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    The amount of faith it takes to be strong as Mary Rowlandson is massive. As it can be represented in “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson” She focuses on the importance of her faith and how it helped her thru the hard physical and emotional hardships Rowlandson had to go when captured by the Indians. Rowlandson narrates her experiences in the first person. She is telling the story as a memoir, focused on events she has witnessed and experiences that have taken place…

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    passed away peacefully in a small ceremony on January 5, 1711. Leaving behind two children and one daughter who sadly perished in the infamous Indian raid. She is most famous for her spiritually autobiographical captivity narrative, a true historical account of Native American captivity which became a bestselling novel during the 17th century. Mary’s writing style propelled this popular subject matter to heights by driving home the concept of colonial racial superiority. Her importance to…

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    I had walked in Gods sight; which lay so close unto my spirit that it was easy for me to see how righteous it was with God to cut off the thread of my life and cast me out of His presence forever? says Mary Rowlandson, in her A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Here there are a reflection of religious connotations that are important to the Puritan way of life. This narrative is certainly a Puritan piece of literary work. Through identifying elements of…

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    In reading the narrative written by Mary Rowlandson, it details her time in captivity during the Metacom 's War. During the reading, Mary often talks about her Puritan faith; and how it gets her through the horrific ordeal she endured, how she felt about the Indians, and what type of person Mary becomes in after she has returned home. In the end, Mary returns to her native land and we determine if she is a changed person or would she be considered a white English Christian. In the beginning,…

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    When Christopher Columbus set sail for his first voyage, I doubt that he any clue on the chain of events he would set off. Christopher intended to expand the Spanish colonization and to find riches to deliver to his King and Queen, not thinking about the blood that would be shed by both the Spaniards and the Natives. As soon as the Europeans set foot on the Natives land, it was obvious there was going to be trouble. It is obvious that these events van be viewed under two different perspectives.…

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    In 1675, King Phillips War was going on and colonies were being taken over and people were being held captive by Native Americans. Mary Rowlandson’s was one of many held captive. In her book, A Narrative of the Captivity an Restoration, her faith is tested, and she demonstrates that her relationship with God is just as strong as ever, she uses it as an opportunity to spread the word of God. One reason Rowlandson survived was because of her faith and her optimism while she was captured. Her…

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    essence of the story. This novel stands as a captivity narrative in a modern publication. The book was released to Random House Publishing company in 2001. Although it offers the generic conventions of a traditional captivity narrative, its modern sense…

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    captive by the Native Americans. Mary Rowlandson is considered one of the most famous victims of the Native American attacks. Her captivity became one of the “most popular prose works of the seventeenth century” (Baym, 257). Because of its popularity during the seventeenth century as well as Rowlandson being among one of the only female writers to write about her captivity, it allows the readers to understand more about the Indian attacks that the first settlers…

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    Ngugi’s novel follows four main characters who tell us about their experiences days before the Mau Mau rebellion against the British colonial rule. The dominant theme which I believe that Ngugi is trying to convey is that of betrayal. Which is depicted mainly through four main characters: Mugo, Gikonyo and his spouse; Mumbi, and Karanja. Ngugi forces us to think about Mugo: his betrayal of his friend Kihika, the leader of the rebellion. He forces us to find reasons as to why he actually…

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    Mary Rowlandson Captivity

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    In the narrative, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, the author Mary Rowlandson, was captured by Indians as known as “barbarous creatures (259). Mary Rowlandson had to witness half of her family be murdered and be separated from her children without any acknowledgement where they could be. During her journey with the Indians, she started to lose hope especially when her one of her children dies, but she knew she could not show too much fear in front of her…

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