Mary Rowlandson was captured by the Wampanoag Indians on February 10, 1675. Everything Rowlandson had known and loved was destroyed by the natives.

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Ms. Carmen Lawrence

English 2110-101

October 20, 2012

Not Easily Removed

        Mary Rowlandson was captured by the Wampanoag Indians on February 10, 1675.  Everything Rowlandson had known and loved was destroyed by the natives.  For eleven weeks, Mary Rowlandson was held captive as she traveled through the wilderness discovering a world she never knew existed.  Although Rowlandson refers to the Native Americans as “barbarous creatures” and “merciless enemies,” she quickly realized her dependency on them to live and her faith in God.

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        During The Fifth Remove, Mary Rowlandson talks about the hunger she felt. “The first week of my being among them, I hardly eat any thing; the second week, I found my stomach grow very faint for want of something…but the third week, though I could think how formerly my stomach would turn against this or that, and I could starve and die before I could eat such things, yet they were sweet and savory to my taste” (243-44).  The thought of eating raw horse meat and bear meat was disgusting to Rowlandson.  However, in her will to live and see ...

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