Blood on the River (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Samuel Collier: Young orphan traveling from London to the New World as a page to Captain John Smith (main character)
• Reverend Hunt: Minister traveling to the New World with the intent of spreading Christianity to the natives there
• Captain John Smith: Leader
• Richard: Young servant
• Sir Edward Maria Wingfield: Member of the Virginia Company
• Captain Bartholomew Gosnold: Add a description of this character.
• Captain John Ratcliffe: Captain of the ship, Discovery.
• Captain Christopher Newport: Captain of the ship, Susan Constant.
• George Percy: Gentleman
• James: Nine-year-old servant to George Percy
• Henry: Servant to Master Wingfield
• Abram: Servant to Master Wingfield
• Samuel Collier: A homeless boy who lost his parents when he was young. Now he has been sent to the new world(America).
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• “Do not let your anger get the best of you. Channel it - let it give you strength for what you can do to change things, to make things better.”

  Captain John Smith

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• “Learn to channel it, and it will become your strength rather than your weakness.”

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• Your heart will know better than your head. Choose the path of love and not of fear. The choice you make out of love will always be the right one.”

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• “You might have been born the biggest fish in the sea, but the skill and perseverance of those lower born can take you down and destroy you.”

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• But I want to go for the gold. They say it washes up on shore with every tide.

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• “You must obey this now for a law that he that will not work shall not eat, except by sickness he be disabled. For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain an hundred and fifty idle loiterers.”   —Captain John Smith, quoted in William Symonds, ed., The Proceedings

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• I know it is only a matter of time before he strikes. It will not be with his fists, as we commoners do. It will be with his power, and it will be worse than fists.

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• “No,” says Captain Gosnold gravely. “This one is dead.”

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• The trees are so tall I feel as if I am in a cathedral. I breathe in the rich smell of damp earth. The leaves are a bright early spring green, and sprinkled along the ground are tiny flowers of white, yellow, and violet. Butterflies and dragonflies add to the riot of color. I am either in a cathedral or in paradise, I think.

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• ON SEPTEMBER 10, 1608, Captain John Smith takes the oath of office and becomes our new president. He officially decrees: “He that will not work shall not eat,” and he holds us to it. Gentleman or not, any man who wants supper has to pitch in.

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• Travel south until your butter melts, then turn right. —Old British mariner’s axiom: How to get to the New World

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1. Elisa Lynn Carbone (Author)

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