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In three pages this paper examines how religion plays the role of Mary Rowlandson’s teacher in a discussion of her seventeenth-century narrative about her time as a Native American captive during King Philip’s War of 1676. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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that she was a devout Puritan who was the wife of Reverend Joseph Rowlandson, with whom she had two daughters and a son. Her existence as an ordinary New
England housewife was transformed into an extraordinary tale for survival when she and her family were taken captive by Native Americans during what has become known as King Philips War.
Marys chronicle of her harrowing experiences in captivity, which included the deaths of her baby daughter Sarah and several other friends and family members is featured in one of
the earliest texts written by a woman in America, "The Sovereignty and the Goodness of God: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson." During her
nearly three-month ordeal that is subdivided into twenty removes in the narrative, she describes a journey that is both physical and metaphysical. It reveals the role of religion in
her life as that of teacher, providing her with oftentimes-brutal life lessons that imbue her with a deeper understanding of Gods wisdom. There is no doubt that Mary Rowlandson is
well versed in both Old and New Testaments. Throughout her narrative, she quotes frequently from the scriptures, providing both book and line numbers. However, early on, they read
more like a church sermon that Mary had been conditioned to recite from early childhood. In the third remove, she observed of her Native American captors, "Oh the number
of pagans (now merciless enemies) that there came about me, that I may say as David, I had fainted, unless I had believed, etc (Psalm 27.13)" (Rowlandson 302). It
is as if she is struggling to apply her biblical indoctrination to her situation as a way of understanding what she regards as the senseless attacks by savages upon peaceful,
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