Mary Rownlandsons Change in the Views Towards the Food of the Indians as a Metaphor for the Change of Her Personality During Her Captivity Essay

Throughout the narrative we can see how Mary Rowlandsons views towards the food of the Indians gradually shifts throughout her captivity, and how this is related to the changes in her Puritan values and life throughout her eleven weeks of captivity. The idea of food is constantly used throughout Mary Rowlandsons narrative, because it was the one essential physical desire that she needed to survive her captivity. Before her captivity, Mary Rowlandson was the wife of a Puritan minister that knew nothing of what suffering and affliction was like (Rowlandson Salisbury, 16). We know this because Rowlandson stated, Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it (Rowlandson Salisbury, 112). Rowlandson also stated, One hour I have been in health, and wealth, wanting nothing But the next hour in sickness and wounds, and death, having nothing but sorrow and affliction (Rowlandson Salisbury, 111). We can infer from this statement that Rowlandson and her family had always had plenty of shelter, clothing, and especially food before being captured by the Indians. After the February 10, 1675 attack by the Narrhaganset Indians on her Lancaster home, Mary Rowlandson described the attacking Indians as Barbarous Creatures, whom she had to go with in order to survive (Rowlandson Salisbury, 70). During the first week of her captivity, Rowlandson hardly ate a thing. The diet of the Indians was something that most of the Puritans, including Mary Rowlandson, were not use to. During the third remove, Rowlandson complained that neither she nor her child had been given any food and only a little cold water (Rowlandson Salisbury, 73-74). This however is untrue, for she later states, I having nothing to eat by the way this day, but a few crumbs of Cake, that an Indian gave my girle the same day we were taken (Rowlandson Salisbury, 92). This statement shows how little she cared for the food of the...

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