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  • Smith's Experiences As An Indian
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    In Indian Killer A lexie uses a pulp-fiction form, the serial killer mystery, to frame the social issues facing American Indians. He populates the book with stock characters such as a grizzled ex-cop, a left-wing professor, a right-wing talk radio personality, drunken bums, thuggish teenagers and a schizophrenic main character who serves as the most obvious suspect in a mystery that never quite resolves itself. John Smith, the troubled Indian adopted by whites appears at first to be the main cha...
  • Marys Covenant With God
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    The Puritans Covenant With God, As Revealed In Narrative Of The Captivity & Restoration Of The Puritans Covenant With God, As Revealed in Narrative of the Captivity & Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson When one thinks of the Puritans, images are conjured of Pilgrims sharing a Thanksgiving feast with their Indian neighbors. The Puritans settled in New England to exercise their religious freedom to worship God in their own devout (and some believed) overly zealous way. They were going to tame the...
  • Mary's Time With The Indians
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    "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" In "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson", Mary Rowlandson, a Puritan mother from Lancaster, Massachusetts, recounts the invasion of her town by Indians in 1676 during "King Philip's War", when the Indians attempted to regain their tribal lands. She describes the period of time where she is held under captivity by the Indians, and the dire circumstances under which she lives. During these terri...
  • Life Of Mary Jemison
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    An Essay on Aspects of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison Imagine, a teenage girl of fifteen, leading a typical family life in rural America, suddenly, with little warning, having she and her family violently set upon and abducted by a strange band of invaders. These kidnappers, so different in actions, customs and appearance that the mere sight of them brought a terror that the next breath might be their last. Is this a present day kidnap story. No! It occurred in 1758 to Mary Jemison during the Fre...
  • Comparison Between Magawisca And Mary Rowlandson
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    A narrative's perspective relies soul on the narrators point of view. Two stories with similar circumstances and events can have adverse affects on it's reader. Point of view can single handedly determine the mood and tone the story will take on. Similar and even parallel stories with completely different objectives leave us with an especially great opportunity to take a critical view of its' characters through compare and contrast methods. This is particularly true in The Narrative of the Capti...
  • David's Perception Of Indians
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    The novel "Montana 1948" by Larry Watson describes the value of life between Whites and Native Americans. In this story, the Native American Indian was considered by many to be of a low class in society. In contrast, a White man who's a war hero and respected doctor is so powerful. The passage I chose shows how this power of the elitists can be used against the Indians, how justice was mainly controlled by the powerful, and how the community as a whole treated the Indians. In this novel, the twe...
  • Mary Rowlandson World View
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    Savage Indians: Mary Rowlandson's World-View Metacom et, also known Phillip, was a Wampanoag Indian who started a series of attacks on colonial settlements in 1675. Not much is known about Mary Rowlandson's life except for the fact that she was a devout puritan as a minister's wife. However, when the Wampanoag Indians captured her for eleven weeks, she made a record of her time with them. Her world-view is passive and she sees God everywhere in her life as the "Divine Providence". As a result, s...

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