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Why is the narrator William Bradford who wrote the "Plymouth Plantation not reliable?

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"Plymouth Plantation" is, at core, a journal. Everything described in it is "contaminated" by the view of the person writing it, making facts not entirely reliable. Even though the narrator describes an historical process, he is influentiated by his religious view of the world.

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