The answer changes everything.

The Homecoming As The True Beginning

If Tisquantum’s story were told from his perspective rather than Plymouth’s, the narrative would probably not climax with the harvest gathering.

Its emotional center would come earlier.

A man taken from his homeland finally sees the coast again.

He returns expecting people.

He finds silence.

The homes are deserted.

Fields are overgrown.

The epidemic has reached backward into every memory he carried across the Atlantic.