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William Bradford and the Plain Style of Providence — Homework
Read the assigned excerpt of Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation before answering.
- 1.Define Puritan plain style in one sentence.
- 2.Why did Puritan writers like Bradford value plain style over ornamented prose?
- 3.Explain what it means to read a historical event "providentially," using Bradford's account of the first winter as your example.
- 4.Could the same events Bradford describes be told without a providential framework? What would change?
- 5.In five or more sentences, explain why a colony's own governor might be both an especially valuable and a potentially biased source for its founding history.
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