I'm not going to lie, this lady was pretty annoying at times. I can respect that she was all about God all the time, but when you quote the Bible in every other sentence you write it gets kind of old to the reader. Also, whoever wrote the preface must have never heard of a run on sentence, because just about every one was.
Alright then. So I thought Rowaldson made it sound kind of like she was in a POW camp for awhile, and I thought it was kind of strange that she never admitted to hating the indians or anything like that as any other person would have done. She did talk about them like they were actually humans unlike everyone else who wrote about them though, but i found it kind of weird that so many of them knew how to speak English. It seems to me more like she was just making up what they were saying. I also think that Rowaldson didn't feel the same way when all of this was occuring as she did when she was writing about it. Seems to me she was probably a little more bitter and hostile the whole time, at least before she got the bible, instead of being such an optimistic prisoner who knows she's probably going to die. In that situation none of us can say we'd just say, "Oh well, God's going to take me and give me to some indians to get tortured, starved, beaten, mocked and all that other nonsense for awhile". We wouldn;t be the least bit contented with that situation, but Rowaldson makes it seem like she was just looking at the upside of it the whole time. I don;t really know how to explain what i mean.
Anyway, Rowaldson talked about the indians like they weren't sub human or animals, but actually people. I noticed this particularly when her daughter died and she says, "then they went out and shewed me where it was, where I saw the ground was newly digged, and there they told me they had buried it" (448). If the indians were these animal like things that everyone else says it seems like they probably wouldn't have taken the trouble to bury a child rather than just leaving it.