Rowlandson’s Narrative

Mary - White 's family was one of the first settlers in Lancaster, Massachusetts, arriving in 1653. In 1656, Mary White married Lancaster 's first pastor, Joseph Laurensson. In 1675, King Philippe's war began to attack Indian settlements. On February 20, 1676 the Indians abducted Mary Rolanson during the attack on Lancaster. She was captured for 11 weeks and was finally redeemed for 20 pounds. After returning to Laurenson, she recorded a statement of imprisonment.

The story of Laurentson is also characterized by contradiction and tension, and sometimes seems to overturn the accepted Puritan ideal. Sometimes the need to live in the wilderness adapts to the native American culture which she believes is savage to work for her own survival, even though she patience and passively wait for God to lead her It makes it possible to do. And even if she preaches to obey God's will, she must express anger and resentment.

To provide readers with a basic understanding of Puritan, between British colonies and Native Americans. The story of Mary Rolandson concerns her survival experience with Native American, but this story will help to expose Puritan theology and Puritans to the Native American. Mary Rowlandson constantly quotes the Bible with her confinement story and praises God for helping her solve the problem more than the client (Morris, 2006). This happens when the customer talks. Narrative therapists seek relative impact in order to describe the impact of problems on their lives. These questions will evaluate how the problem affects the relationship between customers and others and causes problems in their lives. Next, I will ask another relative impact question. These are used to explain how people will influence.

Mary Rolandson's "Narration of imprisonment and recovery of captain Mary Rosenson" and Benjamin Franklin's "About the Barbarians of North America" ​​are based on two different perspectives of narrator's unique 'barbarian' experience. Benjamin Franklin's "About the Savage ..." is a way to compare the Indians and the British, why Franklin should not define Indians as barbarians - European settlers and Native American population As a child, We grew up in school and we learned that the first Thanksgiving and Pilgrims of Plymouth colony coexisted peacefully with the Wampanagu Indians.