drowns the possibility of accessing the core of Indian culture.
Well put. We can no longer "go back to the original ways" just like our discussion of the problem with "post" in postcolonialism.
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consuming the Indian culture.
Yes and no. The experience is completely different in the US compared to India. Yoga has been tainted by American values and economics.
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she was not aware of the historical significance her words carried, nor did she transfer contextual knowledge to the students in my class.
It sounds like the instructor just expected everyone in the class to just go along with what she was doing and saying. Sounds like semi/small-scale-colonialism to me.
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Western definition of yoga has been significantly altered through a fitness-centered capitalist mindset
This!! Fitness has become apart of the capitalist system. Fitness instructors want to market their product(s) to you so that you will buy into their beliefs; that their specific tool will make you have the perfect "ideal" body. Do you want to look like Kim Kardashian? Buy this tool or take this class for $xx.xx and you will! This is also seen with instagram models promoting fit teas or supplements.
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Our identities are partly prescribed to us by our parents
Humans often believe in what their parents believe in because their parents beliefs are the only ones that they have been exposed to up to a certain point.
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we are all subjects before we are born.
Similar to what we were talking about in class a few weeks ago...who we are (when we are babies) is determined by our parents. Boy = blue and monster trucks vs girl = pink and barbie dolls.
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they have left behind other women.
Strong statement, I love it.
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Everyone wants to be aligned with the “best” or the “top.”
Because that's how you "make it." That's how you become accepted as a good addition to society.
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sisterhood
Sisterhood is an interesting term to use. It has a lot of meaning.
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differences be noticed and acknowledged.
Exactly.
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women of every race, age, sexual preference, class, etc. need to band together to fight for equality.
Agreed, but the differences that we supposedly don't notice is important to do so.
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“I know,” rather than a “thank you.”
So females aren't allowed to be cocky or bold?
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There is practically no wiggle room in-between.
Because our society has made this power dynamic okay and "the norm" for centuries. Women are finally being able to get away with more today, but we have a long way to go to become equal through and through.
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This symbolizes that women come from man, and they are therefore NOT equal.
Excuse me, women are the backbone of humanity. Last time I checked, men didn't grow humans in their bodies and give birth.
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Lilith is aware of her value she is worth less in the eyes of both Adam and God, who are male.
IMPORTANT!
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demonized for her choices of leaving Adam and refusing to sleep with him. She becomes not just a demon, but gains the title as their mother, becoming a monstrous matriarch
So, because she didn't let a man have all the control/power, she became the "bad" one.
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she considered herself his equal
Uh-oh.
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Bible.
"The mother of demons" and Eve, who is known to have MADE Adam eat the forbidden fruit...hmm, I'm sensing a pattern about women here.
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Quite the leap
Perhaps it has to do with the man's own insecurities.
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She was no longer a pretty little lady, but a bitch.
So the man gathered this from a two word response? Interesting. This reminds me of something I've heard before: A man is a boss, but a woman is just bossy. Gender roles are interesting when a man/woman are doing the same thing.
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interpreting”, anything is possible
I suppose, but you could say that about any situation, that's taking the easy way out. Anyone could take anything any way.
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the amount of subliminal adult humor present in the show
Yes, which went right over our heads as kids, but even now I don't believe the Oedipus complex is in this (or any that I've seen) episode(s). It's a bit of a stretch. Grandmas like to baby their grandkids. They like to pinch cheeks and give forehead/cheek kisses. They like to bake cookies and spoil their grandkids with food and treats.
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sleep with his grandmother
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and is finally happy again.
Who would (and could) deny Grandma's cookies? I still don't see the Oedipus complex in this episode...
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childlike behavior
Ex:
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kisses him goodbye
But, she kisses him on the forehead...there's nothing sexual about that.
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“Grandma’s Kisses”, is really just a display of the Oedipus complex disguised as wholesome children’s entertainment.
Noooo Carmen don't ruin SpongeBob for me!
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we assume that Freud was right about everyone having a repressed incestuous desire to be with their parents
I really disagree with Freud's opinion on this matter. Yuck.
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But when was the last time Stranger Things started a civil war?
