1610

Voyage+Arrival

 

Crammed - traveled with livestock

Women and children kept below decks

Hardships aboard ships- sailors come from rough backgrounds, uncomfortable dangerous, the sights, the smells, the sounds - fear, fright - people women have been warned about whole life

- On one ship, two women gave birth, the children died

One of the ships that came over had plague - at least 30 out of the 500 tossed overboard en route

July 25, 1609 - brutal storm off coast of Azores "it's like a hell of darkness turned black" - ships scattered - battered, masts torn off - one ship turned back, lost

6 ships carried on to Jamestown - most in bad condition - settlers sick, many Mariners injured, supplies ruined

Ships arrive on James

Triangular fort - almost 500 feet of wall line or palisade line around it

L shaped cellar inside fort - bake ovens in it

- kitchen of 1608

Venetian glass trade bead

Colonists saw August 2009 arrival to be Godsent

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ABLE SEAMAN - an unlicensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship.

Side note: Thomas feels the weight of not only the world on his shoulders, but the weight of God on his shoulders (to fulfill his destiny for England and for God).

Vulturous - First known use - 1623

 

England: bland, cold, dead trees, chopped down

New World: nature is more alive, a place you'd want to live, like going somewhere on vacation to another country and thinking it the most beautiful of land

 

LORD DE LA WARE

- make up friends from Queen's college, Oxford (Robert, Charles)

- Fought in Netherlands; knighted in Ireland

- succeeded his father as Baron De La Warr in 1602

- 1602, became member of Privy Council

- Replaced (John) Captain Smith as governor for life and captain general of the colony of Virginia (Sir Thomas Gates governed as deputy until he arrived)

Side note: mention Insurrection against Queen Elizabeth ("those charges with Essex")

- November 1609 - Powhatan tribe killed John Ratcliffe (Jamestown's Council President) - First Anglo-Powhatan War

- England responds - West recruits 150 men and 3 ships (of his own expense) - sailed for N.W. March 1610, including Sir Samuel Argall

- Arrived In Jamestown June 1610 - told settlers not to give up, who were starving, and not go back to England - sent Argall to Deleware Bay for supplies - had forts built in meantime

Scorch earth tactics - raided villages, burned houses, torched cornfields, and stole provisions - Powhatan's did same tactics

1611 - Returned to England due to a gunshot wound - remained nominal governor

1618 (June) - died at Azores sea - body tossed overboard or buried at Jamestown

Side: make sure Nathaniel says he wants his 50 acres - will share it with his brother, Samuel or John

Name servants Lucy and Martha

- have Sophie go to St. Dunstan's church in West Church in London (where West married Cecilia Shirley in 1602)

- Have Sophie perspicaciously hide her excitement for trip to New World

- Alt. she grows up - grows to love England, friends - annoyed at idea of

- Cecilia had to organize and supervise the servants - she takes care of estate after West leaves

Rich women liked to hunt deer and hares with dogs, played cards

-  did not go to school - educated by tutors, learned music and dancing - learned Greek and Latin, Spanish, Italian and French- more time on music and embroidery

- never kept idle, read books and weaved

Girls could marry at 12, legally - usually I H the rich

- rich women wore cotton and silk, expensive fine wool,

- laws to distinguish classes (by clothes) rich: velvet

Fashionable for women to have pale skin (hats)

- Sophie grows to have lush body and provocative blue eyes

- West's mansion - along "the Strand" joining London to Westminster

- "During the short stay of Lord De Le Warr, 150 or more than half the settlers lost their lives" - Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688

- "A new town was begun at the falls, in the fond belief that two mines were near, and De La Warr took up his residence there" - The Beginners of a Nation

- Families went with West to NW

- West's arrival gave settlement new life and new hope

- West's poor health on voyage

- St. Austell - 30 km south of London, fields trees horses

- Blackened Scabs of Frostbite

- Summer Solstice - Natives know when to pick ripening fruit - "Strawberry Moon"

- About 210 colonists in all - Jamestown 1610

 

Jamestown - Originally a trade post - investors wanted product they could trade with Indians and keep a small, permanent contingent - not colonization

 

Every ship set out for expedition by private investors money - expensive

 

Colonists are resourceful and resilient

 

Jamestown capital of Virginia at first

 

At first, about 100 men and boys.

Half died

 

Colonists made products Indians wanted - bright sheets of copper - made items to Indians specifications - lots of activity

 

The intersection of 3 civilizations - good - each having an active role

Smith - motives, trying to raise money for Virginia company

- English and Indians wanted trading post

- If Powhatan did not want English, they would not be there

- All Powhatan had to do would move or cut off trade and English would be gone

- Powhatan - More experience about Europe vicariously than colonists

- Ships out of Chesapeake bay

Reason Powhatan wanted Brits:

- 105 men and boys - source of trade goods, smelted metal, axes, hoes, knives - increase his power - conduit to the other Indians

Jamestown - trial and error process - martial law

- end of first decade - breakthrough - give everyone a stake in outcome - every comer got their 50 acres

- Some settlers abandoned colony to live in Native communities

- Powhatan - early years - waiting game (England thrive? Help with rival tribes?)

Early as 1610 - Settlers show military strength - attack Paspaheghs  - friendly to Powhatan- they kill children and keep women

- haughty female chief put to sword

1610-1619 - Tobacco - cash crop - more British, establishes their survival in Jamestown - Natives in debt from 1617-1619 from reliance on manufactured goods

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Historically (one source; vacadsci), West had the first noted case of Scurvy in Jamestown (why he left). But in my story, West had the records falsified. He was embarrassed from being shot by the native he vowed (in front of all his men) to kill.

