surely there are many who may be better employed than to lie sucking a stinking tobacco-pipe
again, subtly treating their culture like it's bad
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Then came one of them and gave me two spoonfuls of meal to comfort me, and another gave me half a pint of peas; which was more worth than many bushels at another time.
kind
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there was a sudden outcry among them
because the English were close?
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King Philip
His real name was Metacomet -- King Philip was a name given to him by the British. Another way of subtly colonizing them
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God did not give them courage or activity to go over after us.
why?
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squaws
Native American woman or wife
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heathen
word choice
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The first week of my being among them I hardly ate any thing
I remember reading in Cabeza de Vaca's account that the Natives ate pretty rarely
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filthy trash
their food isn't trash just because you're not familiar with it, MARY
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Being very faint I asked my mistress to give me one spoonful of the meal, but she would not give me a taste
why?
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Jehu
"Jehu was the tenth king of the northern Kingdom of Israel since Jeroboam I, noted for exterminating the house of Ahab. He was the son of Jehoshaphat, grandson of Nimshi, and possibly great-grandson of Omri, although the latter notion is not supported by the biblical text. His reign lasted for 28 years."
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it being near and following them
they're following to save her
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Wait on the Lord, Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine Heart, wait I say on the Lord
how she stayed strong was through her religion
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One of the Indians that came from Medfield fight, had brought some plunder, came to me, and asked me, if I would have a Bible, he had got one in his basket
they are not uncaring
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With tears in his eyes, he asked me whether his sister Sarah was dead; and told me he had seen his sister Mary
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there they told me they had buried it
the child didn't get a normal burial ritual
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King Philip
king philip was the nickname for a native american chief
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that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my own miserable life
suicide is a sin
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“your master will quickly knock your child in the head.”
they're going to kill the child so she won't suffer anymore
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King Philip
king philip as in king philip's war or as in an actual european monarch?
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Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me, and upheld me
the lord is merciful, but apparently not to the natives??
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pagans (now merciless enemies)
why are they enemies?
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what a poor feeble condition we were in
sick and injured
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having no Christian friend near me
acting as if the Christians are so much better
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like inhumane creatures
like the colonizers are any better??
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my wounded child
her child
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my poor wounded babe
still confused on if this is her literal child or not
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bearing up my spirit, that it did not quite fail
her religion is very important to her
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lively resemblance of hell
puritans had very strong views of hell
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Mary Rowlandson
"Mary Rowlandson, née White, later Mary Talcott, was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans in 1676 during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed."
PURITAN
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Little do many think what is the savageness and brutishness of this barbarous enemy
There is a very clear narrative that she's attempting to spin here
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All was gone, my husband gone
Why?
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black creatures
treating natives like animals
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doleful
expressing sorrow; mournful.
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our hearts no less than our bodies
hearts bleeding too -- emotionally wounded
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those barbarous creatures
Who are the "barbarous creatures"? The Natives? She's clearly very biased
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unexpected combination
Combinations that aren't typically shown in traditional classes
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consider what it means for literature to be “American.”
Important question that can be very hard to answer.
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it moves beyond the voices of old white men talking about even older white men.
I like this
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Who determines what counts as American literature?
Canonicity
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What is the difference between American literature and American history?
Is there even one? They're so interconnected it's hard to say.
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the desire to parody some serious and familiar form of stage or screen melodrama
parodies
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Keaton's comedy was based on the conflict between that imperviously dead-pan face, his tiny but almost superhuman physical instrument, and the immensity of the physical universe that surrounded them.
style of comedy
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Now when Indian children hear the fire crackling they say it is the hearts of the young thunders; for all their nations know of the brave deed of Mad Buffalo.
Mad Buffalo did what he had to do, but wow it was absolutely brutal.
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He seized another, pulled out its heart, threw the body away and spread the skin over the edge of the nest to dry. Then filling his pipe from a pouch of wolf skin suspended from his belt, he sat down to smoke. While resting he wrung the necks of the other birds and threw them into the Big Sea Water, saving only their hearts and claws.
That's...really brutal to do to babies who clearly had no more intentions of hurting him.
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crept close together and did not offer to touch him again
They're backing off
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It was made of the tendons of human beings, woven with their scalp locks and the feathers they had worn when living.
Gross
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he fought bravely; though, when they struck him with their sharp wings, it was like the prick of a poisoned arrow or the sting of a serpent.
They're strong!
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thunder-bird did evil to all who fell under its shadow.
The Moon-princess protects them
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the Moon-princess was journeying to see her brother, the Sun-prince,
Is this referring to the New Moon phase?
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and her shining lodge was hidden by the beautiful red
Eclipse?
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he sat with the oldest and the wisest of the tribe
This is how they show their appreciation, because it's an honor to sit with them
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by cunning, not by magic, cut them from the head of the Great Horned Serpent
He's also really smart. Admirable!!
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an Indian whom all his nation trusted,
They <3 Mad Buffalo
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He had often mastered the grizzly bear p. 30 and the strong buffalo
He's super strong!
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an Indian whom all his nation trusted,
They <3 Mad Buffalo
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They, too, smoked the peace-pipe, and there was no longer war among the nations, but each dwelt by its own river and hunted only the deer, the beaver, the bear, or the bison.
They're peaceful and don't want conflict.
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Big Sea Water
What does this refer to? All I can find is stuff about Lake Superior. Is that it?
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Indians
The way they refer to themselves as "Indians" is interesting to me, as that's what the Europeans referred to them as. Is it the translation?
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