A Narrative Of The Captivity Mary Rowlandson Summary
At first sight, these two works have little things in common. The settings are very different one from another and the narratives depicted different times and also different historical contexts. Mary Rowlandson was a Puritan woman, wife and daughter of Puritans’ reverends, established in Lancaster, Massachusetts, in the colony called New England. The book entitled A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) reports her captivity – with her children – by Indians during King Philip’s War in 1676. She was captive eleven weeks that ended with her release after undergo extreme conditions in wilderness, even the death of her youngest child in Mary’s arms the first week of the captivity, and only with the companion of a bible.
…show more content…
After her experience she wrote it down, according to the title page “for the benefit of the afflicted” as Davis points out (50).
This text is very important for the whole American literary tradition and this book originated several texts based on this idea, about fictional or non-fictional text, coining the captivity narrative term and generating a genre itself. In Bauer’s words, this text is an example of the “gendered specificities of the frontier experience and the colonial encounter” (667). In this narrative readers can find real events of a women who survived to the captivity and she become stronger because of the reinforcement she suffered in her strong believes and her faith in God. By writing this text, Mary Rowlandson “exploits her authority as a captive” in order to present real events in comparison to those texts of travelers from England who have not spend some weeks under an Indian
captivity.
The Hunger Games (2008), written by Suzanne Collins, is the first part of a trilogy completed by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010) (Henthorne, 18-20). The first book narrates the story of Katniss Everdeen, a 16 years old woman who lives in a fictional and futuristic dystopian North American county, placed where nowadays are USA. The country, Panem, is divided in 12 districts ruled by the Capitol, where people are supplied by the districts’ raw materials. Katniss lives in District 12 with her mother and sister after her father’s death, haunting illegally in order to be able to survive the hard conditions imposed by Panem’s government. Every year the capitol push 24 young tributes – one male and one female in each district from 12 to 18 years old – into an arena where they have to survive over the rest by killing them. This is known as the Hunger Games and it is a kind of TV show in which the Capitol citizens bet for their favorite kid. She offered herself as volunteer when her young sister is selected and she starts a journey with her co-tribute, Peeta Mellark, trying to back home alive.
In The Hunger Games readers discover a new and futuristic world in with Katniss makes a “transformative journey from some the Capitol regards as a poverty-stricken nobody to the heroic symbol of a rebellion against tyranny” (Pharr & Clark, 220). In the first book starts the evolution of the character that concludes in Mockingjay, but it is in this book when she suffers the captivity from the Capitol and the isolation from her loved ones and the world she has known for 16 years.
After her experience she wrote it down, according to the title page “for the benefit of the afflicted” as Davis points out (50).
This text is very important for the whole American literary tradition and this book originated several texts based on this idea, about fictional or non-fictional text, coining the captivity narrative term and generating a genre itself. In Bauer’s words, this text is an example of the “gendered specificities of the frontier experience and the colonial encounter” (667). In this narrative readers can find real events of a women who survived to the captivity and she become stronger because of the reinforcement she suffered in her strong believes and her faith in God. By writing this text, Mary Rowlandson “exploits her authority as a captive” in order to present real events in comparison to those texts of travelers from England who have not spend some weeks under an Indian
captivity.
The Hunger Games (2008), written by Suzanne Collins, is the first part of a trilogy completed by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010) (Henthorne, 18-20). The first book narrates the story of Katniss Everdeen, a 16 years old woman who lives in a fictional and futuristic dystopian North American county, placed where nowadays are USA. The country, Panem, is divided in 12 districts ruled by the Capitol, where people are supplied by the districts’ raw materials. Katniss lives in District 12 with her mother and sister after her father’s death, haunting illegally in order to be able to survive the hard conditions imposed by Panem’s government. Every year the capitol push 24 young tributes – one male and one female in each district from 12 to 18 years old – into an arena where they have to survive over the rest by killing them. This is known as the Hunger Games and it is a kind of TV show in which the Capitol citizens bet for their favorite kid. She offered herself as volunteer when her young sister is selected and she starts a journey with her co-tribute, Peeta Mellark, trying to back home alive.
In The Hunger Games readers discover a new and futuristic world in with Katniss makes a “transformative journey from some the Capitol regards as a poverty-stricken nobody to the heroic symbol of a rebellion against tyranny” (Pharr & Clark, 220). In the first book starts the evolution of the character that concludes in Mockingjay, but it is in this book when she suffers the captivity from the Capitol and the isolation from her loved ones and the world she has known for 16 years.