Mayflower Question

8. The book lets you relate to the characters somewhat and helps you think of these historical figures as actual people with real emotions and lives and stuff. Movies a lot of times portray indians as stupid and uncivilized because they lived in tents and didn't wear pants and shirts, or exaggeratingly spiritual, wise, nature-y people. This book shows how smart they really were, and that people are pretty much the same in that they can all be power-hungry and sneaky to get what they want. Squanto is a good example, from all of the planning and deceiving he did, it really humanizes him. The only cliche indian characteristic I can think of as pretty realistic is their use and connection of nature.