lay her sinful nature. Her capacity to perform such a heartless deed clearly showed her carelessness with God. Rowlandson depicted this scene to not only reveal the conditions of her suffering and hunger, but also to expose the drift from faith. For this reason, God was disciplining them. Her tale of divine deliverance was her effort to have the Puritans regain authority once again and remind her audience of God's almighty power.
             Because Rowlandson was a Calvinist who believed in predestination, she regarded the Indians as the antithesis of civilization. The Indians were the epitome of "murderous wretches," "barbarous creatures," "ravenous beasts," and "bloody heathens" (p70)
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