accounts (writings were either annals, journals, reports, and historical records.

SOME CHARACTERS OF COLONIAL LITERATURE

Born: January 1580 Willoughby, Lincolnshire

Died: June 21, 1631 London

Occupations:-English Admiral-Explorer-Soldier-Writer

Captain John Smith

CAPTURED BY OPENCHANCANOUGH John Smith lead a scouting party up the

Chickahominy river in order to discover its source. Along with John Robbinson and Thomas Emry and their indian guides, they ventured upriver. In the middle of their travels they were spotted by several tribal indians. John Smith fought back against them. Eventually, he was captured and sent to their Chieftain Openchancanough.

Though he did cause harm to their tribe, he was welcomed with hospitality. During his stay with them, he was given the privilege to tour several of the tribe’s towns. After a days, he was then sent back to Jamestown in safety.

Born: 1651, Woolwich, Maine

Died: 1695, London

Occupation:-treasure hunter-knight-carpenter-governor of

Massachusetts Sir William Phipps

CAPTAIN PHIPS’S SEARCH FOR THE SUNKEN TREASURE By the year 1638, Phips became the

captain of the Algier Rose, a frigate of eighteen guns and ninety-five men. Tired of his rule, his crewmates attempted mutiny by persuading him to run away with them with the ship and drive a trade with piracy in the seas. A man of loyalty that he is, he took down all his rebelling crew members. This was merely one of the many times mutiny took place.

During one of their trips to a desolate Spanish island, his crew once again planned a mutiny against him by capturing and executing him and leave for dead those who are still faithful to him. Now you may think that this is the end of Phips, but its not. He once again took down all of those rebels! Along with what’s left of the crew, they sailed in search of treasure. Through the help of an old Spaniard, they managed to find the sunken treasure.

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