1. American Sense of Self Reflected in Literary Movements
... anarchy, but rather made the Puritans want to live as purely as possible in case they were chosen to be saved. One of the more famous literary works from the Puritan age was A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. During King Phillip's War, the settlers ... of faith, she in no way considers the events or her captors as being a force independent from God. Numerous times throughout her story she quotes scripture. On her sixteenth move, Rowlandson found herself walking through ice cold water, tired, hungry, and in pain. While the Indians were mocking her slo...
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- Grade Level: High School
