A Captivity Narrative - Mary Rowlandson

Mary Rowlandson recounts her experience as a captive of the Wampanoag folks. The tribe took captives from Lancaster in 1676 beca wasting disease of the ongoing barbaric altercations between the English colonists and innate Americans during King Philips War.1 Since more of the homegrown Americans brethren had move in battle, they truism it fit to take English folk captive and use them to take the place of their fallen brethren, trading/ransom pieces, or killing them in revenge.2 This was bonny a common bore for the Native Americans to attack villages and in result, some English started fleeing the neighborhood or started to retaliate. Rowlandson was a puritan wife and mother, in her storey she describes the invasion of her town and how the Indians look for to reclaim their land. She is one of the hardly a(prenominal) who survive the ordeal because many ar killed in the invasion, she describes the Indians as savages. Those who try to escape ar shown no mercy, one mat ch who is caught pleads for grace and even goes to the finish to offer money in exchange for his life nevertheless the Indians simply knock him in the notch  and proceed to pull down him of his belongings. She describes her journey as she travels with the Indians, she recounts the horrors she sees, either enemy the Indians encounter are usually knocked on the head and disemboweled. Being a warm Puritan woman, Rowlandson believes that all the events are part of Gods divine plan, existence a puritan, she is one of Gods predestined people and the events are Gods agency of testing her faith. This narrative shows her steady commitment to Christianity. Without her strong faith, her talents and view she would have never survived her trials and tribulation. passim the whole narrative Rowlandson relies on God to sustain her spiritually and physically. God displays his protective powers in various ways. She is shown to be in despair numerous times. So many things happen that cor roborate chipping away at her spirit. The Indians com...