Mary_Rowlandson

Mary Rowlandson The Sovereignty and Goodness of god, a narrative by Mary Rowlandson, is a first person account though the eyes of a Puritan woman. In this narrative, Rowlandson shows a bias against the Indians because of her Puritan background. She gives both physical and cultural descriptions of the Indians but to overcome death she must change her way of life and adapt to survive. The Puritans first made their way to the New World because of religious persecution which resulted in an “alienation” toward their country. Mary White was a good Puritan woman who had a first class reputation because she came from a wealthy economic background and had married a minister, John Rowlandson. Unfortunately, there was ever increasing tension between the new settlers and the Native Americans. There were two causes for war to breakout amongst these two sides. The first, results from the rapidly increasing number of settlers moving onto the land which the Indians currently occupied. Secondly, the English perceived the Indians as savage beasts and heathens, and they saw fit to convert them to the Puritan Faith. Before long, the war was brought to Mary’s home, where she and her children indians, mary, puritan, food, god, captives, because, rowlandson, english, pg, first, captivity, woman, faith, creatures, two, time, survive, settlers, provisions, praying, piece, one, native, narrative, keep, give, death, christian, beliefs, being, americans, wilderness, wild, way