Unit Two ; Number Three

Sometimes when your telling a story and you stretch the truth it takes away the reliability of the story. This is why I agree that biased writings do take away from the meaning because once you stretch the truth how is everything else supposed to be relied on to be the truth . Some of the things that are stretched out or seemed just to make the story better or make something look better than it is.

In the Journal of John Smith there were many times where he put more of subjective perspectives than objective. There were a lot of Times when he made things More then what they really should have been. '' ''Each hour expecting the fury of the savages; when God, the patron of all good endeavors, in that desperate extremity so changed the hearts of the savages that they brought such plenty  of their fruits and provision as no man wanted'' . This is an example of where John exaggerates the truth.

Number Two ; Unit Two

Christopher Columbus ; From the Journal of the First Voyage to America




1. ''  I saw a snake, wich we killed , and i have kept the skin for your Highness.
       - Objective
 He states facts on what he saw thats why this one is objective


2. '' In meeting with the king , in oder to see if i can acquire any of the gold, wich i hear he possesses.''
      - Subjective
 He puts more of his opinion instead of facts thats why its subjective

Jhon Smith ; What Happened to the first supply

1. '' scarce ten amongst us could either go or well stand'' .
     This sentence is objective because he's stating facts of what was going on.

 2.  ''Each hour expecting the fury of the savages; when God, the patron of all good endeavors, in that desperate extremity so changed the hearts of the savages that they brought such plenty  of their fruits and provision as no man wanted''
 - This is subjective because he uses more of opinion and his feelings than Facts.

Number One; Unit Two

I believe this unit will be about being able to find when someones being objective and subjective in  a biography or a fiction document , and knowing the primary adavantages and disadvantages of being a secondary source and being a primary source.

Closure For Unit One

In American Literature we still use mythic, traditional and classical influences by telling stories that are remembered form childhood. One of the myths that was read was Creation tales that could be compared to the Adam & Eve.  We used Old Myths to trace the history of American Fiction by reading Oral Myths of different tribes and writing about them.

# 5

5.
I Choose to read one one of the Cherokee myths . This explained the beginning of life and how everything became what it is today.   According to the myth in the beginning of time earth was a dark island that hung from the sky , there were only animals and plants.  The animals couldn’t see since it was always dark so they got the sun and put it in a path so it could move east and west of the island.  Then One day the great spirit came and told the plants and animals to stay awake for seven nights and seven days some of the animals could not and they slept. So the great spirit awarded the ones that did not sleep and made them green all year and the ones that did sleep lost their colors and leaves during the winter. The animals that did not sleep was giving the award with the ability to go about in the dark. It seemed that  plants were important in this Myth . ''Those plants that did stay awake, such as the pine and cedar and those few others were rewarded by being allowed to remain green all year''.  I didn't really find any similarities with the Myths that we already read except that most of them are about the begining of the world and many times animals are the first ones on earth.

# 4

. This Myth was about the creation of the world. Things that seemed important in this story was the birds &' animals, they were the ones who where trying to pull up the earth from deep in the ocean .  "I will bring up Earth or die trying." They all looked to see who it was. It was little Muskrat . The smallest of all the animals was the bravest ones the little muskrat was determined to pull up  earth .

Unit One ; Number two

2. The example I Chose was the story of the creation of the world. In this Myth they tell a storey of another world that dis behaved so the great creator destoryed the world and the only suvivor was a crow, who begged the creator for another world.  Finally the Great Creator Felt it was time for a new world so he began to creating the world. He placed the animals and people all around , He cried Tears on the land to make the ocean , lakes , and streams. He gave the people his bag of many creations and told them to live the way they were supposed or he will too destory that world.

Unit One # 1

#1 . I believe this unit will be about the history of American Fiction and the way we still interpret myths, Traditional and classical literature into American literature.  Using the purpose of the Oral story can tell what was important to each tribe.  We use many Oral traditions one that I know well of is the story of Adam &’ Eve.  

# 5.