Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 5 page research paper/essay that discusses these 2 tests. John Demos, in The Unredeemed Captive, and James K. Martin, in Original Courage, each draw upon original memoirs from early American history that recount specific periods, and offering readers insight into the perspectives of individuals who lived during the colonial era. While the events of the two books are separated by only 75 years, the worldview of the main characters is vastly different, which offers insight for the modern reader into the sociological paradigms of the eras involved. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_khdemmar.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
recount specific periods, and offering readers insight into the perspectives of individuals who lived during the colonial era. While the events of the two books are separated by only 75
years, the worldview of the main characters is vastly different, which offers insight for the modern reader into the sociological paradigms of the eras involved. Demos, drawing on the
memoirs of John Williams, a Puritan minister, and then later the diary of Williams son Stephen, who was also a Puritan minister, relates the story of the abduction of Williams
and his family by Indians, who raided the village of Deerfield, Massachusetts. They were eventually liberated from this captivity, but his daughter Eunice chose to stay with the Kahnawakes, assimilating
into their culture so thoroughly that she lost her command of the English language. The raid on Deerfield resulted in the war party taking 112 captives who were then forced
marched for eight weeks into the hinterlands of Canada. They were cold, afraid and rarely fed. Demos relies on John Williams diaries for much of the detail that is related.
Williams writes that his wife "fell down and was plunged over head and ears in the water...the cruel and bloodthirsty savage who took her slew her with his hatchet at
one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin to negotiate a ransom for their return. Demos
hypothesizes that Williams, as a prominent citizen, might have been taken specifically in order to give the Indians, and their allies, the French, in negotiating for the release of a
Frenchman who was being held by the English. Williams is returned to New England after two years with two of his children. Two more are eventually returned, but Eunice, taken
...