Well, I mean, 13 Reasons Why caused a great uproar about quite a few different scenes in the show. Many bombarded Netflix, urging them to cancel the show as some scenes are not fit for teenagers to watch. But that is like saying 13 Reasons Why causes teenagers to commit suicide. That just doesn't make sense, there's a lot more to it than that. A work of fiction, even if based on actual events, can't just magically start a war. The novel brought up some tensions that were already present in the US. It's not like Americans were unaware of these tensions before reading the novel.
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Abraham Lincoln reportedly called Stowe ‘the little lady who made this great war.’”
A novel can't just cause a war. There were already opposing sides and a lot more to it than what is described in the book (or the chapters that we read).
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the magnitude of impact that it made on America as a whole.
I agree.
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shouldn’t be
So they are now?
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Missis wouldn’t hear of our ridin’ the critters over Lizy’s bridge tonight;”
"Critters" again. Also, horses can't go across the ice, so they go home. Yay Eliza!
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he was disappearing down the bank
Run, girl! Run!
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underground
underground railroad
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Newfoundland
What a good boy.
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you shall be redeemed as soon as I can any way bring together means. Sir,” she said to Haley, “take good account of who you sell him to, and let me know.”
Grant his freedom or buy him back so he's under the Shelby's ownership again?
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“My good boy,”
Like a dog.
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crittur’s soul
Crittur is an interesting word in this story. In the beginning, a white man called a slave a crittur (which I took to be animalistic) but here it doesn't seem animalistic because it's coming from Uncle Tom. It's interesting that words can imply different meanings when said by different people.
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Lor, if the devil don’t get them, what’s he good for?”
She has a point.
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Jordan
Who's Jordan?
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he danger decreased with the distance,
I don't know how much I believe that.
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When horses and vehicles began to move along the highway, with that alert perception peculiar to a state of excitement, and which seems to be a sort of inspiration, she became aware that her headlong pace and distracted air might bring on her remark and suspicion.
Why did she choose to escape on foot by the road? She should have gone into the woods to keep out of sight.
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going to be torn from you by a brutal trader, tomorrow morning,—if you had seen the man, and heard that the papers were signed and delivered, and you had only from twelve o’clock till morning to make good your escape,—how fast could you walk?
Having not read the chapters in between 3 and 7, I assume Eliza's child was set to be sold to the mean slave owner, so she is fleeing to Canada like George planned to.
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when I’m there, I’ll buy you
Just like Madison Washington. If his wife & family aren't free, neither is he.
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Canada
So he hasn't given up...he just wants to escape. I don't blame him.
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slave can’t be married? There is no law in this country for that
Aww the marriage wasn't authentic. Poor Eliza.
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he hates Mr. Shelby and all his tribe, because they are proud, and hold their heads up above him
He's just such a bitter and jealous man.
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I an’t a Christian like you, Eliza; my heart’s full of bitterness; I can’t trust in God. Why does he let things be so?”
Lost hope and faith...recipe for disaster.
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Mas’r came along, and said I was feeding him up at his expense, and that he couldn’t afford to have every nigger keeping his dog, and ordered me to tie a stone to his neck and throw him in the pond.” “O, George, you didn’t do it!” “Do it? not I!—but he did. Mas’r and Tom pelted the poor drowning creature with stones.
Nooo! Poor doggo.
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I’m afraid you’ll do something dreadful.
Either kill his master or kill himself.
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Yes, Eliza, it’s all misery, misery, misery!
He's given up hope.
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“I wish he’d never been born!”
Harsh to say in front of the kid, but I understand where he's coming from.
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nothing to interrupt their happiness, except the loss of two infant children, to whom she was passionately attached, and whom she mourned with a grief so intense
No wonder she is so afraid of losing another child. :-( Poor Eliza.
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his determination to keep the power he possessed over his victim
"Victim" an interesting word choice.
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a whole volcano of bitter feelings burned in his bosom, and sent streams of fire through his veins.
I can only imagine how many times similar situations happened. George is powerless, he can't do anything about it. How awful.
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O yes! a machine for saving work, is it? He’d invent that, I’ll be bound; let a nigger alone for that, any time. They are all labor-saving machines themselves, every one of ‘em.
He's just jealous he isn't smart enough to build a machine. Get over yourself.
