An excellent example of Rowlandson's mastery of prosaic writing style is clearly evident in a quote that I have selected where Rowlandson tells of the impediments a young child is having attempting to eat boiled horses feet, " but the Child could not bite it, it was so tough and sinewy, but lay sucking, gnawing, chewing, and slobbering it in the Mouth and Hand, then I took it of the Child, and eat it myself; and savoury it was to my taste." (Rowlandson 36). The afore mentioned quote is excellent example of how Rowlandson meticulously harnesses the literary power of prose to create in depth and vivid pictures in the readers" minds of the situations and conditions she experiences. The last and possibly most obvious pattern that Rowlandson's narrative bears is her continuous references to the scriptures, in almost every situation that Rowlandson encounters she in some way or another relates it to a religious scripture and uses it as a class of propaganda, "That I may say as Job, Chap. 6. 7. The things that my soul refused to touch, are as sorrowful as my meat. Thus the Lord made that pleasant and refreshing, which another time would have been an Abomination." (Rowlandson 36). In the previous quote Rowlandson is saying that her God changed, in essence, bad tasting food into something that is pleasant and refreshing to her, oh what a powerful religion Rowlandson speaks of .
The next piece that I am going to examine is Harriet Jacob's narrative in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. In this particular narrative we are told of the trials and tribulations of a female slave living in the confederate South at the very crest of slavery. One very ingenious pattern that had emerged in Jacobs" piece is her direct address of the audience as "Reader" in various times throughout the novel, by doing this Jacobs" instills an incredible sense of equality/sameness between the reader and the writer setting the stage for a "friendly" mutual relationship so to speak:.