What Is The Narrative Of Mary Rowlandson's Captivity

Native Americans were the first to settle in America and were defined by the English as indigenous people. The English labeled the indigenous people as “savages” and viewed them as an uncivilized culture, while they viewed themselves as a civilized culture. In Robert Warrior’s “Indian,” he argues the idea of the present absence of indigenous culture meaning their culture is what made up American culture and no one realizes it. In the “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,” Mary Rowlandson explains her feelings and experience while Native Americans held her captive. In the beginning, her perception of the world was defined as either savage or civilized. Throughout Rowlandson’s captivity, her perception between savagery and civilization started to change and she developed this fear of not …show more content…
In the second remove she puts her trust in God, “It is not my tongue, or pen, can express the sorrows of my heart, and bitterness of my spirit that I had at this departure: but God was with me in a wonderful manner, carrying me along, and bearing up my spirit, that is did not quite fail” (Rowlandson 272). She continued to go through captivity depending on God’s will and believing she was put her for a reason and she would eventually be free. She says the only reasons she had the ability to tolerate the meat was a gift from God to survive captivity. Rowlandson starts to contradict herself because it then worries her that her savagery is increasing and it is removing her from civilization because she was able to tolerate the meat. Mary Rowlandson then went to explain how God wanted to teach civilians a lesson and to be grateful of their freedom. She realized how poorly the civilians treated and thought of Indians. At the end of her captivity, Rowlandson’s perspective of the world was not clear and she acquired a sense of