Emily Rowlandson's Narrative Analysis

Imagining the boundaries of the human soul, it is crazy to think the pain one person must endure. Other than the ghastly images that Rowlandson characterized throughout the narrative, what I found most fascinating was the twentieth remove where she summarizes her situation of the past several months. The final remove is what stood out to me and I think is the most important because it emphasizes her undying hope and belief towards God. After all the hardships she went through, she still kept her faith in god and that commitment of her towards God above all other things was what amazed me. Not only was the twentieth remove fascinating, it was disturbing in most ways. In the beginning of twentieth remove Rowlandson states, “They would say now