 

Possibly keep: Despite this, Sophie began to fall asleep, with her last view being the Native still presumably meditating, and the night sky being luminant, reminding her of a sight she thought she had forgotten: looking out her bedroom window as a child in her comfortable, silk-sheeted bed, wishing to be in a distant land full of adventure. She had gotten her childhood wish. London seemed so far away; too far away. She eventually drifted off into a deep sleep, saving her troubled thoughts for the next day.

 

William Strachey’s ring taken off dead Brit by Native (Strachey lost the ring; another colonist found it and decided to wear it)

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Original (keep sentence?): As she stood up, she felt the hot summer grass stick to her legs like honey to the skin.

 

At beginning, West has already had ships turned back and they’ve already reached Jamestown. Settlers left behind - still at fort (not historical but that’s the point) - settlers left that out of history out of shame (made up)

 

Visitors to London docks - Worried about being shanghaied - SK

 

A farmer's wife cured bacon and salted meat to preserve it. She baked bread and brewed beer. She also made pickles and conserves and preserved vegetables. Many farms kept bees for honey.

 

Pearl gray clouds

 

Irony: West saves the colony at the beginning, but at the end, abandons it.

 

Plot twist: Nathaniel is thought a traitor (he’s really not; to do an epilogue or not to do an epilogue of the 8 years later thing; most likely to do an epilogue).

 

What the reader doesn’t know: The Native gets on the ship “close-eyed” - Nate and Native know of plan; Sophie doesn’t - she needs to believe Nathaniel betrayed her in order for Nathaniel to be in West’s good graces and everyone to trust Nathaniel, so he can lead the Native to the king to kill him (this is their plan, at least) - Why would Nathaniel want to kill his own king? King screwed his father over, mother too?

 

ADD: Make sure Argall stays behind

 

IDEA NIL: Does Nate shoot Native? (Not fatally) So his cover remains in tact? (He's finally a spy now like he wanted). Native and Nate discussed the shooting (part of the plan to kill West and get intel in London from the monarchy regarding the colony and natives); Sophie doesn't know about it, she's heartbroken as Native is carried away to ship as a prisoner (she needed to be convincing).

 

ADDED: Powhatan arrives with army

 

ADDED: Have West tell Native of Sophie bringing down village - Native becomes angry (idea: fights and sets everyone off)

 

ADDED: Sophie was knocked out by father at young age. Went into coma, then came to a few days later. Forgot what happened (West abusing her). West completely changed after that, not wanting to attract the public eye (as he was growing in power, and did not want certain allegations to bring him down; for business and social status). He became nice. But Sophie later remembers all the things West did: how she treated her and her mother, how she put herself in a comma, and that West killed Cecilia. ADD: Cecilia was finding out the truth about the Irish rebellion and West’s plan to overthrow King James.

 

ADDED: West captures P+N - “they were talking about running up trees, or eating them, I don’t know. Savage business. Nathaniel wouldn’t shut up. But yes, I’ve captured your precious, little friends.”

 

ADDED: “You love the savage, don’t you? You are a disgrace. Just like your mother.” - West at meeting before war

 

QUOTE: “Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof, when your own doorstep is unclean.” - Confucius

 

IDEA NIL: Have men really surprised at everyone’s return. “Where the hell have you been, Argall? Sophie, good to see you, my dear. Still beautiful as ever (“thanks,” creeped out). Native, I’m going to kill ya!”

 

IDEA NIL: N+S escape scouts, reunion with P+N, then are surrounded by all of Argall’s men.

 

ADDED: What was John Smith like? Lots of people feared him, especially my father. I always suspected him to be a liar. Oh, what made you think that? It seemed to exaggerate things. Hmm. Interesting.

 

ADDED: Nathaniel telling Pocahontas how he was so excited to come to the New World. His father couldn’t come because he was not considered worthy; his status (even though he had plenty of experience with smaller shipping vessels)

 

ADDED: “I never asked how you got so good at English.” “I lived among your people for some years.” “Yes, two or three at the most? We got here 1607. That’s not enough time to learn a language.” “It was enough time for me.” “Yeah right, there’s something you’re not telling me.” “Fine, about twenty years ago, there was an old man, who some warriors found. He lived with us, and taught some of us the language, customs, and beliefs. He died after about ten years. I was 15 when he died.” “Who was this man?” “Billy-bob’s father, I suspect.” “What? Why didn’t you tell him?” “Because it would have only brought him grief. He died of an unknown sickness. And his death was not short, but long. He suffered.” “I’m sure your people did everything they could.” “We did.” “What is it?” “We captured him because we feared him. We had never seen a white man before. There were stories passed on, along the road, of a white man who came to kill. A white man from beyond the sea. We saw him as a threat the whole time, not a friend. We took him away from his only son. It was a mistake.”

 

ADDED: colonists should be sick of chasing West’s daughter and one Native. They came here to get rich, opportunity, start new life, not risk their lives to save one and get vengeance.

 

ADDED: Since Native couldn’t have lived with British 5-6 years (British weren’t here that long in 1610) maybe a Brit came over before Newport. Serves as language and customs teacher to Powhatan. Pocahontas and Native are tasked with learning from British man (Billy-bob’s father)

 

ADDED: Argall and his minor unit of men capture Sophie and Native, holding them for West (he’s riding back to them on a horse from killing Billy-bob and Mary-Anne. Argall holds Sophie and Native captive, but soon releases them. They head to Jamestown (with rest of men?; for escorts), while Argall awaits his fate from West, also stalling. Before Argall releases duo: Find my wife and children in Essex [research]. Tell them I love them, and if you can, take care of them for me.” But Sophie insists he go with them back to the fort.

