Pilgrim Life

Long before what we now call America there was nothing but unequipped pilgrims coming from Europe, and Native Americans. They faced many challenges including harsh climates, diseases that attacked their incognizant immune systems, and Natives who were ready to fight for what was rightfully theirs. Among these colonies two stand out, and while they share a few similarities both are profusely different; Jamestown and Plymouth.

It all started when a crew of one-hundred two people abandoned their homeland in search for freedom. After a long and hazardous journey, the pilgrims finally made it to land. Before landing the heads of the pilgrim families and heads of the non-pilgrim families made a compact to secure the peace between both of them. Today, the compact is known as “The Mayflower Compact”. They took their first step on an unknown vast land hoping to build a greater future, a future with freedom as virtue. Not everything went as the pilgrims thought it would go, more than half the settlers died from a contagious disease that almost swept the new colony. They were unfamiliar with the agriculture, so they could not harvest healthy vegetation. Their food supply was running low. Now, all they had was hope, hope to survive to live a free life and spread the gospel of kingdom of Christ. To survive, they had to make peace treaty

Faithful is just a guy who, like Christian, escapes his past life and pursues a life that is down the straight and narrow path of Christianity. A Righteous man, ridiculed, tortured, and finally burnt at the stake for his faith, Faithful lives up to his name and is the martyr of The Pilgrim's Progress—the one who suffers and dies for what he believes in. Before Christian meets Faithful on the road from the Palace Beautiful, Christian seems to be the only real pilgrim on the journey to the Celestial City. The others pilgrims he has met on his journey (Formalist and Hypocrisy, Mr. Worldly-Wiseman, Mr. Pliable) have either abandoned the journey for its extreme struggles or for being shown the hollowness of their faith. But Faithful is different unlike his friends he did not have a hollow faith so when he faced the trials and tribulations he did not deal with them because of his strong faith in the Lord.

The novel Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick has a long list of things to teach us about the New World. The fact that it’s showed us that the very first pilgrims had no idea what they were in for was crucial. They were hit with the realization that the Natives would be wild and ferocious instead of calm and tame. They’d known they would be introduced to new ways of life, and disease, but they didn’t suspect that it’d be the most destructive part to the goodwill of the newly born colony.

The path of the modern pilgrim can be as self-realizing as those who follow the path of saints. Matt says he has come to know himself intimately by walking in the shoes of over 8.4 million New Yorkers. Dalya has found peace and freedom that lies within her, irrespective of worldly comforts. Indeed, the message of these pilgrims is that life itself can be a pilgrimage—if we just surrender to it.

The Pilgrims voyaged to America around 1602 and they were off to a bad start when it came to colonize the new land. A while after the Pilgrims had landed in America, they decided to make William Bradford the governor of their new government, which he continued on out for the rest of his life. Throughout the time that the Pilgrims were in America, they suffered many deaths that were not expected to occur. Many important people to the government had died due to lack of supplies. The Pilgrims did not have the medicine or the food to provide each other when they came down with sickness and

However, anything was better than staying there. When we got to America, the Virginia Company gave us grants. “The pilgrims were able to get grants of land from the Virginia Company”(Discovering Our Past a History of the United States 65). We could practice our religion freely without being mistreated. Now we can start our new

Since the early 1600s when the pilgrims came to the United States, there was mistreatment of the natives as they were non- white and they seen as savages by the Englishmen because the natives did not believe in God as stated in chapter one of A People’s History of the United States.

There are many reasons why an immigrant decided to leave his or her home. One could be the lack of work or low paying jobs. In a life where most people want to prosper having a lack of work or money to move forward makes it really hard to progress in life. Another could be, that they’re in look for a better future for their children and want to provide the best for them, if they see that a land can offer better this also can be a reason to risk it all. Their government may be run in a way that they don’t like, killings feeling in danger all give a migrant a reason to want to leave so they go to new lands to try to find a better future.

How did the pilgrims get to America from England? First, the pilgrims however escaped from

William Bradford created a detailed picture in our minds of the hardships the Pilgrims endured, especially during their adventures on the Mayflower and Speedwell to find new land in hopes of escaping England’s control. Between furious seas, disease stricken passengers, and a cracked beam on the Mayflower, the hope Pilgrims’ once had, was almost lost. Only the writings of William Bradford could allow us to see what grueling torment our ancestors had to overcome. Some of the many hardships that the sailors and passengers endured included furious storms, terrible seasickness, abuse from the sailors and crew, dehydration and overall misery. The lack of drinking water in combination with seasickness and no sanitation quickly grasped the bodies on board.

The Pilgrims were a group of people who traveled from England. During their trip, they encountered many adversities and misfortunes. Thankfully, they landed safely. The first few days were tough for them. Imagine going to an unfamiliar place knowing that once you leave your homeland there will be nothing on the other side. These people felt that and were very scared. The Pilgrims suffered a lot in the first months. People were sick and helpless. The people were dying. Their only solution was to seek help.

Immigrating to America, no matter where you are coming from, has its fair share of trials and tribulations. Immigrants have to go through weeks of traveling to finally get to America and then completely rebuild their lives in this new country. While most immigrants went through similar experiences when migrating to America, , such as, traveling by sea, fighting illness, and enduring medical checkups upon arrival in Ellis Island, their ultimate reasons for leaving their home country varied, by economics, politics, or warfare.

The new world was a place of plenty. A place to start anew, of opportunities, a place to dream for a better feature; a life that could never possibly be attained. But also a place that gives suffering to those that were never meant to be there: abducted, sold, and/or enslaved by the hands of their own kind. A nightmare one could only wish to awaken from. For most people, coming to Colonial America was either for religious freedom, economic gain, or enslavement.

As the pilgrims spent their first winter in America, they suffered a great deal of illness from the freezing conditions. The historical significance of this harsh weather comes from the attitude the Separatists had, persevering when times were hard. This positive attitude left a great mark on this nation, creating a sense of hope for years to come. They kept faith, believing that God was on their side and they were later