Analysis Of The Warmth Of The Savages By Mary Rowlandson

The Warmth of the Savages
In Mary Rowlandson captive story, there are many events that show how the Indians treated her and everything she had to go through as a captive. Now even though the reader sees her point of view of the Indians, this does not give the reader a full picture of both sides of the story. This meaning that the reader does not get a full point of view of the Native Americans as well. The actions of the Native Americans do contradict what Rowlandson is telling in her story because she is interpreting things through her point of view as a puritan. She does not know exactly why she went through such a thing. Instead she goes on to believe that she went through all of that because God was testing her faith. In way, that may have …show more content…
The reader sees Rowlandson goes through so many lows points in her capture that she ends up judging all of the Native Americans as cruel people. Yet, throughout the story her experiences show the reader that not all of them are the same. Rowlandson story is a great example of how many people generally tend to judge a book by its cover. Meaning we as humans tend to judge other people by assumptions. Rowlandson and almost generally everyone else back then thought that all the Native Americans were wild and crazy beast who did not know how to act like civilized humans. This was not the case and yet the Europeans judge them and treated them so badly that the Indians had to fight for themselves. Today, we still see the outcome of the Native Indians. The majority of them died, there cultures faded away, and what’s left of them is just a memory of who they use to be. Sure there are still some Indians today in our society but if the Europeans and the New England colonies had been kind and helped the American Indians back then we would probably have more culture, literature, you name it of the American Indians today. I find this kind odd of how we are still going through this same issues today in the United States. People being judged and not being accepted into this multicultural country because of their skin color, backgrounds, beliefs, etc. If we could all generally stop assuming things, start viewing everyone equally, and help each other out like we say we are as a “United” country, then maybe our country will deserve and stay as the “The City Upon a