Mary Rowlandson Captivity Narrative Examples

Imagine being captured by someone with no way of knowing if you would come back out of the situation alive. How would you feel? Most would feel terrified at that point; not knowing if they will live or die. When someone is captured by someone else and lives to tell of their story, that is called a captivity narrative. A captivity narrative explains the author's experiances of when they were kidnapped; like how they get separated from their family, not know if they will ever see them again. It gives an inside look on what went on and what they thought when this happened to them, how they lose everything. Examples of a captivity narrative would be A
Narrative of the Captivity, by Mary Rowlandson, and The Interesting Narrative …show more content…
Rowlandson and Equiano may have been alike in some ways, but had extremely different experiances. Rolandson was kidnapped by Indians while Equiano was taken by Africans, then captured again by white slave traders, who were much crueler to him than Rowlandson's captors. Rolandson says, "Yet I answered they would kill me.
"No," said he, "none will hurt you." Then came one of them and gave me two spoonfuls of meal to confort me, and another gave me half a pint of peas.." Equiano was the one who was on a slave ship where people would throw themselves off the ship to get away. Equiano says, "..on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across, I think, the windlass, and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely." The two captives were held for different periods of time. Mary
Rowlandson was rescued eleven weeks and five days after being