The_Sovereignty_And_Goodness_Of_God

The Sovereignty And Goodness Of God Throughout Mary Rowlandson’s narrative, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, we receive a glimpse of what captivity among the Indians is like. Rowlandson’s personal account is from a Puritan’s point of view about Native Americans beginning in February of 1675. While reading this narrative, one must understand that the Native Americans were treated as bad if not worse than Mary Rowlandson herself. To get a true understanding, one must be aware of both sides of the story. Rowlandson’s faith remained the primary basis of how she dealt with most problems and her attitude towards the Indians. Even before her capture, Rowlandson saw “the causeless enmity of these Barbarians, against the English, and the malicious and revengefull spirit of these Heathen” (64). She perceived the Indians as “murtherous wretches”, “merciless Heathen”, and “Infidels” (68-69). As a woman of the Lord, she did not like all the battling, and the sight of murder was frightening. She dreaded the day they would invade her community. They came that “dreadfull hour,” and all the stories she had heard from others about invasion became a reality (69). Before she was actually captured, she always said she rowlandson, indians, rowlandson’s, one, lord, god, remove, faith, believe, very, towards, time, philip, during, captivity, before, said, indian, go, first, because, after, woman, true, now, king, gave, daughter, christian, child, captured, bible, being, been, although