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    Cristina Villegas Mary Rowlandson Analytical Paragraph In A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary RowlandsonMary Rowlandson‚ a Puritan woman‚ deplores her captors entirely at first‚ but in retrospect‚ she develops a liking for them‚ and treats them with neighborly respect as well as appreciation for their generosity. While Mary Rowlandson and the Indians were visiting King Philip‚ Rowlandson develops amicable relations with some of her captors‚ in which both her and the Indians

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    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

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    The writings of both authors‚ William Bradford and Olaudah Equiano‚ are very important‚ because they show us first and accounts of their ideas and horrors. In the story Of Plymouth Plantation‚ William Bradford showed how Puritans could overcome obstacles in many quotes in this story. "Being thus arrived in good harbor‚ and brought safe to land‚ they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who brought them over the vast and furious ocean‚ and delivered them from all the perils and miseries

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    Mary Rowlandson explains her experiences using a first person voice. She goes through her experiences both telling what happened and also explaining what was going on in her mind. The reading was depressing as Rowlandson describes what she and her family went through after being taken from their home. I feel as if Rowlandson may have exaggerated with how some things played out‚ or the optimist inside of me wants to believe that she did. It is hard to read some of the text‚ because it is saddening

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    Olaudah Equiano in his Interesting Narrative is taken from his African home and thrown into a Western world completely foreign to him. Equiano is a slave for a total of ten years and endeavors to take on certain traits and customs of Western thinking. He takes great pains to improve himself‚ learn religion‚ and adopt Western mercantilism. However‚ Equiano holds on to a great deal of his African heritage. Throughout the narrative‚ the author keeps his African innocence and purity of intent; two

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    If you know of great abolitionists‚ you may know of the names Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano. These two men went beyond the odds‚ becoming famous writers even through slavery’s drastic conditions. Looking at their narratives‚ “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚” and “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚ or Gustavus Vassa‚ the African‚” we learn how each of them were brought up through the pains of American Slavery. Frederick Douglass was born a slave and a master

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    History\ XXXXX [ 30 September 2011 Equiano Response The book‚ The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚ or Gustavus Vassa‚ the African‚ is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano‚ a male African slave during the eighteenth century‚ which discusses his time spent in slavery‚ his Christian faith‚ and his accomplishment of buying his own freedom. However‚ the thing that I found most interesting about the reading was the incident when Pascal sold Equiano to Captain James Dorn. I found this

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    Both The Hungry Tide and The Interesting Narrative Of Olaudah Equiano are tales of sociological hardships combined with a life bound to the sea. The ocean plays a significant role in the text offering disempowerment to some whilst empowering others. In The Interesting Narrative the slave trade was in full swing and a capitalist attitude heavily dominates the text‚ whilst in The Hungry Tide capitalism plays a smaller role and the humanitarian backdrop of the story is a more central theme. In this

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    1. What does Mary Rowlandson’s work lead the reader to believe about the Natives? Be descriptive (words‚ tone‚ etc.).  Her very descriptive use of language to describe what she witnessed was very good.  She convinced me that the Indians were uncivilized‚ ferocious and brutal in their attack.  She conveyed that they were also strategic‚ as she describes how they came in a large group and not only climbed on rooftops‚ but surrounded the house so as not to allow anyone inside to escape.  She was very

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    The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Mary Rowlandson was a puritan woman from Massachusetts in the colonial times of America‚ which were known as the British colonies. During her time‚ a war occurred which was called Metacom’s War or King Philip’s War. Rowlandson was captured by the Wampanoag Indians that attacked her town of Lancaster. She wrote a story about what happened to her during her time being imprisoned‚ the book she wrote is called The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. In the story she

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