Religion plays the biggest part in the whole story because throughout the whole story Mary Rowlandson is constantly referring to the Bible. There is not a page in the story where the Bible is not mention at least one time in some shape or form. I think that this isn't a very big shock because back in the 1600s religion was a part of everyone's daily life. In the 1600s, you had no choice but to live by the Bible because if you didn't everyone believed you would go straight to hell. They might have even stayed away from a person who didn't believe in the Bible like they did or a person that continued to sin. Another reason that everyone might have lived by the Bible is because that was the way they were raised up to by their mothers and fathers.
