Comparison Of Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty And Goodness Of God

Throughout Mary Rowlandson Story, The Sovereignty and Goodness of god, Rowlandson shares her experience of being captured by Native Americans. Of course it is an unpleasant experience for Rowlandson. Although this Narrative is told from a puritans point of view, one must also consider seeing the opposing view, and that is the Native Americans point of view. Yes, the Native Americans did assassin many white settlers and kept some hostage, but they were not just doing this because native americans were pure evil. They did it because they wanted revenge for what the white Settlers had done to them. Before the Native Americans started attacking white settlers, we have to understand that the white settlers did way more to disturb the Native American
She was a house wife, brave, religious, and married to an important man that eventually helped her and her child be free from the native americans. When Rowlandson was captured she was basically taken on a journey going through different places until the indians had taken her to King Phillip (tribe leader). King Phillip was then going to decide what he was going to do with her and the other people that were captured by the indians. Basically all the indians wanted was to exchange Rowlandson for some goods that will benefit the Native Americans. Of course this is not right to be exchanging a person for thing. it is similar to selling a human. Like when the white settlers would sell african americans for hard labor. However, we could say its fair that the Native Americans captured people to get what they wanted. First of all the Natives were also abused and treated poorly. Second the white settlers took over a lot of the Native Americans land for Agriculture, and they also hunted most of the game that the Native Americans hunted to eat everyday. We can understand why they revolted because they obviously didn't want their land taken away. Native american families barely eating and a lot of them starving. Obviously everyone would be unhappy if some aliens come and took over the land and left the natives in a bad
I guess this just shows us that the Native Americans were upset for everything the white settlers did to them and their land. When they captured Rowlandson and the rest of the people the indians knew they were not going to kill them they just wanted to give the white settlers a little scare. They even wrote settlers to the white settlers letting them know that if provoked they will respond back. Some of the Native Americans learned to read and write in english to communicate with the white settlers. According to one of the primary sources two indians wrote a letter to Rowlandson husband in english. The letter talked about how the husbands family is doing good but one that died (Sam ET Al, letter to John Leverett 133). Before the Native Americans sent that leader the white settlers sent a letter to them that they are willing to negotiate as long as they get their people free (Letter to “Indian sagamore”). Basically this letter is showing us that the indians are trying to intimidate the english settlers so that the Native americans can have what they want by using white settlers as captives. When the the Native Americans raiding Lancaster they left the place destroyed. Many people were injured and some dead. House