In 1607 the English come to Virginia, in North America. They want to begin a new life, and to make their home in the New World. They build a town and call it Jamestown, after King James of England. Virginia is a new world for the English, but it is not new for the Indian people of North America. They live there; their fathers and their grandfathers lived there before them. It is their country, their home. And they do not like these white men from across the sea.
One of the Englishmen, John Smith, goes up the river in a boat, but the Indians find him and take him to the great King, Powhatan. The Indians want to kill him, but Powhatan has a daughter – the beautiful Pocahontas. She looks into John’s blue, blue eyes… and so begins a famous story of two countries, two people, and a love without end.
Pocahontas was a daughter of the great King of Indians, and he didn’t like the Englishmen from overseas. They were good friends with each other at first. The King of Indians tried to observe these Englishmen and gave one of the Englishmen, John Smith to his daughter to check them all the time. However, as Pocahontas was a little girl, she was interested in English culture and John. She fell in love with him. One day, Powhatan tried to take some guns from Jamestown and John got angry because he thought that people should be friends without weapons. He tried to explain what he thought to Pocahontas, and she understood. Other day, she went to the town and noticed the difference. There was not John Smith. She asked about John to other Englishmen, and she knew that John had a bad accident and left the Virginia to England. Pocahontas was really disappointed and cried long time in the forest. Some years later, Pocahontas was a young woman. The English people needed their guns that her father took from them. They tried to kidnap the young Indian woman and negotiated with the tribe, but they didn’t accept their opinion. Pocahontas understood her father and she didn’t want to back to her home. She married Englishman, of course not John Smith, and had a baby. After some years in Jamestown, she went to England with her husband and son. There were so many things in England, and English people were interested in Indian woman and wanted to make friend with her. The King of James and his wife met Pocahontas. She heard about John Smith from the Queen and she hesitated very much. Two days later, John came to see her, but she could not see him because of her terrible memories. She loved him in her heart, but she already had a husband and a child. During in her stay in London, Pocahontas got ill and she was dead in England.
She was famous because of her marriage and being good friend to the English when they first went to Virginia.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
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