Mary Rowlandson was born 1637 and died at 1711. She was brought to Lancaster, a part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. During the King Philip’s War, She was captured by Native Americans and endured there for about eleven weeks when the Indians came to the village and wanted to reclaim the land from the colonies. After she was released by some money, she wrote a book called A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson about her experience on the days of being captured.
I read the first part of the book. It describes the terrible situation after the native Indians robbed the Lancaster. The house were burnt, many people die, even children. The Indians killed the people in a cruel way.
I was shocked after I finished reading the first section, and pitiful with their unfortunately experience. And it was just the beginning of the writer’s life by the Indian capture.
I think that is is important that you remember that the land on which the settlement stood was land that had been taken from the Indians. They had determined to take it back -- or at least slow the advance of the whites as they continued to take more land. I suppose that it is plain that a story always has two sides.
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