The Tempest

The main idea in this writing is to show the ways in which Pilgrims and other Europeans cam to America and basically took over the Indians which were already living here. Also the way in which Pilgrims looked down at Indians as if they were different, stupid, and lazy. Before anyone found America, the Indians had been living here for a long time. So they had a way of life that was different than any other nationality. They didn't have any technologies or other innovations such as guns and ammo or brick houses. The ways they went about getting their food was a little different than the Pilgrims. So when the Pilgrims came and lived the life style of an Indian they were not experienced enough to survive.Alot of Europeans immigrated to America to start a new life. There was one problem when they came though. The pilgrims were used to getting food from going and buying it or hunting with guns. Where the Indians used bow and arrows, chizzled rocks, and various ways of farming for their source of food. Farming especially corn was the main source of their food. When the Pilgrims saw the way that Indians didn't do much to grow the corn, they started to call them lazy. As the Pilgrims called them lazy almost all of the immigrants that came to America in the "great immigration" died due to starvation or froze to death. So the authors argument is that the Pilgrims instead of making fun of the Indians way of life and tried to get rid of them. they should have been learning how survive in this different world.My first discussion question is, why are people so stuck on their way of living and why can't they adopt to new ways of life easier? I know growing up in a five member family if I were to travel to Spain and live with a ten person family it would be extremely hard for me to cope with their way of life. I think our school systems at a young age need to teach us more about way of life in foreign countries. At some point in your life you will have to cope with something new and how you handle that situation is how much character you have. The second question is, if the Pilgrims saw their own people dying and saw the Indians now dying why were they so stuck up that they couldn't learn their way of life to survive. The human nature tells us that we are the best and everyone else "the other" who have different ways of living are below us and therefore we should not lower ourselves to that level. This is untrue and I think that we as humans need to fight off that perception and think about whether or not we can learn things from different people. Now that I am in college I have realized that you can gain information from different races and different ages. That's one of the skills I have gained through my college experience so far, and if we can all learn to think in that mind set we will have a better place to live.I felt that reading was good and informative. I remember learning this information in school but I forgot how hard it was for Pilgrims to pick up a new way of life. I also defiantly have a different way of looking at it now as opposed to when i read it in fifth grade.