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rowlandson
Molly Smith
Mrs. Fortier november 7, 2013
English

mrs. Rowlandsons

introduction: mrs. rowlandson was taken by the indians

attention grabbing beginning:

she was taken from her children in her home.

background information:

God is the major part in her life.

major ideas:

she has faith in god to help her get threw things.

her child got wounded and so did she, her child died while they were in captivity. she believed god was with her to get threw the horrible times. she wanted to teach to everyone to have faith in god.

main ideas: she has trust in god, she did not give up on anything threw the captivity. she thinks she was sent for this captivity.

thesis statement:

mary rowlandson believed that god sent her to the captivity, so she could talk to people about how god is there for everyone no matter what it is.

Body paragraph #1

Topic sentence: god is everywhere

Passage: god was with me in a wonderful manner carrying me along and barring up my spirit.

Key words:

wonderful- extremely good, means excellent, not bad. bearing- a persons way of standing or moving, means how someones posture is carrying- support or move from place to place, means to pick up something

when and why:

Mrs. Rowlandson believes God was with her threw everything because while she was wounded her baby was to and she had to carry her baby for miles by herself, God helped her threw it.

Concluding sentence: God is with us everywhere looking over us.

Body paragraph #2

Topic sentence: the struggles

How does this passage reflect/support her main idea and her purpose for writing this: this passage reflected her main idea and her purpose for writing this because the

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