 

ADD: “When I was a child, there were a lot of wild animals (herbivorous) that fed on the corn in the cornfields in the summer. My mother always sent me and a few other boys to hunt these animals. She knew the importance of the hunt.” - Have Native say, smiling and reminiscing

 

POCO AND NATO (OMIT):

“Henry?” Nathaniel said as Henry’s body was floating down the river. “What is it?” Pocahontas said, running over. “One of my friends, Henry. He’s right there, in the water. He’s dead.” Nathaniel pointed to him, astonished. “Your people must be close. Come, we have to find my brother and Sophie.” Nathaniel was stuck in a trance, but was quickly broken out of it by Pocahontas’ hard tugging on his arm. “Common, Nathaniel! We must hurry!” Pocahontas pulled Nathaniel away from the sight, and the two kept running south.

 

ADD: Pocahontas hugs the Native. Nate hugs Sophie. Nice clothes.

 

ADD: “They’ve caught up with us. How’d they do that?” “We took too much time.” - The Native

 

ADDED: Nathaniel runs into Pocohontas (she tells him of Sophie’s safety, that the duo are headed to Jamestown); Nate tells Poco about Kocuum being traitor - They both head east and wait for the opportune time to commandeer one of the ships to go to London (Poco goes? Added reason why Native goes on the ship; he goes mainly to bring down all leaders who want to take over Virginia)

 

ADD: Robert Devereaux is ordered by West to go North-east to find Powhatan’s - be spy for West

 

ADDED: Farewell to Billy-Bob and Mary-Anne: If I ever had a son, well I hope he would’ve been like-“ “Aww” Sophie interrupted. The two men looked at Sophie. “Sorry.” She said. “Ya know.” Billy-bob said. “I know.” The Native said, hugging and thanking him. Mary-Anne: “The Lord has saved you. Remember him when you choose.” “I will, thank you, Mary-Anne.” The two hug. “Choose what?” The Native thought. - Choosing to side with the British or the natives (She chooses the natives).

 

ADDED: Pocahontas breaks off from traveling tribe to meet up with and warn Sophie and Native about attack on James Fort (they already know about it because of the traitor, Kocuum). But she runs into Nathaniel. They fall in love. Woohoo!

 

TRIVIAL: When Sophie and Native are looking at the stars: Do you ever think about the future? What others will say about us? Or, do you ever think people will want to have known us or travel back in time to 1610?” The Native laughed. “Who would want to come here now? The British have come to destroy my people and land. Other tribes want to kill us. Even without our enemies, there is still conflict between my own people. Lie, cheat, murder. And even without this kind of conflict, there’s disease, thanks to the British. What is the point?” “I suppose you’re right. Who would want to come back here?”

 

“They had abandoned Jamestown and were setting sail for Newfoundland to catch a ride to England aboard the fishing fleet. De La Warr's timely arrival with reinforcements and provisions prevented Virginia from becoming another failed venture like the colony on Roanoke Island in the 1580s.”

 

PLEASE ADD: Scene where West tells Sophie the king has issued a second charter. “After all these investments into the Virginia Company, the King (King James I) has issued a second chapter. He has appointed me governor and captain-general for life!”

 

Hugh O’Neill (Irishman) - fled Ireland in 1607 - Flight of the Earls - West’s friend

 

Robert Devereaux - 2nd earl of Essex

 

Why West didn’t return to Jamestown to gather more troops to attack Weremococo: wouldn’t have element of surprise; Chief Powhatan was sure to have scouts watching James Fort. Powhatan’s would be ready to fight.

 

ADDED: Duo runs for a few minutes, thinking they lost the Irishmen. “We have to go back. I need to know what they’re going to do.” - Native. They loop back around to listen to conversation about next moves. Old man (leader) says oh don’t follow them. A traveler shows up after seeing the fire. Hidden, the Duo observes whole conversation. The traveler (Dutchman? Or Kocumm - traitor?) says he saw at least a hundred Indians up north. They headed east because the northern tribe was unfriendly. He knows no tribe to the east will help Powhatan fight the British. Knowing Powhatan, He figures they’ll go to Virginia beach, then south to the fort. Surprise the British. A home for a home (an for an eye). Duo hears this and leaves, they go southward - farm. Then eastward, past village, to the coast, and North to James Fort to help Powhatan fight.

 

ADD: Nathaniel fake shoots the Native to take him on ship back to London (wants to bring crown down). All the government’s (the powerful) ever done is stomp on him and his family.

 

IDEA: Duo goes to humpback rock (in Monacan territory), they head north from there, but hear the tribe Powhatan and rest of people were supposed to get help from didn’t want to help them (look to map). So Powhatan and people went East, near Virginia Beach. Then went south. Powhatan decided to loop around and attack James Fort. So West and soldiers are behind them. They’ll try to take out the fort, once and for all

 

NOT RELEVANT ANYMORE: “My mother died birthing me. My father has always blamed me for her death. He has many wives, but none of them mean as much to him as my mother did to him.” - the Native

 

April 24th 2016 - 1:22am

While at farm, look at stars - Lover shows constellations

Ending book 1: After lover returns from killing Thomas on ship back to Virginia, it's the dream (the same one Sophie has in beginning of book); Lover walks over hill on beach to reunite with Sophie and child (Boy or girl?)

