Captivity Narrative by Mary Rowlandson - Analysis
Mary Rowlandson. Image source Devices and Style · Some deviations from the subject In her younger years she lay under much trouble upon spiritual accounts, till it pleased God to make that precious scripture take hold of her heart, "And he said unto me, my Grace is sufficient for thee" (2 Corinthians 12.9). More than twenty years after, I have heard her tell how sweet and comfortable that place was to her. · Philosophizing When we are in prosperity, Oh the little that we think of such dreadful sights, and to see our dear friends, and relations lie bleeding out their heart-blood upon the ground. · Chapters titled "Removes"- "The First Remove" etc. · Quoting Scripture I may say, as it is in Psalm 38.5-6 "My wounds stink and are corrupt, I am troubled, I am bowed down ...