Compare and Contrast of two Authors In the story "The General History Of Virginia" by John Smith, was a story on how he made people come to the new world. John Smith style of writing was more poetic than Bradford's, John Smith used lots af adjectives. And William Bradford he was a plain writer he did not use any special words he would use normal words and to his point. Even though these men lived the same time period they were still totally different from each other. John Smith and William Bradford were both really prejudice and hated the Indians, But towards the end William Bradford became nice to them and