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    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

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    Mary Rowlandson” captures her reader’s attention as she describes being taken by the natives and how she was thankful that God had given her the courage and strength to keep going during those difficult times. In her narratives she confesses‚ “ I remember in

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    American Lit 26 February 2015 For God or Merit: An Analysis of Mary Rowlandson’s Intentions Concerning the Narration and Publication of Her Captivity and Restoration: Around the time of the late 1600’s‚ it was extremely uncommon that an individual would encounter a professionally published piece of work written by a woman‚ let alone one that achieved notable fame. Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson was one of the first to break that mold by advertising itself

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    Mary Rowlandson‚ a Puritan woman with a strong religious ethic was captured by the Indians or as she describes them “savages” during the King Phillips war. Mary was faced with severe amount of pain and suffering and was held hostage and stripped away from her basic necessities. Her children were also captured and separated from her‚ sold or bought by other Indians. Throughout her narrative “The Sovereignty and goodness of God” Mary dealt with unremarkable sufferings however‚ she remained sanguine

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    Mary Rowlandson: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration In exploring‚ the captivity of a puritan woman on the tenth of February 1675‚ by the Indians with great rage and numbers‚ Mary Rowlandson will portray many different views of the Indians in her recollected Narrative. Starting off with a savage view of ruthless Indian violence‚ and then after seeing the light of God in delivery of a Bible by an Indian warrior returning from the demise of a near puritan fight‚ Concluding with the friendly

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    is painting that speaks"‚ this relates to the poem A Letter from Phillis Wheatley by Robert Hayden through his abstract approach of using the character Wheatley as the speaker. The role of Wheatley is vital to the poems point of view‚ by using Wheatley he demonstrates the view of an enslaved African American who is also is the first African American poet to be published (O’Neale). In Hayden’s technique‚ he uses the character Wheatley as a spokesman‚ this point of view places emphasis on the literature

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    Smith and Mary Rowlandson‚ whose stories are very different due to their captors‚ gender‚ and religion. James Smith was 18 years old when he was captured by the Indians just miles above Bedford. Smith was captured by three Indians‚ one was a Canasatauga and the two others were Delawares. With the exception of being flogged‚ Smith’s experiences with the Indians were not

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    and resources dwindled before them. Mary Rowlandson‚ a famous victim of these Indian attacks‚ recounts her eleven-week captivity in her published book‚ A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. The book describes her experience as a captive of the Wampanoags in great detail‚ and combines high adventure‚ heroism‚ and exemplary piety‚ which made it a popular piece in the seventeenth century. Throughout the narrative Mary Rowlandson portrays her skills as a writer with

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    The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson reveals that the ghastly depiction of the Indian religion (or what Rowlandson perceives as a lack of religion) in the narrative is directly related to the ideologies of her Puritan upbringing. Furthermore‚ Rowlandson’s experiences in captivity and encounter with the new‚ or "Other" religion of the Indians cause her rethink‚ and question her past; her experiences do not however cause her to redirect her life or change her ideals

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    Mary Rowlandson. For the reason that her story shows how just how dangerous it was to live in the New World during 1675‚ with new settlements and raids from the natives. The first part of her writings is about the raid from the natives on Lancaster and how they

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