Essay on Mary Rowlandson and Sarah Knight
The journals of Sarah Kemble Knight ands Mary Rowaldson, describe the two women's journeys in the New World of America in the Seventeenth Century. Both women display numerous differences in their diction and personality; and neither of them shares a great deal of similarities. The authors, Sarah Kemble Knight and Mary Rowlandson, do however, exhibit a few common traits. Both are young women who are experiencing life on the frontier. Each woman takes a life-altering journey and decides to record her experience. But upon closer examination on both accounts, it becomes evident that these women come from entirely different backgrounds, and that their journeys occur under very different circumstances. Knight's journey to the frontier appears to have been voluntary, although she does not disclose this reason for her trip or the destination. She travels from Europe to the new land as an adventure. Rowlandson's journey is, as in the title, forced and Indian savages, who brutally murder her fellow villagers, husband and children, hold her captive. Each woman writes about her experience, but their styles differ greatly. Rowlandson's journal is written in a documentary form. She describes the course of the events in great
"I, being hungry, got a little down, but my stomach was soon cloy'd, and what cabbage I swallowed serv'd me for a Cud the whole day after. "Then they set me upon a horse with my wounded child in my lap, and there being no furniture upon the horse back, as we were going down a steep hill, we both fell over the horse's head, at which they like inhumane creatures laughed and rejoiced to see it, though I thought we should have ended our days, as overcome with so many difficulties. "At length I took it off the horse and carried it in my arms till my strength failed. It is more personal in nature and not meant to be read by the public. She regrets not having been a better and more devout Christian before tragedy struck. It robs her of everything that is dear to her and her life as she knows it. Rowlandson is portrayed as a woman who lives at the frontier, and has probably done so for her entire life. Inevitably, the journey turns into a terrifying ordeal, and she depends on her guides to keep her safe and to get her to her final destination. The "Sad-colour'd pillow" refers to her emotions at the end of the day. Knight's journal is an account of her personal impressions during her travels. "my own wound also growing stiff that I could scarce sit down or rise up; yet so it must be, that I must sit all this cold winter night upon the snowy ground with my sick child in my arms, looking that every hour would be last of its life, and having no Christian friend near me either to comfort or help me. "Fill'd my Imagination with the pleasant delusion of a Sumptuous city, fill'd with famous Buildings and Churches". Even during times of extreme pain and anguish she maintains her composure. " This further depicts Rowlandson as a woman of tremendous inner strength. While both Knight and Rowlandson are young women on the frontier.
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