The Unredeemed Captive: Book summary and author's theme
The Unredeemed Captive was a brilliant attempt to pull together both an interesting story with many historical facts. I ultimately believe that Demo's main purpose in writing this piece was to write a story. This book, I believe is about finding your self identity and where you belong through different life experiences and situations. From John Williams being held captive, and going back to Puritanism when released to Eunice whom stayed with the Indians her whole life, the book shows many viewpoints from different individuals. The Unredeemed Captive shows the path of abduction and adoption of American settlers by Indians. The book starts in 1704. The Mohawk Indians are allied with the French in Canada and attack Deerfield, a small village in Massachusetts. Reverend John Williams, the minister from Deerfield, was the main target for captivity because Boston held Jean-Baptiste Gayen whom the Canadians wanted returned. Two of Williams' children were murdered the night of the raid and the minister along with his wife and other children were marched to Canada with the rest of the Deerfield captives. The family was separated and they all realized that it might have been the last time they would ever see ea
One passage describes the time when her father came to visit her when they both were in captivity. Why does Eunice refuse to go home? The people she used to know and loved missed her so why would she choose to remain a "savage" for the rest of her life? I feel that there were numerous conflicting feelings running through this young girl's head, but would have to agree with her reason(s) for staying. After some years Reverend Williams returned home, began to focus on reassembling his original life and remarried Abigail Bissell, a widow from Connecticut. He grew closer to God and his redemption was an act of God while Eunice went the complete other direction and stayed with her captors. AT sixteen Eunice married an Indian boy and became A'ongote. Since family and religion were basically the back bone of the Puritans' self-existence, they had a hard time living in captivity. There is more underneath all of this. This shows how he feels about the people who captured him and his family and how his sweet daughter is being transformed into their way of life. Why SHOULD she go home? Pages 108-109 gives us a description of the feelings Eunice was feeling at the time. All of his children that were still alive were redeemed except for his daughter Eunice. During his time with the savages, he always had faith and never forgot the Puritan way of life.
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