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ADDED: Powhatan asks Sophie the night of the feast if she wants to be inducted in the tribe. She says she needs to think about it. She has the night and morning to think about it. When she goes to West (her cover is she needed time alone to think and meditate), West tells her to say yes. She inducted into the tribe early at 8 AM. She spends much of the morning learning and bonding with Natives, feeling guilty. It’s all a distraction to kill tribes and get to Powhatan.

 

Alt. Beginning (recently arrived in Jamestown) “What will you wear tonight?” Sophie remembered verbatim. She remembered the warm summer day. She remembered sitting on the hill, laughing with her best friend. She remembered when life was beautifully simple and good. She remembered childhood.

“Sophie!”

 

Should Sophie’s dream be after she hears bonfire stories of Native?

 

SMALL ADD-IN: Have settlers go on search parties for Lost Colony (Roanoke) members. Nate finds one of them with a few Indians hunting in the woods. They want to be left alone. He reports back to the search party, “nothing” supporting the historical claim that nothing or no one from the Lost Colony was found.

 

St Bride’s church on Fleet Street in the city of London

 

16 and 17th century wealthy Europeans ate corpses and the remains of Egyptian mummies thinking they'd cure them of ailments

 

Medieval times: "trial by ordeal" - criminals were forced to put their arm in a vat of boiling water - if it was unscathed, "God protected them" - proving their innocence

 

1500's: Spanish Conquistadors such as Lope de Aguirre exploring the Amazon - initial contacts involved the Spaniards killing the "Indians" and boiling their bodies so the Spaniards could use the human fat to grease the metal of their muskets and cannons (they rusted so quickly because of the jungle humidity)

 

Make up explanation to common belief: the original fort built by the settlers was washed away by the James river - no proof of this

 

Historian/archeologist William Kelso - tobacco pipe in ground, piece of pottery

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Gates - governor before West got there - decided to evacuate settlement - about to leave the Bay and head into open sea - incoming fleet of West

West ordered fort re-occupied, plotted conquest of the surrounding tribes.

July 1610 - He sent Gates against the Kecoughtan - "Gates lured the Indians into the open by means of music-and-dance act by his drummer, and then slaughtered them."

The Indian Chacrow

George Percy: "A world of misery ensues." (From lack of food for the colonists)

1609 - Arsenic (poison in the water) - disease - some had plague when arrived - 300 confined

They ate horses, dogs, cats, vermin, anything

- Brits ate wheat and barley

Jamestown currency - sixpence (1602)

Copper spur (silvered) - important status symbol for gentlemen

- August, 1610, West and his English soldiers raided the Chickahominy and Paspahegh villages, killing wife of Paspahegh chief and her children.

Early Americans, during the colonial times, would ask their servants to rub their oak floorboards “the right way”. The wrong way (not wiping them with dry fabric after wet fabric) would cause streaks to form and ruin it, leaving the homeowner annoyed. Alternatively, it could have derived from rubbing a cat’s fur the “wrong way,” which annoys them.

• When the fort almost burns down, have West say “not again.” (Referring to January 1608 when most of the James Fort and in it, food sent from Chief Powhatan, was accidentally burned down.)

• Colonists were crazy for gold (no hope, did not want to work, just dig for gold) - “one mad fellow desired to be buried in the sands, lest they should by their art make gold of his bones!"

• river herring or Elfwing - British were very impressed with this fish - could see at bottom of estuary - some British described rivers as having more fish than water - water was clean, which was new to British

• Have West say at dinner while eating potatoes, "the poor, bloody Irish; they would have been eradicated if not for the potato.“

• Birds to mention: (Carolina) parakeet and passenger pigeons

• My own quote: "words can either revive a person or kill them; a good person builds, while an evil one destroys. Which one you will be is entirely up to you.”

• "Poplars by the stream" - Job 41

MUST ADD/CHANGE: Cecelia dies when Sophie is young (father kills her, and Sophie later finds out it wasn't plague; whenever west looks at Sophie, she reminds him of her mother, Cecilia; Both Native and Sophie have lost their mothers, this is how they bond and form a friendship

Note: As more English settlers came to Jamestown, Natives became dependent on British for trade goods. *British no longer had to learn Algonquin, but the natives had to learn English - natives were used to learning other languages. Algonquin eventually faded.

• Make Native similar to Pumunangwet at the end - lonesome warrior, but proud to be it to fulfill task of keeping Sophie alive (Philip Sears's sculpture)

• Idea: make Native new leader once he returns?

• In looking at the stars scene, have Native teach Sophie the word for star: ah-TAWN-kwehsss (singular); ah-TAWN-kweh-sssahk (plural)

• Idea: Native takes bullet for Sophie in the end; bullet by her father after West is shot; Native is taken captive by West and British retreat back to ships; all despair and believe the Native to be dead, until he returns with Nathaniel 8 years later.

• Idea: Instead of having West force Sophie to marry (Clayton), have West be kind to Sophie (older), until his dark side is made known to her again, a side she thought vanished from her childhood (West killing natives and ultimately shooting the Native with his musket) - Sophie is happy to go to New World for adventure, but not happy to meet her future husband.

• Geography in London - Option: Have ships set out from the docks at Blackwall (eastward to reach English Channel) on the Thames River - first colonists set out from this

• When searching for Jamestown, a young and impatient aristocrat says, “Bloody hell! why so far inland?” One responds, “to avoid the Spanish you twit.”

