More comfortable here. Showing boldness and sass.

And like stealing I imagine and then praising God for it. I understand do what you need to survive, but while knowing your own children are out there suffering as well?

Stealing from children is crazy. Did the child give it to her because they could not eat it or did she take it?

At least they tried it, unlike her when she was first presented with horse meat. Valid in some sense though I would be freaked out by horse meat, but I also don’t really eat it anyway

The food or the culture of them cooking. Probably just the food

stay longer than expected

So is the entire family in captivity except her husband (the women and children)

So they all just kind of accept and let each other stay in every town. It’s not like separate tribes have to stay away

Experiencing what so many Natives probably had to see when they saw their people dead.

Oh wow, okay then

Is she only carrying her own items or is she carrying others as well?

Good to not jump to conclusions with so many narratives. Crazy to call them barbarians because they lied (they’re her captors, they COULDVE killed her instead of lying)

Where she wanted to go

To see someone she can relate to to ground herself and no feel so alone (white and a captive)

How many Natives were killed because of this

Animal trait

Okay she’s still pulling verses from everywhere so I would say her faith still grows strong, she’s just mad at God sometimes. But not losing faith

Religion crisis? Is she realizing that God can not take over her life to save her? Is she still believing in God to help her? What is it?

When does doubt take over, does it?

So religion is giving her a reality check. She was forgetting her condition and just living in the moment and surviving with what she had, not dwelling on the past. How bad or good is that?

I would guess she threw the ashes because Mary was trying to change and potentially ruin (i don’t know what it was like) the fire and was being selfish especially as a captive.

Even if i thought someone was lying about that I feel like I would still be grieving because I don’t actually have any proof of them lying. Also the generalization of ALL of them being liars is wild.

Okay WHAt is this. I’m guessing he is lying, tormenting her…? Cause I don’t think I’ve read about the native people eating other humans…. Unless this is new. Obviously terrible to here as a mother in the first place though

Once again she’s basically trading with them and is using her skills (sewing/making clothes) to her advantage to survive

In any world would a captive have any authority over where they would go? Maybe she is just saying this because it’s showing how she was always in like discomfort but still….

She always wants pity and praise and if she doesn’t get it, she throws a fit and makes the Natives look evil

SO even though it was the Native people who once again gave her food and shelter, she’s giving God the credit and not the kindness of the native people

How many people fit in a wigwam

What’s a Friend Indian and I’m guessing it’s important because of the title being capitalized

Ohhh it was called Boston then too

What place are we calling home?

who are they having company that they can’t have their captive white woman present. Is it just like common courtesy or are they hiding her

Like the other two pieces we read, hunger is huge

An Indian best friend?// ish. Wow we’ve moved up in our opinions

She was impatient about having to turn around but reminded herself that her God had a plan and to calm her soul. I guess

Is she ACTUALLY confirmed going home or is this just her hoping still

Being rude and showing a lack of respect

Wow okay what an annoying woman. They helped you in the past when you were weak, yes, but that doesn’t mean everything is handed to you, white woman. It’s your own stuff, deal with it

What does she even own during captivity is it anything besides like her bible?

Why is there all of a sudden a rejection of her religion? Are they just now noticing it or did she hide it before?

I thought this meant bag but I guess it can also mean a child. Language has many meanings.

What is Nux and why is it good, or at least I’m guessing?

Would her kids be coming? Probably not? Really shows how women are treated during this time. Just objects to own and use as financial advantage

I always forget what sabbath day is and that it’s weekly and I get so lost why it’s mentioned so often

At some points it seems like she is at ease with her situation, at some points she is disgusted. Very back and forth forth emotionally

For powder? What is that

because hunger is a problem

It has shown so far that they are not against their religion, is there something that has not been shown which causes him to hide his prayer? Different groups of Natives = different ideas? Again, how reliable is Mary as a narrator

Wonder how bear tastes. I don’t like eating meat but like you never really hear that

Again, adapting to their food, in contrast to when she refused to even try their meat. She’s basically trading here, services for food.

