Examining both narratives reveals differences in the purpose of the narratives, the similar and contrasting experiences and reactions of the two captives, how religion played a role in both experiences and the elements of literature used in the two famous works. ... Olaudah Equiano wrote to decry the evils of slavery. ... On the other hand, like most puritans of her time, Mary Rowlandson wrote to discover God's purpose in her life. ... In both Equiano and Rowlandson experiences; religion played a significant role in both accounts of their captivity. ... Both stories played a role in in...

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"The diction and syntax were consciously unliterary" (Benet pg 37) is a description of one of the many ways Anderson wrote. ... Anderson furthermore "rebelled against what he termed the "poison plot"--that is, fiction written according to standardized formulas, readily marketable but unrealistic as portrayals of actual human beings and human experience - in favor of stories which developed their individual shapes "organically" out of the play of the imagination over observed reality" (DISCovering). ...

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For example where he focuses that the mother was the one that told him that the girl would rest her head on Phill's shoulder while Gonzalez,2 he played, and that was where he got the idea for the name of the song, it makes me imagine a girl telling this story as if it were very romantic instead of the father just saying it because it happened with the lack of any sentimental value for him. ... We can identify with the way he wrote this because in a way we all have retold a story in one or another point of our lives. ...

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