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By Stephen Wright
Going Native is Stephen Wright’s darkly comedian tackle the line novel, within which one man’s headlong break out from the yankee Dream turns into everybody’s worst nightmare. Wylie Jones is determined: beautiful spouse, appealing young children, barbecues within the yard of his tastefully adorned suburban Chicago condo with strong associates. Set, yet no longer chuffed. So one evening he simply walks out, will get at the back of the wheel of a neighbor’s emerald-green Galaxy 500, and drives off into another existence, his identify replaced, his character malleable. In Wright’s inimitable narrative, we’re taken on a pleasure journey to hell, a rollercoaster of intercourse and violence and the strange mixture of the 2 that's our society this present day.
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And yet there were reasons to consider the region around Cape Cod as a possible settlement site. In the final chaotic months before their departure from England, Weston and others had begun to insist that a more northern site in New England—which was the new name for what are now the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont—was a better place to settle. As Cape Cod’s name indicated, this region was 36 Mayflower renowned for the large schools of cod that frequented these shores.
Seeing it as an opportunity to add to their already considerable personal wealth, two groups of noblemen—one based in London, the other to the west in Plymouth— were eager to underwrite British settlements in America, and in 1606, James created the Virginia Company. But after the Plymouth group’s attempts to found a colony in modern Maine failed miserably and Jamestown proved to be something less than a financial success, the two branches of the Virginia Company realized that they, too, lacked the resources required to colonize America.
Despite the chaotic and acrimonious nature of the preparations in They Knew They Were Pilgrims 23 England, the Pilgrims in Leiden forged ahead, purchasing a sixty-ton vessel named the Speedwell. Less than fifty feet in length, she was considered large enough for a voyage across the Atlantic; earlier expeditions had successfully completed the crossing in vessels that were less than half the Speedwell ’s tonnage. The Pilgrims hired a master and crew who agreed to stay on for at least a year in America and who undoubtedly oversaw the fitting out of the vessel with two new and larger masts.