• “You don’t want to end up like Archer” (Referring to Captain Gabriel Archer, who died during the Starving time winter of 1609-1610).

• "About my person" - what's on someone (possessions)

• "albeit" instead of although

• It was because West used the shorter route that he and his crew arrived in time to intercept those (ships) abandoning Jamestown.

• Idea: At end, natives and Sophie move to Hampton

• Reason West killed Cecilia: "she thought too freely, with no basis of nationalism, just fool's talk." - Sophie: "You killed her merely because she held different beliefs than you?" - West: "She was a disgrace to England, to God, and to me. She deserved her death. And now, because you’ve turned against me, you deserve yours too."

• Replace "dangerous" with "perilous"

• Replace “more than enough” with “ample”

• Handmaid - female servant

• Threadneedle Street - London

• Native doesn't feel like he deserves grace from God (because he's killed men, both intentionally and unintentionally)

• 1618 is the year Native and Nate return because West attempts to return to Jamestown after report’s of Argall’s tyranny, but he dies in route (Native kills him). Also, Powhatan dies in 1618 - If Book 2 is written, it could begin with the Native at Powhatan’s side, watching him die, recommending his brother or Powhatan’s brother for the position instead of himself. (OR, this event could be alluded to later in the book as a memory or story told by new characters; OR Powhatan is already dead by the time they return and Powhatan’s brother or Native’s brother has already taken leadership position).

CHARACTERIZATIONS:

Sophie originally wanted FREEDOM FROM her FATHER (then she obviously wants FREEDOM FROM her CAPTOR, the Native, and wants to go back to the colony). However, over the course of time, she sees the brutality of her father’s methods, those burned and killed by his hands, but also believes Native reflects her father’s brutality. She’s confused throughout book (if she should side with natives or British; the two side characters serving as representatives for whole side/race), but with Brits mainly on the offensive, Sophie slowly leans further towards native side as story progresses. Each side wants Sophie to provide intelligence (where so and so live, when/if so and so will strike next, etc.). At climax, she completely takes the side of the Native (and natives) after discovering West killed her mother.

Corny stuff: After spending so much time with the Native and going through near-death experiences, she realizes only one person can give her what she seeks: freedom, adventure, and love, and that person is the Native. He is her freedom, her adventure, her love. Sophie wants anyone other than a white man because she has a disinclination towards white males (stereotypes white males from her father and others). Sophie interested in adventure over love. But Native helps her realize she’s not alone and that someone understands her pain/dreams, and this leads to, as said before, Sophie wanting to spend the rest of her life with Native, exploring and learning in rich, abundant love.

• The Native originally wanted freedom from his FATHER (never wanted to kill for him, maybe he likes gardening, I don't know haha), but after he sees his people slaughtered because of his rebellion, he realizes the importance of his role (as a spy) to the tribe. He feels like an outcast with the tribe; his own tribal members start to suspect him and distrust him as a double agent, but he works hard to regain their trust and prove himself, as seen with capturing Sophie (his first solo mission). (Native could be leader one day; secretly doesn't want to though, wants to be free from anything involving death; Powhatan's brother takes position, eventually leading to the tribe's downfall). He wants his homelands to be safe again (freedom from genocide and colonization), sure, but he really wants freedom from Sophie. He's tired of being responsible for her safety, until..(Both Sophie and Native ultimately want to be far away from expectations, and see the unexplored country, or “the world”). Both Sophie and Native are explorers; Native can show Sophie cool spots or sights.

West - horrible to young Sophie (later using the poverty of the family and what he had seen in war as an excuse for his actions, when really he is just a psychopath); He makes good investments/marries Cecilia (who is rich). Family gets rich, great ties with king. West treats Sophie like a princess; Sophie eventually forgets and learns to love and trust her father. This love and trust remains in fact until Sophie finds out about her mother's murder at the hands of West (maybe a political plot, but West would've done it anyway, as "she was getting on my last nerve.") Sophie is disgusted by West, who is smiling and showing his psychopathology, about to kill his own daughter, when the Native intervenes (comes up behind West, stealthily, and grabs and points his gun at West, with West pulling his own trigger accidentally.) Native gets Sophie to safety while West screams in agony. British retreat, carrying West to ship. Native says his goodbyes to Sophie, sneaks to ship with Nathaniel showing him where to hide. Natives finishing off the British. Sophie runs to the dock, under cover of trees, watches the ship sail away with tears.

• *Why doesn’t Sophie love Nathaniel?* I don’t want to make Nate gay, as I created the character in Nate’s image. Also, I want Nate to meet a pretty Native woman when he returns (from the 8 years away in London with the Native).

• *Clean up West’s character - When is he good to Sophie and when is he bad? So far, I have him cruel to young Sophie, then good to young adult Sophie, then back to cruel towards the end. But why is he so cruel to Sophie? Is he trying to make her into a strong woman?

Nathaniel (Sophie’s best friend) - a great and ambitious navigator; purpose: comic relief instead of love triangle; he’s at first terrified by Native, but fright turns into fascination; wants to be a spy or be cool like Native. Becomes friends with Native: helps Native throughout the book (redirects Brits to opposite direction of Native, Sophie, and boy; Also, hides Native on the ship returning to England; also, mans a ship to get Native and himself back to New World, 1618, in order to reconvene with Sophie and show her her deceased father). Does Nate shoot Native? (Not fatally) So his cover remains in tact? (He's finally a spy now like he wanted). Native and Nate discussed the shooting (part of the plan to kill West and get intel in London from the monarchy regarding the colony and natives); Sophie doesn't know about it, she's heartbroken as Native is carried away to ship as a prisoner (she needed to be convincing).