Is Pagan meaning the same thing that I might currently think of in this text? Why is she SO amazed, is it good or bad?

She’s finally accustomed to their food, buying horse meat on purpose. Nice of her master to allow her to keep the shilling. She sees them as heartless, but never looks deeper.

Still seems kind of offensive but doesn’t seem as harsh as a previous description she created. Maybe she is getting used to it and not seeing it as crazy and barbaric

Whether she would smoke “it”???? This is like that whole baby IT thing, what is it, tobacco or something else

Assumption vs reality. Don’t assume the worst and you may be helped. Assume the worst and you may be pleasantly surprised.

Why is she crying only now in front of them? Finally too much to bear? Must be a significance in it being NOW and now when her child died, being hurt, or any other moment in her captivity

She’s seeing the human (in her view) in them

Preserving in the wilderness (with the Natives) and believing he will eventually bring them back to safety (English men)

You always leave the world the way you come into the world?

This life vs past life vs future life?

Reading something like this is sometimes so difficult because I know very little religious references so before I saw the bible quote and guessed what it was, I was very confused when I saw the word “job”

Oh hello Joseph? Where is he coming from and is he “free”

Not just business work related, but still similar as it being a group of people with a purpose

Where does Boy Scouts come from

Is she going alone or with people? If she is alone what is stopping her from leaving? Not knowing her surroundings?

what interesting sentence structure here

They’re meeting with King Philip like in person???/

Connecticut lowkey sucks. Anyway this is like in the winter and in New England so how did that hold

Didn’t she literally have an out or was that for the other woman. Why does she want it now

Is this to cover their tracks, or for a purpose, a sign, symbolism?

Women or wives.

What is this (bags according to another annotation)

They will not recognize the Sabbath day. They respect her in her having personal religious beliefs, but they will not spare her a day solely for religion. She has work to do.

Beggars can’t be choosers girl, eat up if you want to survive.

Probably because she thinks she’s better than whatever food they’re eating?

Filthy trash???? Wow dude way to shame their customs. Like at least you are being offered food? Not completely starving you?

Boiled… OLD horses leg,… wow what a meal. I mean whatever gets you nutrients.

I think this is the first time she acknowledges all of them as one unit instead of “me” and “them”

Yeah was the river or whatever body of water it is not partially frozen? No ice?

So she feels it kind of puts her above the others who did get their feet we

The Natives help her but still no food or little food. Very strict on this part.

So even as a captive she was spared the burden of carrying a heavy load during their move. Even as injured I wouldn’t think such kindness

I’m guessing this means like great OLD indian

All for one and one for all or whatever they say. They all care for each other and help each other

Determined to get out of there

Who is Jehu

To hold in play? Is this really meaning in like a playful non serious way? Just temporary. Anyways, why must the rest escape, danger I’m assuming? where do they go/

Big strong and protective

At least we know why they’re on the move

Ok What does waiting on the Lord get them right now. She has a chance to leave, right? Is this not “god” giving her an out

What entertainment did they have? The Natives? The bible?

To leave captivity? Why would she say no

Harsh way to say pregnant

What were they using these captives for/??? Fun? Work? Other duties..?

So is she finding comfort in believing that eventually everything bad that the Natives were imposing on her would be turned back on them?

Sadness?

That was very kind of this man

A physical manifestation of her hopes and prayers during hardship. Gives her something physical to hold on to and put her faith into. I would imagine this makes it easier for her faith during this time.

Hideous insulting (bad and negative) versus triumphing (typically good and positive)

How does the earth ring

Does she consider it a home? What makes a home

I’m guessing this was houses? 23 houses burnt? Burning homes would certainly be a big roar.

And what would this action DO in this society? also, a plantation?

The dame is not only under the master and has her own free will to act. She is thankful basically too.

So the girls name was Sarah?

How did he know how and where to find her? How did this separation of family and death of a sibling effect the other two children?