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handsome and manly
masculinity
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skill
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I would as soon have one of my own children sold.
She seems sincere.
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never means to sell any of his servants, as long as they behave well.
We'll see...
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you Kentucky folks spile your niggers. You mean well by ‘em,
You mean the Kentucky folks treat them as actual human beings? Say it ain't so!
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Tan’t, you know, as if it was white folks, that’s brought up in the way of ‘spectin’ to keep their children and wives, and all that. Niggers, you know, that’s fetched up properly, ha’n’t no kind of ‘spectations of no kind; so all these things comes easier.”
They don't have those expectations because white men like you took that option away from them.
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out of sight, out of mind
Not quite buddy
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it’s the devil
No, it's not the devil, it's the white men. If slaves are Christians, do slave owners think that they won't act out because when they do it's a "sign of the devil"? Is that why religious slaves are worth more?
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could not help laugh
He thinks it's absurd.
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piquant
exciting/interesting
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considering himself a second Wilberforce.
If he wanted to stop the slave trade, he wouldn't be selling Tom and wouldn't have slaves to begin with.
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makes ‘em quite unfit for service
No, really? You don't say!
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what if you get the girl off for a day, or a week
Yeah, because in a day or a week she's going to forget about her baby. Yup, that's how it works.
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It is mighty onpleasant getting on with women, sometimes, I al’ays hates these yer screechin,’ screamin’ times.
Well yeah, if you take a woman's baby from her she's going to scream and cry. What a disgraceful human.
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wants to buy up handsome boys to raise for the market.
Animalistic
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ou’ll let me have the boy, though
No! Don't break up the family :-(
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Both gentlemen laughed uproariously.
Using Jim as entertainment...showing off his skills as to sell him.
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master laughed.
Back to the conscious...does he even have one?
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There was something in his appearance remarkably beautiful and engaging.
Just like the past couple texts...White men see something beautiful about biracial slaves.
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you would, Haley, if you had any conscience.
Hmm...conscience for selling/buying people like animals?
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You ought to let him cover the whole balance of the debt
Knew it had to do with money. Is he sticking up for Tom because he really is a great slave or is he trying to make him out to be a great slave so his debt is covered?
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I consider religion a valeyable thing in a nigger
Religion = more $
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Word choice
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Tom is a good, steady, sensible, pious fellow. He got religion at a camp-meeting, four years ago; and I believe he really did get it. I’ve trusted him, since then, with everything I have,—money, house, horses,—and let him come and go round the country; and I always found him true and square in everything.”
Sticking up for Tom, why? Is this about money?
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heavy gold
An extremely wealthy man...slave owner?
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support the slave trade
Ehh, is he really, or is he freeing his friend so his friend can free more (wife & kids)?
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one of them I should like to purchase
Yes, because he was trying to save his friend that changed his view on slaves and who he knew. There is no selfishness to this action.
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selfishness
Strongly disagree.
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Odd, though, that an abolitionist would consider supporting the slave trade to free his friend, only his friend, and nobody else.
Haven't thought about it in this way...my view of Mr. Listwell is changing slightly. It still matters though that he did everything he could to help Douglass. And not to mention if he was caught helping Douglass, nevermind any of the other slaves, that there would be dire (to a white man) consequences.
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point of view matters
Yes, yes, yes! POV is super important especially in this story.
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flips on its head.
That's for sure.
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sell a slave narrative.
I don't know if I quite agree with Melville trying to sell us a slave narrative. Is Benito Cereno considered a slave narrative? What constitutes a slave narrative?
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Introduction
Do introductions always give away what is going to happen in the story? Do introductions present themes to the readers before reading? Wouldn't this sway their overall reading experience?
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If the themes were fleeting themes, and if they were not still relevant today, then the story would not be canonical.
Bold statement.
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never-ending popularity
Because teachers keep teaching it, students become teachers, and keep teaching it. Does this make it enough to canonize it? Perhaps.
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While Rip stayed the same, his whole world around him moved forward.
Important
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because he is an old man, no one question his laziness and laid back lifestyle.
Or because he woke up in America rather than a colony who still worshiped the King and his behavior was normal.
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waste his days
Is he really wasting his days?
