A Narrative Of The Captivity By Mary Rowlandson Summary
Cristina Villegas
Mary Rowlandson Analytical Paragraph
In A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Mary 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 benefit from:
“I offered the money to my master, but he bade me keep it; and with it I bought a piece of horse flesh. Afterwards, he asked me to make a cap for his boy, for which he invited me to dinner. I went, and he gave me a pancake, about as big as two fingers. It was made of parched wheat, beaten, and fried in bear’s grease, but I thought I never tasted pleasanter meat in my life.…I boiled my peas together, and invited my master and mistress to dinner…” (Eight Remove) …show more content…
She then goes one step further by treating them as her equal. Just as her master invited her for dinner, she does the same in return with the little resources she has. She has begun to respect them for the fairness they are now treating her with, and is acting as if they were her own Puritan neighbors. These experiences are narrated in a retrospective sense that implies she became a more grateful person, and she even goes on and attributes her religious and moral awakening to these happenings with the Indians. When Rowlandson is having dinner and conversing with an Indian about her relations with her master, she speaks highly of
Mary Rowlandson Analytical Paragraph
In A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Mary 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 benefit from:
“I offered the money to my master, but he bade me keep it; and with it I bought a piece of horse flesh. Afterwards, he asked me to make a cap for his boy, for which he invited me to dinner. I went, and he gave me a pancake, about as big as two fingers. It was made of parched wheat, beaten, and fried in bear’s grease, but I thought I never tasted pleasanter meat in my life.…I boiled my peas together, and invited my master and mistress to dinner…” (Eight Remove) …show more content…
She then goes one step further by treating them as her equal. Just as her master invited her for dinner, she does the same in return with the little resources she has. She has begun to respect them for the fairness they are now treating her with, and is acting as if they were her own Puritan neighbors. These experiences are narrated in a retrospective sense that implies she became a more grateful person, and she even goes on and attributes her religious and moral awakening to these happenings with the Indians. When Rowlandson is having dinner and conversing with an Indian about her relations with her master, she speaks highly of