The Double Life of Pocahontas Summary - Jean Fritz - Masterplots II: Juvenile & Young Adult Biography Series

At a glance:

Author: Jean Fritz
First Published: 1983
Time of Work: 16071617
Setting: Colonial Virginia and England
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Children's literature
Subjects: Prisoners, Native Americans or American Indians, Seventeenth century, Multiculturalism, Captivity, Biography, Princes or princesses, Negotiation
Locales: Virginia, Europe, United States, England, American colonies, North America, United Kingdom

Form and Content

Jean Fritz begins The Double Life of Pocahontas by describing the happy life of eleven-year-old Pocahontas, who was the favorite daughter of her father, Chief Powhatan. Fritz writes not only about Pocahontas but also about the lack of understanding between the English settlers and the Native Americans. The settlers found the native way of life strange and uncivilized. Also clearly chronicled is the inability of Pocahontas’ people to understand the settlers’ goals: to find gold, to discover a shortcut to the other ocean, to turn the natives into...

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