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meets the traveling man who does not appear normal dressed and is very short. It can be inferred by the description that this person is like an elf or perhaps a dwarf of the forest.
But, at the end of the story, the townspeople know of the man because they say, "Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of nine-pins; and it is a common wish of all hen-pecked husbands in the neighborhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting drought out of Rip Van Winkle's flagon" (70).
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magical
Does everything "magical" count as a sort of mysticism?
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There are several themes throughout “Rip Van Winkle.” The two most prevalent are mysticism and stasis versus change.
Feminism is a huge theme as well.
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every action they both take is motivated by the pursuit of a man
Exactly. The women's' whole lives within the text are composed of thoughts, feelings, and needs of men.
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male colonialist’s wet dream
Interesting word choice...but she's not wrong.
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bechdel test
A method for evaluating the representation of women in fiction. A work must feature at least two women. These women must talk to each other about anything other than a man.
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Winkfield drinks poison to prove his love for Unca and she miraculously revives him with her deep knowledge of North American botany
Sounds like Romeo and Juliet's attempt at love, except this one is successful. Surely sounds like a Disney movie if I've ever seen one.
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over-romanticized tale
Absolutely, 100% agree.
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melancholy and wretched captivity”
Aren't all captives, no matter the race, sad? Being taken from your home/your culture is not something to be happy about, obviously, but both of these writers make it seem like they are the only captives who are allowed to feel this way.
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a white woman was hurt by a group of non-white people
She just liked to play victim.
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toxicity of imperialism and systemic racism
Yes!
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whom I preferred before myself,
She doesn't prefer anyone over herself, she's extremely selfish. She's only saying this to stay relevant 🙄
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The Indians often said that I should never have her under twenty pounds. But now the Lord hath brought her in upon free-cost, and given her to me the second time.
Why is she free but none of the other children are?
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through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left...
Unrelated to the above, it seems as though life is finally falling back into place for her.
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pitiful, tender-hearted and compassionate Christians
I'm sure that generalization doesn't fit all Christians, just like the generalization of all Native Americans being liars doesn't.
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he had helped to bury her, and knew it not.
Devestating
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my heart melted into tears,
Finally getting her wish of going home. I'm sure she's thrilled to get back to "normal" life.
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go home along with me
This is interesting. Why would they want to go with them?
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shaking me by the hand, offering me a hood and scarfe to ride in; not one moving hand or tongue against it.
They were probably overjoyed to see you go.
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with their black faces)
Yeah, they mourn with their black faces, just as you mourn with your white one. What is the point of pointing that out? To make them seem dirty?
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the very bark of trees
They do what they can to survive. She's acts so snooty.
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how to admiration did the Lord preserve them for His holy ends, and the destruction of many still amongst the English
This is where I would think she'd start questioning her faith. Why is it that He protected them and not you? Why would he do that if they were heathens? What does that say about the English? Shouldn't that be a sign that the English are in the wrong?
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our poor country
"Our" poor country? "OUR" poor country? Don't be absurd.
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God seemed to leave his People to themselves, and order all things for His own holy ends. Shall there be evil in the City and the Lord hath not done it?
I'm very surprised she didn't question her religion at all throughout this entire text
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Then I took it of the child, and eat it myself,
Aaaaand this is why no one likes you. Selfish, rude, and weak woman.
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liar from the beginning.
It's hard to generalize an entire race as liars. Some of them were nice, like the man who gave you the bible, and the ones who traded you money/food for your knitting skills.
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God did not leave me to have my impatience work towards Himself, as if His ways were unrighteous. But I knew that He laid upon me less than I deserved.
Why does she seem so guilty? Perhaps before being captured, she didn't pray or read the bible as much? Does she only rely on religion if something bad is happening to her?
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barbarous heathens
Still dehumanizing the Native Americans.
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Have pity upon me
Interesting choice of words.
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she threw a handful of ashes in mine eyes
Rude. Also, ow.
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she threw a handful of ashes in mine eyes
Rude. Also, ow.
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his master roasted him, and that himself did eat a piece of him, as big as his two fingers, and that he was very good meat
I think they are just trying to scare her. They life to use fear as a tactic.
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Native American woman/wife
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Then one of the company drew his sword, and told me he would run me through if I did not go presently.
