LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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her desire to return and tell her story to the Puritans
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her belief in God’s ultimate plan
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the medicine that a sympathetic woman gives her
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her desire to avenge the death of her child
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rowlandson unequivocally believes in the covenant between the Puritans and God, and, throughout the remove, further accentuates this belief of Puritan superiority suggesting further that God had specifically chosen her.
Detailed explanation-2: -In what ways does she use her experience to reaffirm Puritan beliefs? Rowlandson’s narrative demostrates the faith and love characteristics carried to experience her captivity. Faith, hope, love and trust are few characteristics that are in the foundation of Puritan beliefs.
Detailed explanation-3: -However, it does seem clear that Rowlandson understood her purpose in writing the narrative: to express the possibility of redemption with faith in God and his wisdom.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to Rowlandson, God’s will was giving her strength enough to endure; to not give up, but to keep going despite all her fears and sadness. “The Lord renewed my strength still and carried me along, that I might see more of his power” (312). Rowlandson’s intense faith in God keeps her alive.