Changes in Mary Rowlandson’s Life during Captivity

Throughout the narrative we can see how Mary Rowlandson’s views towards the food of the Indians gradually shifts throughout her captivity, and how this is related to the changes in her Puritan values and life throughout her eleven weeks of captivity. The idea of food is constantly used throughout Mary Rowlandson’s narrative, because it was the one essential physical desire that she needed to survive her captivity. Before her captivity, Mary Rowlandson was …

…another example of how food and hunger changed her life during her captivity. Rowlandson’s life had changed after her experience with the Indians. The reoccurring idea of food and how Rowlandson’s taste for it changed throughout the narrative could be used as a metaphor to show also how her identity has changed from what it was before her captivity. Rowlandson had to give up some of her Puritan values in order to survive.