Bradford account describes how the Pilgrims adapted to life in New England. Explore that experience. In the character of one of the pilgrims who survived the first year in New England, write a letter to someone back in England describing your current situation and how it has improved. Base your writing on details from the text to create a coherent narrative. As much as possible, mirror Bradford’s seventeenth-century style. Use precise words and phrases and include sensory details to describe the character’s experience.

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.