When I read the narrative of Mary Rowlandson I first thought about all of the details that she must have had to leave out. Rowlandson went through an event that no one in our day and age can even imagine, this fact can explain why some of her situations seemed hard for us to understand. We talked in class about whether or not Rowlandson exaggerated any of the events that happened to her. I thought about this a lot and I think that she did not exaggerated but rather recalled the events as she remembered them. When anyone is put in a life changing situation like she had they are bound to have some sort of traumatic stresses. I also thing that if we had read ever excerpt out of the narrative we would have better understood her situation and whether or not she was exaggerating.
One other thing that I found interesting was the fact that the narrative itself is unique to the New World and the culture that it was creating. I think this has a lot to do with the Native Americans that were here when the settlers first came. This is a country that already had a culture and the settlers came in a short of invaded that culture. The result of this was the capture of settlers and then the captive narratives.
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