The intentional omission of colonist wrongdoing makes it easy for white America to disproportionately distribute empathy and judgement when reading such narratives.
Agreed!
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Despite being saved by the very people whose land he set out to invade, his narrative focuses on the savagery of his “melancholy and wretched captivity” (49).
The people saved him, but yet he complained of the captivity?
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As Moses said, “Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord” (Exodus 14.13).
After her experience, she's still thanking God. Religion sure does resound within people who have faith, huh?
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Our family being now gathered together (those of us that were living), the South Church in Boston hired an house for us.
What about the others who had perished? Is she taking pity for them? Or just her experience?
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Yet I was not without sorrow, to think how many were looking and longing, and my own children amongst the rest, to enjoy that deliverance that I had now received, and I did not know whether ever I should see them again.
She felt sorrow for others? How can she have a change of heart?
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strangely did the Lord provide for them; that I did not see (all the time I was among them) one man, woman, or child, die with hunger.
She's blaming the Lord for letting the Natives survive? WHAT? This makes no sense to me. Sure, she'd want to see them suffer for the great deal of pain they've caused her, but still.
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God had an over-ruling hand in all those things.
Is this right? Why is God the supreme ruler of things?
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Then also I took my Bible to read, but I found no comfort here neither, which many times I was wont to find. So easy a thing it is with God to dry up the streams of Scripture comfort from us.
Is she saying that she's finally giving up her belief of God? Or her faith is waning? An interesting thing to look at, considering how much she's been through.
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I should suddenly leap up and run out, as if I had been at home, forgetting where I was,
This longing makes me empathize with her, and it's interesting to hear her emotions throughout the story.
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Instead of going toward the Bay, which was that I desired, I must go with them five or six miles down the river into a mighty thicket of brush;
Self-empathetic narrative of how she wants to go in a different direction yet she's being held as a hostage, it's not like she has the choice. Perhaps the Natives have something else in mind?
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that it would be no matter if my head were off too.
A big connotation. They offered her kindness but perhaps she overextended the kindness?
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Then one of the company drew his sword, and told me he would run me through if I did not go presently.
Who was the company? Was it another tribe perhaps? What does 'run me through' mean?
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This morning I asked my master whether he would sell me to my husband.
I thought her husband had passed away?
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I boiled my peas and bear together, and invited my master and mistress to dinner; but the proud gossip, because I served them both in one dish, would eat nothing, except one bit that he gave her upon the point of his knife.
She's endured all this hardship from her master and mistress and yet she invites them to dinner with what little she has?
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and I fell aweeping, which was the first time to my remembrance, that I wept before them.
After all, why weep for the enemy? This just goes to show that all the punishment / torture was just too much. There's only so much a person can take, after all.
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my son Joseph
I thought she only had one child?? The child who had passed away from sickness?
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let me rest, and told them I would do as much more tomorrow; to which they answered me they would break my face.
She's tired, on the edge of starvation, and they won't allow her to rest? There's something wrong with this equation. I feel the need to do more background research.
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I carried only my knitting work and two quarts of parched meal.
She's injured but yet she's able to knit? I don't recall her mentioning knitting in the other removes.
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His blessed will, some sign and hope of some relief.
Just goes to show how important religion was to people back in the day.
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It
Why is she referring to her child as an 'it' ?
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“your master will knock your child in the head,”
What does this mean?
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how careless I had been of God’s holy time;
She's injured, and yet she has time to think of how she hasn't prayed to God?
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like inhumane creatures, laughed, and rejoiced to see it,
Here we can see again how the situation has switched.
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but God was with me in a wonderful manner, carrying me along, and bearing up my spirit, that it did not quite fail.
God was with her? Interesting to see her trying to keep optimistic / hopeful despite the death of her husband and her injuries.
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were slain and mangled in a barbarous manner, by one-eyed John, and Marlborough’s Praying Indians
We've seen the contrast of Englishmen doing this to the Natives, but now that it's switched the Natives are the bad guys?
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my husband gone
What happened to her husband?
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“What, will you love English men still?”
What is this supposed to mean exactly?
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In our blog posts and our headnotes we tried our very best to be original, provoke thought, and even weave some comedy and sass in there.
Sometimes comedy and sass is the best way to go to capture a person's attention.
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American literature is ever-changing.
Just like the world and times, literature is changing, and I couldn't agree more.
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How can we possibly define American literature without comprehending the fragility, complexity, and pride that accompanies such a term?
Hence why we're taking this class! Will we ever be able to come up with an exact definition, or will we ever be fully able to comprehend the literature?
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It provides insight into what has happened in the past, while also giving students the tools to think critically about what’s happening within the field of American literature in the present.
By being able to analyze written works from the past, we're able to learn more about American literature in general, to gain a deeper understanding of the written works.
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In our global era, it is clear that past definitions of American literature must be revisited.
I agree with this statement! American literature should be revisited and analyzed so we can have a better grasp and understanding of what it entails.
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