Showing how important religion was/is to some people especially in hardships

Must be such a heartbreaking and powerless feeling as a mother

And where is the third one? Did they run away?

So they could see each other but the Natives would not let the mother comfort her crying daughter? Cruel there

So although they had “little liberty” to see each other, I mean I guess it’s shocking to me that hey could see each other at all and that hey knew where they both were.

What is a praying Indian(?) and wow she was sold for a gun??

Honestly, okay, compassion there. They buried the body, not just leaving it somewhere.

Still always with the “it” when talking about her own child

Wow no sympathy? They made her abandon her child’s lifeless body?

Oh wow did Native Americans also sell white people? I did not know that honestly if this is all true

Master? What does this mean/

She wanted to kill herself basically, but remained strong within even after her baby died, and says God is the reason why. Strong of her to still find reason in life, even if it is just God. Also, I wonder now, what was the child’s name? Why did we not learn it? Too hard to say or was it more normal to only say “babe?”

Becomes used to death. and also, i mean, it is her own child so.

Her baby is the picture of death. Devastating. How old was the child?

Maybe but also are they attempting to help again? In their own way

How hard it must be to see your child basically ready to die

Not to like undermine her emotions but honestly if you are captive what can you expect from your captors? Harshness I would think.

Hitting her? Is this an empty threat, it seems to just repeat?What does this even really mean, harsh….

So the baby is a her

So the Natives healed him but she still credits God?

How was she having visitors

It’s sad that she believes that if she prayed more(?) she would not have been thrown into this by God and that she holds guilt that God abandoned her

So basically I guess she didn’t pray to God and now she is all upset about it. How far into “hell” and suffering can one go without questioning? God can do no wrong. Natives are never under God and are therefore evil creations of …. The devil? satan? How does it work

okay is it bad I don’t know what “the Sabbath” is? I’ll look it up I guess

Pagans already and still an enemy…..

What is “Viz” and where is it?????

In another text we read, the white men claimed that the Natives did not use time. This is more proof that they have their own way to keep track of time.

Starvation is basically a form of torture

What is the baby even sick with? Does it have a physical wound? Like a cut or something or is the cold hurting it

OK at least they’re helping you

Do they actually care and how? They can see that she is weak and could not travel on her own with the baby.

What journey are we even taking

So we still can’t use names or anything. I’m assuming this means the Natives?

Is she ever doubting God? Or just pouring her full being into it.

Even if you had a Christian friend nearby I don’t know if they could help you, maybe comfort you, but I don’t know about help. She’s heavily dropping her emotions her and the waterfall of everything effecting her mental state and physical state.

Wait, what month was this again, February ish? How much snow are we talking and how were they protected against it (clothing wise)

She still believes that it is the Lord giving her all of this strength instead of her own internal will. And maybe she draws this internal will (unknowingly that it is herself) from her belief that the lord is real, so in one case it’s her lord, but also herself.

She still sees and labels them as inhumane creatures even though they helped her. They carried her baby and once she was too weak, they put her on the horses back which they definitely did not need to do. Yes, they laughed when she fell off, but maybe they didn’t expect it because it was normalized to ride a horse without a seat? Also, she’s still technically their prisoner. I wonder what they are thinking truly? I feel like even if my best friend were riding a horse if they fell off, after I knew they were okay, I’d be laughing too. Maybe that’s modern norms shining, but I wouldn’t say they were inhumane for that. But to be fair, I also get embarrassed easily and it feels like the end of the world if it’s REAL embarrassing

Holy negative thoughts……

Is it because it is a baby? Has done no right or wrong? They accept that fact and help it.

Religion gives her a reason to live, a light in the darkness, “sparing” her

Vast and desolate to her, but did the Natives know it? Even if it is unknown to one person does not mean it is unknown to all, especially the native people of a land.

How did they communicate, did they not have a language barrier? In other ways, what forms of communication were used?

Did they DO something? For every “white man” killed, how many natives followed?

Harsh words, what actions caused this?

“It’ being used in reference to a child, maybe her child? I think at least, from he introduction about who she was, I think she had a young child with her.

