The Truth

When one hears the word pirate, we tend to think about Captain hook from Peter-pan or Johnny Deep from Pirates of the Caribbean. One would describe a pirate with a eyepatch and wobbling around. Films and novels have created a new image of pirates while the real image was swept under a rug.
" Under The Black Flag" by David Cordingly is a book I am currently reading, teaching me the truth about pirates. Pirates were robbers, murders, ruthless savages. An example of this was the letter of Miss Lucretia Parker who was captured by Cuban Pirates in 1825. This letter was written to her brother and she described the death of Captain Charles Smith. This is one out of the many murders Pirates committed. Some are just too gruesome to even be posted here imagine the movie of " SAW" victims but in real life.
It is obvious that Disney would have not included the gruesome truth about pirates into their film "Pirates of the Caribbean". They want their films to be enjoyed by their audience, not scare them away. Which makes sense on why they fabricated some things about pirates. I am not pointing fingers that it was all Disney who romanticized pirates, but also the creator of "Treasure Islands " By Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this book with his intentions being of targeting a young audience to read this...more specifically young boys. When writing this story he took advise from his family and weaving it in with the story which is how we got that women were considered weak to be pirates. To get straight into the point is that the book " Treasure Islands" also help fabricated many things about pirates.
Its ok to enjoy these things but then again we can not forget the truth about pirates.