Add footmen in London?

ANOTHER NATIVE CHARACTERIZATION

Native wants to stop killing. Thought it was justifiable at first (to kill those who threaten the peace of the land), but now he wants freedom from the spy life. But this is not as parallel with Sophie, so probably will not use.

Have prologue, then start chapter 1 with Sophie going to sleep to dream "the dream." Before that though, an angry West says (first lines), "Sophie! An enraged voice clamored from downstairs. "You better be in bed! Or I'll-" The little girl quickly clasped her ears with terror and hid herself under her silk sheets. The monster's words were now muffled and unintelligible, but the velocity of its voice increased dramatically as it climbed the staircase and got closer to the frightened girl. Suddenly, the voice halted, and everything (every vibration?) in the air seemed at peace, except the roaring wind in the night. Little Sophie timidly removed her trembling hands from her ears, and began to slowly turn her body towards her bedroom door, but at the sound of one loud, booted footstep, Sophie quickly resumed her position. There were a few more footsteps, each one growing louder, each one with a quickened pace. The monster reached her door, as a familiar creak in the oak floorboard gave its position away. Sophie's eyes innately widened with fear and uncertainty. "Sophie." The voice said, although this time with a gentle, almost troubled tone. "Sophie." It said again. Sophie was now perplexed; her fear turned to puzzlement and wonder. An intense and choked coughing then took place next to her. She wanted to turn over and help, but she feared the potential repercussions. She did not want to get hurt again. No, if her mother were here, she would want Sophie to stay out of trouble. Sophie remained motionless, her eyes still wide looking out her favorite window at the stars. The coughing ceased, and the footsteps began again, nearing Sophie with each discording step. Sophie quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be in a swift and deep sleep. With curiosity, the assumed soon to be perpetrator walked over to the window and then looked at the shut-eyed Sophie. "Hmm." The voice said, almost seeming disappointed. The great whooshing sound of the wind outside grew louder and louder, until it had its way with the large windows in the room. The windows flew open as fast as a door with a loosened hinge would when a hasty member imposed amongst its assumed fortitude. Sophie then heard a rambunctious growl as the demon tried to close the windows, sounding like the family Rottweiler when an unknown visitor approaches. The sound of the roaring wind softened into a whistle. Sophie heard the footsteps again, although this time, the floorboards creaked as they do when leaving the room. The steps stopped at the room entrance. Sophie then heard a great sigh behind her. "Sophie, I-" the gentle voice stopped. "I-" it began again, but stopped once more. Another sigh was let out. The footsteps then began again, continuing out of the room, this time at a normal pace. They faded into the downstairs, giving Sophie her own sigh, but hers was of relief.

Chief Powhatan - “Ruled by the threat of force but also by marriage alliances and persuasion. The various tribes paid tribute to Powhatan.” He never visited Jamestown. “Well proportioned man” - somewhat grey hair, nearly 60 years old, strong man able to endure any labor. All his people greatly fear him and do whatever he asks (or present anything to him whatever he asks). - At the least frown of brow - “Very terrible and tyrannous in punishing” those who offend him. Described as strange by John Smith (how much they adore and fear him at the same time; whatever he commands, no one will dare disobey him).

 

• “In 1609 Powhatan ordered his warriors to lay siege to James Fort, which was the catalyst for the infamous “starving time” winter that killed several hundred colonists. This began the first Anglo-Powhatan war, which lasted until the 1614 marriage of one of Powhatan’s daughters, Pocahontas, to English colonist John Rolfe. This marriage had the blessing of Powhatan and lead to a relatively peaceful period in relations between the two peoples. Powhatan died in April 1618.”

• Analogy: West closed the windows (her favorite one too) at the wind (the Spirit), implying the devil or demon is trying to close her off from God, and what's good for her in life; closing the truth."

• have the wall of the church in the Jamestown fort looking to be of poor masonry work (bricks, mortar and plaster) - name of type of church: chancel

• Other names for West: Governor, Sir, Lord Delaware

• West was (literally in fact by a court record) buried at Jamestown

• silver tinsel - West supposedly had these

• Have West use a silver-spangled fabric tassel.

• West timely saved (relief expedition) the colony from starving (during starving time 1609-1610).

• Add Sir Toby Belch as a character (Shakespeare, 12th Night)

Monacans are Powhatan tribe's enemy

According to Henry Spelman, it took 4 or 5 days to get to Jamestown from Cape Henry, sailing up the Powhatan river.

Have West say, "put that door back on its hinges!"

June 7th, 1610 - Deliverance and Patience set sail and abandoned Jamestown for English fishermen (not enough provisions) - Sir Thomas Gates decided the move ^^

The next morning, West and 400 colonists and soldiers show up

Optional: To avoid Nate in love triangle, make him gay and create a new character to fill spot in triangle. Maybe his brother; he should be tough and cool, like Native. Maybe he even helps save Sophie as a girl in seas. But Nate helps first (can't swim?) brother then jumps in after Nate and saves both

optional: Child Sophie forgets about West's evil nature from coma she was put in by West or by falling, hitting her head on docks?

“Talking leads to two things: 1. Greater intimacy, and 2. Death” - original

Maybe Sophie has an uncle - a kind person like Uncle Iroh (eh..)