Even for whatever reason the Natives may have done this, it’s definitely hard to have all of your family and home life taken away from you, being alone, especially in hardship.

So many different words for “sad”

Extremely sad, hopeless, and impossible to cheer up. Food and hunger are definitely used against people and show a huge piece of a human’s drive.

Lively vs hell (dead) use of words in contrast in this comparison

Do we mean shadow? Skin color? Metaphor to a dark “evil” soul?

Wow yes because singing and dancing is so evil…. Maybe it was scary to a culture that did not express life in that way, but wow…

Very sad or mournful

IS this really what they asked? How reliable of a narrator is Mary?What does this question mean when asked by the Natives? If she takes refuge in the lodge, will she still love English men?

This is an interesting way to say it…? Still not 100% sure I am getting what she’s saying here.

Is this “we” her and her family or even more people that were captured and taken to this part of town intended to “lodge’

I think this is an interesting quote and it shows the profound trauma she endured and how her heart is not feeling much and is just an extension of the bod.

Something must have provoked this action and violence, right? OR?

Very harsh label, I’m already assuming for the Native Americans? Contrast to our other reading when the Christians were being called barbarians or a word similar to that sort.

She was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans in 1676 during King Philip’s War. Her family suffered a lot. She suffered.

Why do we find it important to be publicly acknowledged?

How do people globally view American literature? Do they even think about it as we do with, say, British Literature?

Keep it interactive and fun, engaging, but also serious enough to learn.

I agree. Everything changes and you can never keep one thing from blossoming.

Education should be free..?..

How do you minimize such a broad category into one space

As meanings change, PSU students can change it as well. It is left to students to decide what is valued and what’s worth being in the project.

Good to state and understand that it is not perfect. What would a theoretical “perfect” representation be?

You have to get into the dirty deep questions in order to understand a small fraction of a difficult question involving America

Continent vs USA

It takes modern age concepts from films and other references as stated and compares them to the old literature

Let’s get diversity up in here!

How does this make it unique, what does it help in other students?

Never ending cycle of constantly having to reframe new ways to fit the current age of time as it moves forward.

I think that every person may have a different idea of what counts and so therefore is there really a flat answer for this?

Challenging us readers. Also, American Lit. Vs. History, how does an english class differ from a history class?

Which ends up being what? We look at whether author, location, consumer, as well as a multitude of other factors to see if that changes what counts

Curiosity is a sin, leads to punishment and downfall, “destroyed” is a strong word.

Not all of Man though, just the Natives? Right……..?

Moral of this story and myth. Keep to yourself, don’t push others or you will get yourself hurt.

What happened in the end, did she take her son, did she/they die? Is this a punishment for the people or herself? Did she experience loneliness once again, what’s the price to pay to have company?

Honestly valid. Like I get that the people kept asking and asking questions and wanting more food and she did not want her son to be taken advantage of. But still, this is a big punishment for being curious. Huge mother-son relationship being shown.

She thinks that her son is too good and obviously the son of the great powerful mountain by his looks.

Over what? What makes a nation worthy of this? Someone who doesn’t question authority or higher ups?

Too good for the world and heir poking questions. They can’t accept the good

They were basically ordered to keep questions to themselves, but curiosity killed the cat, and they struggle to refrain from wondering and asking about the boy.

What makes it important that no one should question who is the father of the child? What gives who power? Is the boy a gift to help grow a society

In what way did they ant to ‘make a mighty race,’ Is it in a similar way that Europeans wanted to rise up?

Personification of the mountains.

Blessing in the sense that him and his mother have plenty of food, but a curse in the sense that anything he points at will die. I wonder how he discovered this.

Okay where did the boy actually come from? What’s his origin? Is he a real person?

She became married, but sill desired her own people. She was lonely in the marriage to Katahdin.

Stone, as in a “stern” look or stone referring to a big mountain of stone and rock

Why three years specifically? What occurred in those years and what brought her back down to be seen again?