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Contemporary Literature 18 Mary Rowlandson: The Captivity Narrative 556 Views
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We're only going to hold you captive for a minute and thirty-two seconds, which is roughly eleven weeks less than Mary had to endure. Also, we'll be way less terrifying, so you're welcome .
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Thank you We sneak Mary roland's in captivity narrative allow
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shmoop isa captivity narrative which is a whole genre There
- 00:15
are a few of these at the time they were
- 00:16
hugely popular There was a story of people who have
- 00:19
been captured and then take it back So it's kind
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of like a travel book travel books but also a
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redemption narrative it's following a path that jesus also essentially
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followed And at the end the people who are worthy
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will be returned right So that cia scatological thing right
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way have this image of the end of the world
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of very beginning with the fire that burning but also
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the fact that she is eventually return that she is
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eventually brought that home is supposed to be as the
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book indicates part of the sovereignty and goodness is god
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it's the will of god to try you to make
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you suffer to test your face And then ultimately if
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you pass those tests to return you safely to the
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polls and hence this text emphasis on prayer and faith
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another thing she does its prey constantly She talked about
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it in the text as she tells us what she
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was doing every day Is a bible with mum and
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that's her way of asserting that she is a woman
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of faith And so in that sense the ending of
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the story is always inevitable The women will be survived
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What's A captivity narrative what s scatology I was rolling
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stone's view of god's role in this story Uh i 00:01:30.16 --> [endTime] want to be forced on a vacation
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