The Interesting Narrative By Mary Rowlandson

The Islamic State of Iraq, also known as ISIS, has seized and controls large parts of land stretching from Iraq to northern Syria. Over this stretch of land, ISIS controls millions of people. (“What is ISIS”) ISIS is a very brutal group that use inhumanly tactics to punish people, such a beheading and drowning civilians. ("ISIS Child Soldiers Behead Captives in Chilling Amusement Park.") ISIS also uses social media and other propaganda to persuade and recruit people from all over the world to join them and their harsh ways. The crisis that is taking place in Iraq, Syria, and other place due to ISIS can relate to many of the stories that we have read from this semester. Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equanio stories relate to the many people that are in ISIS’s captivity held against their will, Ralph Ellison relates to how ISIS forces their woman to dress, Ralph Ellison story also relates to how many people that do not wish to be involved in ISIS have to try to fit in to survive. There …show more content…
They are also forced to do stuff that they wish not to do just so they are not hurt more than they already are.
Another topic retaining to the girls in captivity is that when captured, members of ISIS claimed that if they didn’t convert to Islam and believe in the Quran that they would kill all the men that was in their family. Due to them wanting to save their families, they converted in hopes to make sure their family wasn’t injured. ("Teen girls recall horrors of ISIS captivity.") This pertains to Ralph Ellisons story “The Invisible Man”, because like him, the girls had to go around pretending to be something they was not, because deep in their hearts they never changed their