... , and turned my hand against their Adversaries" (80). The message for a Puritan like Rowlandson was this: if you are a true follower of God, soon He will break the forces of the Indians. At the outset of her narrative, Rowlandson wrote about the Indian attack on the town of Lancaster. She thought it a doleful sight to see many Christians lying in a pool of their own blood (70). She ... saved her, but she also accepted that He was the one that placed her in captivity because of her spiritual failings. She deduced the events that befell her were in direct correlation with her religious dec...

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