Frances Mossiker's Pocahontas: The Life And The Story

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Even Though Smith provides a truthful perspective of his experiences and explorations, others wish to embellish his story to introduce emotion into early American history. Pocahontas’ age is raised to make the story rich with romance and compatibility between her and Smith. It brings together two different cultures. Frances Mossiker, the author of Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend views the romanticized version of John Smith and Pocahontas as “[t]he tableau vivant at the alter-stone—the death-defying embrace, white man and red woman aswoon with love and terror—seems fixed, frozen in time, indelibly imprinted on the mind’s eye, reminding us that at least once in our history there existed the possibility of interracial accommodation” (337).

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