A Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Ms. Mary Rowlandson

Question 1

When was it written?

Answer 1

1682

Question 2

Background info:

Answer 2

King Philips war 1675, a series of attacks on New England settlements to regain sovereignty over territory and stop colonial expansion

Question 3

Body count in natives and colonials:

Answer 3

3,000 natives, 600 colonials, 1200 houses burned

Question 4

Who is Mary Rowlandson

Answer 4

Wife of minister of Lancaster

Question 5

Quote #1

Answer 5

Aware that her children have died and wishes to die and she did. Devine intervention. An act of God. A good thing? Saved from further suffering? God is only good so anything that happens has to be good

Question 6

Quote #2

Answer 6

Turning her back on everything she knows, into the dark, lawlessness and devoid of morals where we are tested.

Question 7

Quote #3

Answer 7

God extended her a grape vine in the form of a bible. Out from the darkness.

Who gets credit? The mercy of the Indian that gave it to her, or god Devine?

Question 8

Affliction, I wanted, and affliction I had, full

Answer 8

Doctorine of affliction: god believes you should be in heaven but suffering will be apart. Desires the pain because their god, they have been taught, enriches you as a Devine being.