Military practice of Native Americans - coup - touching brits to establish superiority - not to hurt enemy, but say, "I could hurt you badly, I just choose not to."

Sophie’s main connection to Native should be the loss of both of their mothers; this should start the friendship; they begin to understand each other

Not an original idea (Batman Begins, league of shadows): the plague came partly from loading "trade ships with plague rats." "Burned London to the ground"

Beginning: Sophie sees poverty and world in agony around her; wants to get away to a land with no weeping (peaceful, scenic, tranquil). People fear and hate her father, but she doesn't know why (kind of like Ivanka you know who with her father) (alt. West characterization/AKA deceptively good guy; raises Sophie up to marry her in New World, the first woman, and get more money/grant from king to bring more women over to expand British population; West offers his own daughter to be the first woman over, fully knowing how dangerous it will be; she's royalty and shouldn't be the first woman, granted some aristocratic men came over not knowing they would have to work and how deathly it would be. Might need something stronger. In new world, Sophie starts to pick up on West's cruelty and violent nature, eventually discovering he killed her mother.

At end: West: But they're despicable, Sophie! You can't seriously be siding with the savages!

Sophie: "Well, like you've said father: sometimes you have to choose the better of two horrible options."

Sophie has to act proper from aristocratic life, but in secret, Nate shows her how to fight (not good at it, just dreams he was good at it, wants to be BA; Native is BA); an escape; she can take anger out from abusive father

Give backstory of Native (like we are given backstory of Sophie), just make it more condensed.

Whatever your background, you can come together and love a person completely different from you. Open debate is important to grow as people and learn to be more accepting and loving.

 

Book title ideas:

"Those Who Found It" (happiness, adventure, love, referring to Sophie, Nate and Native)

The Seekers

Tomahawk sickly cot

"As soon as the magic trick has been done the whole business of the fantasy writer is to keep everything else human and real. Touches of prosaic detail are imperative and a rigorous adherence to the hypothesis. Any extra fantasy outside the cardinal assumption immediately gives a touch of irresponsible silliness to the invention.” - H.G. Wells

Have Sophie talk about Galileo and the telescope (1609)

To fulfill "spy" role: Native left tribe (before he left, he was extensively trained to be an operative) at 15 (sent by his father, Powhatan, to spy on British and give frequent reports), he's 21 when Sophie arrives (June 8th, 1610). He claimed he was beaten and exiled by the tribe for desertion. No more ties to any tribes, he claims. The British take him in to learn more about the natives, some of the language for trading, and how to fish/hunt. He leaves British to starve though right before starving time. Sophie and Nate overhear Brits telling stories/legends about the native spy who fooled them (campfire?). Much hate against Native; especially West when he hears about him; he blames Native for Jamestown almost failing, getting in the way of king's and God's will. Sophie and Nate are fascinated. They don't meet Native until he returns to Jamestown (after a siege to see what West or the new governor in command protects/values the most to take him down indefinitely; also hoping to have the upper hand since they're striking when the Brits are most hungry, they've waited all this time. But West had already saved the colony). The Native spending about 6 years with the British explains his good English. Capturing Sophie is a very important op for Native. If he succeeds, his father Powhatan promises him a position of high power within the tribe or he gets permission to venture off on his own.

 

Alt. West characterization - he's "good" from beginning to climax (when he reveals he killed Cecilia). He covered up the accidental murder (from rage) and payed a doctor to claim she died from the plague. "It's them, Sophie. Not me! They're the problem. All the natives and Irish and anyone else who gets in the way. It's God's will!" "Don't hide behind God! He will burn you."

West hates Native all the more because not only did he take his daughter, but West's men fear the Native more than West (West came to establish order and make sure the colony was successful by order of King James). If his men fear the Native more than West, there won't be any order and the colony will fail. Also, how will Sophie be saved without soldiers? Also, King James trusted West to succeed in his mission of making the colony prosper. In other words, there’s a lot of pressure on West (causes him to go from good to tough, angry, and merciless when he arrives in Jamestown; his original form. Does he have multi-personality disorder? Have readers love and hate him, off and on?

Alt. beginning - Sophie has beach dream (for a second time) - but is normal age (20 or 21). Good Thomas runs to her bed. “Sophie, wake up what is it?!” “I had it again” She says. She falls back to sleep and dreams a new dream (of Brits chasing Native through woods). - alt. Thomas was a spy for King James as a young man (knew him since birth)

Alt. Sophie is a spy too (West makes it easy for her to get captured; Sophie has been raised to fight, has no idea why; West wants to make a name for himself and have people fear the West family more; If his only (yes) daughter took down Powhatan, then oh boy! West gets Sophie to cooperate by lying to her about her mother being raped and killed by a native, likely as “savage” as the Native). The Native knows it’s too easy (thinks it’s a trap) to capture Sophie, so he waits and surprises everyone, including West. West and his men pursue them, with West hoping Sophie will still do her part with the terror she and everyone experiences from the Native. When Sophie gives info on an Indian camp and West burns it down, she feels regret and starts to turn away from her father.

More than one crow - a murder (exultation of larks)

More than one raven - an unkindness

Native peoples - "the forest belongs to the men, while the clearing belongs to the women."

Have Native wear a shell bead necklace

Ann Burbas Laydon

In October 1610, Lord De La Warr ordered Captain Yeardley and Captain Edward Brewster to lead 150 men into the mountains in search of silver and gold mines.

