Captain John Smith was known for his strong guidance as well as his honor. He was attentive of the risk that his connection to the events could affect how he discusses them. Being too personal to the subject material can affect the narrator’s ability to carry a balance in the narrative. One way Smith attempts to refrain this is to remove himself as much as attainable from the narrative, deciding to write in a third-person narration rather than the more familiar first-person narration. The third-person point of view gives Smith's account a greater distinctive quality of authority - as if he is simply an observer to the experience he portrayed. His story involving Pocahontas could be used as an example for Smith to be unreliable. “Historians and ethnographers disagree about whether the incident happened, and if it did, whether Smith correctly understood its meaning in the context of the native culture.” (America Firsthand, 18) He uses embellishment to make this story more
Captain John Smith was known for his strong guidance as well as his honor. He was attentive of the risk that his connection to the events could affect how he discusses them. Being too personal to the subject material can affect the narrator’s ability to carry a balance in the narrative. One way Smith attempts to refrain this is to remove himself as much as attainable from the narrative, deciding to write in a third-person narration rather than the more familiar first-person narration. The third-person point of view gives Smith's account a greater distinctive quality of authority - as if he is simply an observer to the experience he portrayed. His story involving Pocahontas could be used as an example for Smith to be unreliable. “Historians and ethnographers disagree about whether the incident happened, and if it did, whether Smith correctly understood its meaning in the context of the native culture.” (America Firsthand, 18) He uses embellishment to make this story more