Jamestown - John Smith and Pocahontas - YouTube. History Essay (Essay Sample)

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The relationship between Pocahontas and John Smith was one of the family if the oral histories are to be believed. Disney and Pocahontas's story portrays John Smith as a man who begins to fall in love with an Indian princess who saved his life. He would have been somewhat akin to an uncle as the ceremony to make him chief of a village would have made their interactions a bit closer. It is doubtful that the two shared any love for one another, as Pocahontas was scarcely 11 when they first met (Kupperman). There is little, if any, historical facts in Disney's movie. While John Smith and Pocahontas did meet, there was no love shared between them. She saw him as an uncle due to the ceremony in which he was accepted into the tribe. In the movie, it also shows Pocahontas being much older than she was throughout the time of her actual life. It did not show her being kidnapped, or her "conversion" to Christianity. The second movie did show her travelling to England. However, all events in the movie seem to be almost wholly falsified. The movie representation only coincided with her life so far as a few of the characters within it. She strayed slowly from any facts in her life.