Girl, you're lucky to be alive. Just follow his commands and keep your nose down.
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my master being gone, who seemed to me the best friend that I had of an Indian, both in cold and hunger, and quickly so it proved.
Is this why her mistress doesn't seem to like her? Jealous?
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on a sudden my mistress gives out; she would go no further, but turn back again, and said I must go back again with her
Not so lucky after all.
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going homeward
Homeward as in her home?
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he snatched it hastily out of my hand, and threw it out of doors
So some Native Americans are okay with her reading her bible, but others aren't. I;m curious as to why that is.
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sell me for powder
Somehow she thinks her buyer is going to be any better than the folks she's with now? It seems she has it pretty good for the situation she's in. She's making money, has food, has her bible, and her son is near.
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Hearing that my son was come to this place,
How can her son just come and go as he pleases? I want to know more about him/his journey.
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would eat nothing
Rude
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bade me keep it
Is this, perhaps, a sign of minor respect?
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I fell aweeping,
Overwhelmed?
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retreat
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God would have found out a way
Everything leads back to God...Faith is keeping her going.
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set their wigwams on fire,
Covering their tracks? Signaling the English for some reason?
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papooses
Bags
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they would break my face
They enjoy using violence as an incentive.
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knitting a pair of white cotton stockings for my mistress;
The mistress must be nice to her in some way if she is willing to knit her a gift instead of knitting herself something to keep warm.
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she would not give me a taste.
She'd probably be beaten if she did without her husband's approval.
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wound
I thought she was more or less healed from the oaken bark.
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bier
Usually a movable board where a corpse lies.
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some carried their old decrepit mothers, some carried one, and some another.
Out of respect for the elders. Elders are wise and needed for the tribe.
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turn all those curses upon our enemies
Interesting
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Englishmen’s scalps that they had taken
Perhaps not just burning houses...
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destroyed (which was at that time twenty-three).
I'm assuming they're talking about the burning of houses.
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burn Medfield
Such was the case with many towns throughout the King Phillip War.
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I had not seen him before, since the destruction of the town, and I knew not where he was, till I was informed by himself,
Male = more leniency?
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sold for a gun.
Didn't realize children were used in this way.
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my child being even ready to depart this sorrowful world
Could the Indians not heal her? What about the oaken leaves that healed Robert Pepper and her?
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oaken leaves
Some type of medicine?
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it was easy for me to see how righteous it was with God to cut off the thread of my life and cast me out of His presence forever. Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me, and upheld me; and as He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other.
She feels guilty for not being a good enough Christian. Faith is all she has in this moment, so she clings to it. What did she do for God to cast her out of his presence? She feels as if she deserves/knew the "punishment" the Native Americans are putting her through was coming. What does she feel guilty for?
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; what with my own wound, and my child’s being so exceeding sick
What happened to her? Why is her baby so sick?
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A little surprised they even care enough about the baby to keep it with it being wounded and all.
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were slain and mangled in a barbarous manner
Aren't all manners of killing "barbarous"? Are the ways in which the Englishmen kill not barbarous?
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the Indians told me they would kill him as he came homeward), my children gone, my relations and friends gone, our house and home and all our comforts—within door and without—all was gone
Sounds all too familiar, except the roles are usually reversed.
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Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell.
Exuberant behaviour is suddenly a sign of devilish behaviour? Upbeat people = hellions?
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"They" and "them" are being used...they and them who?
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And so the dominance hierarchy began.
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He fairly shook with joy at the thought, so that he fell over backward and could not get on his feet again, but had to wriggle off on his back, as the Grubworm has done ever since.
No one should be joyous at the thought of killing others, even man for all the horrible things they had done. It seems this is an instance of karma. "An eye for an eye" is not always the appropriate way of thinking, as proven here.
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The Ground Squirrel alone ventured to say a word in behalf of man, who seldom hurt him because he was so small; but this so enraged the others that they fell upon the Ground Squirrel and tore him with their teeth and claws, and the stripes remain on his back to this day.
This makes the other animals just as bad as man, if not worse. Man harms/kills for food, these animals harmed this poor squirrel because of rage and because the squirrel didn't agree with what they were doing.
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