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Mary Rowlandson's Narrative
QUESTIONS ON MARY ROWLANDSON’S INDIAN CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE

Why does Rowlandson emphasize that her narrative “was written by her own hand for her private use”? (1st paragraph)Because she was a prisioner taken by indians and she decided to write this text in order to make known her story and all the events, all write by her, because there was other captivity narratives about this written by other authors. Why did she intend her narrative for “the benefit of the afflicted”? (1st paragraph)she wanted to show the sovereignty and godness of god to the benefit of the afflicted, for the people who suffered this cruelty and it could be a lesson, a didactic text to the rest of people.Affliction to her is like the puritan attitude towrds suffering,
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