Why might the description of Virginia written by the Virginia Company (Reading #1) be different from the accounts written by John Smith and Richard Frethorne (Reading #2 and #3) ?

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Maci Davidson

21 December, 05:36

Why might the description of Virginia written by the Virginia Company (Reading #1) be different from the accounts written by John Smith and Richard Frethorne (Reading #2 and #3) ?

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Giada Levine · Answer 1

The author of the pamphlet may had never been to Virginia.

The author of the pamphlet is interested in encouraging colonists to come.

Smith and Frethorne's accounts were written in letters and journals and are more honest about Virginia.

Explanation: Remember that reading 1 was talking good stuff about Virginia, he just imagine that Virginia was the best place to live on.

The reading 2 try to let people that nothing is what the heard and that the people need to see it with their own eyes.

The reading 3 was telling the true he didn't care what other was saying about Virginia