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  • Essay / Mary Rowlandson's Reflection - 1575

    For now, Rowlandson has only her faith and her youngest daughter to cling to, but soon after, an injured Sarah ends up dying in captivity. Rowlandson is baffled by this. As you can imagine, this only adds to the growing hatred she feels as she is forced to live day to day, always on the move with these "heathens". Rolandson is sold to another Indian while they are in an Indian colony called Wenimesset. While she is there, the Native Americans are kind enough to bury Sarah, which revives Rowlandson. Even though the Indians were the ultimate cause of Sarah's death, they were still human enough to give her a proper burial. In addition to this, Sarah is allowed to visit Mary, her eldest daughter, also detained in Wenimesset. His eldest son, Joesph, was allowed to visit him from another Indian colony nearby. These kind acts of the Native Americans begin to show Rowlandson another side of the people that she had never seen before. It was an aspect that, under better circumstances, would almost make Rowlandson believe that Native Americans were not so much "heathens" but simply different people with different views on life trying to survive in the same world. His religious views and the recent loss of his family still make it difficult, otherwise