The Unredeemed Captive Summary

“The Unredeemed Captive” by John Demos is a book of not only about history, but of family and faith. In this book, Demos tells of a colony in early Massachusetts, a little town of Deerfield, where the family of Pastor John Williams and others are subject to a massacre from the French and Mohawk Indians. Williams, his wife, and three of his children are then taken hostage to Canada. As the book goes on, Williams and two of his children are released; however, his daughter Eunice is kept in captivity with a tribe of Indians. Demos constructs this book as stories told by Williams about faith, captivity, and family. Demos in “The Unredeemed Captive,” is trying to tell the audience a piece of history of colonial America; however, he writes in a sense of story style instead of just …show more content…
After Demos introduces Williams and explains the massacre it goes into the journey to Canada and then describes the events as Williams is released back to Boston. Demos writes in a thematic way because he first talks all about Williams and then starts to write about other captives and then about Eunice. If the book was written completely in chronological order then the story about other captives and Eunice would be interwoven as the date came about rather than after Williams arrived back at Deerfield. At the beginning of “The Unredeemed Captive,” Demos integrates quotes into his own words very well. Demos most likely does this to show facts and references without disrupting the flow of the story. As the story goes on, the author starts using block quotes in his chapters to give more information from his references. Demos uses the block style to incorporate more of Williams own writings into the