 

Why is the book called The Native Lover? Sophie is told by her father at a young age that Native Americans raped and killed her mother (raided a ship, then dragged her ashore and to their camp); Sophie holds disdain for Natives because of this, disdain mainly spurred from her father. She’s skeptical that her mother died, as when she turned 21 at a party, she slips into West’s office and finds papers indicting her mother might have survived in the new world. When she approaches her father about this withheld information (as he returns to the West mansion the next morning by carriage), West tells Sophie that he had plans to venture to the new world in the coming fall, but didn’t want to tell Sophie and give her false hope (a slim chance that Cecilia would be alive). Sophie stomps off in rage to the Docks, where Nathaniel is trying to catch a seagull. Nathaniel comforts her. Sophie tells him about the new information on her mother, and that she’s going to go to the New World to find her mother and save her; that she’d do anything to rescue her. Nathaniel supports her decision and also says a funny line about venturing (also, he insists he must go to the New World). Sophie approaches West once more, calmed, and asks to go on the voyage. West agrees, but with conditions: 1. Sophie must become a spy for West, 2. She has to marry a man of West’s choosing. Sophie agrees. They make the voyage. When they arrive, they’re attacked by settlers. When settlers are settled down, Sophie asks the original, surviving settlers about her mother. They tell Sophie they don’t where she is, but tell stories about the infamous spy who betrayed them all and left them for dead. “Maybe he took her.” One settler says. “If he did,” the settler continues, “she’s already dead.”

 

Reached 43, 710 words November 16, 2017 at 1:05 AM (halfway through outline; done with page 4)

 

“Powhatan males, according to Strachey, were expected to earn new names that celebrated their exploits. From an early age (10-15), boys faced pressure to become proficient enough marksmen that their fathers would take them along on hunts. While a boy's mother continued to call him by an affectionate child's name, his father watched him perform on hunts and then bestowed a new young man's name. Other names might follow as his proficiency in hunting and war grew, and when the young man became initiated into manhood and then performed a truly outstanding feat as a warrior, the tribal chief gave him yet another name to memorialize his deeds. These names were not titles; they were personal names to be used in conversation.” - Explains Native’s reasoning for killing the guards and kidnapping Sophie.”

 

• Huskanaw Ritual: IMPORTANT

John Smith wrote that the best young hunters completed the huskanaw at anywhere from ten to fifteen years of age.

the Indian boys were taken deep into the forest and given a drink—no recipe was recorded—that seems to have induced hallucination, spasms of violence, and amnesia. If their violent outbursts became uncontrollable, the boys were confined to cages built of saplings.

After several months of this regimen, the boys returned to their villages. Their boyhood memories, including even their ability to recognize their own mothers, was said to have been erased

 

“Children, like adults, wore leggings when traveling through forested areas with briars,”

 

Deer and wild turkey were hunted

 

“The desire to bring pride and avoid shame through a personal name led boys to seek out bigger quarry (animal or human) and greater danger. Men continued to receive new names in adulthood, the most prestigious bestowed by chiefs as rewards for outstanding military performance. The pressure to earn new and better names remained even into old age. Fathers did their part by refusing to allow their boys to accompany them on hunts until their marksmanship, coordination, and running skills were adequately developed. Boys were forced to practice long and hard to earn the privilege of joining the hunt.”

 

according to the Englishman William Strachey, who visited Jamestown from 1610 until 1611, their breakfasts often depended on their shooting skill. Mothers tossed moss into the air and insisted that their boys earn their food by hitting it with an arrow.

 

For at least two centuries, it had been custom among the English at various levels of society to foster out their children into other families—preferably of a higher status—as a means of advancing socially.

 

Indians had gift exchange economy - in turn expected promise of gifts

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November 15th, 2016

Add-ins

Gates - governor before West got there - decided to evacuate settlement - about to leave the Bay and head into open sea - incoming fleet of West

West ordered fort re-occupied, plotted conquest of the surrounding tribes.

July 1610 - He sent Gates against the Kecoughtan - "Gates lured the Indians into the open by means of music-and-dance act by his drummer, and then slaughtered them."

The Indian Chacrow

George Percy: "A world of misery ensues." (From lack of food for the colonists)

1609 - Arsenic (poisonous in the water) - disease - some had plague when arrived - 300 confined

They are horses, dogs, cats, vermin - anything

- Brits ate wheat and barley

Jamestown currency - sixpence (1602)

Copper spur (silvered) - important status symbol for gentlemen

- August, 1610, West and his English soldiers raided the Chickahominy and Paspahegh villages, killing wife of Paspahegh chief and her children

Early Americans, during the colonial times, would ask their servants to rub their oak floorboards “the right way”. The wrong way (not wiping them with dry fabric after wet fabric) would cause streaks to form and ruin it, leaving the homeowner annoyed. Alternatively, it could have derived from rubbing a cat’s fur the “wrong way,” which annoys them.

- John Smith on Powhatan: He is of parsonage a tall well proportioned man . . . his head somwhat gray. . . . His age neare 60; of a very able and hardybody to endure any labour.

What he commandeth they dare not disobey in the least thing. It is strange to see with what great feare and adoration all these people doe obay this Powhatan. For at his feet, they present whatsoever he commandeth, and at the least frowne of his browe, their greatest spirits will tremble with feare: and no marvell, for he is very terrible and tyrannous in punishing such as offend him.

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Books to Read for NL:

Blood on the River

Martin's Hundred

Before and after Jamestown (Powhatan)

The Tempest

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Potential Book Titles:

1610

The Native Lover

Anglo-Powhatan

Ang-Pow

The Native’s Lover