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Women's Literature 18 Mary Rowlandson: Who Was She and What's Her Book About 92 Views
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Who was Mary Rowlandson? What was her book about? Why are you reading this description when you could be watching the video? Honestly, sometimes we wonder about you...
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Thank you We sneak Mary roland's in who was she
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and what's your book about eyelash shmoop She came to
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the united states before the united states She was living
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in this settlement of lancaster with her kids and then
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boom One day drinking phillips were which was a war
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with native american tribes were trying to revolt against these
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english people who are coming in regular land settlers if
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she wakes up one morning and she describes it as
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like just waking up in hell everything is burning and
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it's this huge weight on the camp And she's taken
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into captivity along with her kid three of her kits
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At the very beginning she sees one guy right She
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sees at least one at least one She sees their
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death before her very eyes and off she goes on
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this ill fated adventure eighty three days They have to
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walk over one hundred fifty miles which is a lot
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My commute is thirty miles every day and that's a
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lot and you don't want and i don't want so
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its current with bunch of little kids and twenty other
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captives and on they go it's a really tough journey
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The book is organized as a series of when she
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calls removes right So these like a little mini journeys
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where they're kind of going from place to place and
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marry dae so along the way on each of these
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removes you see mary trying to assert herself she's absolutely
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not a willing captive that's quite important because you can
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imagine she's writing this story for the people at home
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who had no idea what had happened to her while
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she was gone they could only imagine what she was
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doing It turns out that what she was doing was
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rebelling against her fingers Sassy incredibly sassy She talked back
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all the time On back she got in tow quite
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a tiff with one of the chapters Wives who wouldn't
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give her extra food to feed her children that were
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scraps in the camp and they didn't want to hand
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over Basically what mary rawlinson is doing is is changing
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the story of what it means to be a captive
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Why did king philip chief medic comet capture mary and
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her children What to remove How does mary act as
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a prisoner Mary wasn't captured They were just forcing ah 00:02:20.075 --> [endTime] vacation upon her
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