A Narrative Of The Captivity Mary Rowlandson Analysis

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The amount of faith it takes to be strong as Mary Rowlandson is massive. As it can be represented in “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson” She focuses on the importance of her faith and how it helped her thru the hard physical and emotional hardships Rowlandson had to go when captured by the Indians. Rowlandson narrates her experiences in the first person. She is telling the story as a memoir, focused on events she has witnessed and experiences that have taken place on February 1675 until may 1676. Rowlandson tone is colored by hindsight. Although she is at times filled with despair, her overall tone remains hopeful. Her tone can be seen as didactic showing how keeping your faith in god can do you good. Mary Rowlandson’s

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