so would hope that she was not so deluded that she “forgot” that they had given her food, which she was “so desperate for,” that she was able to hoard it for a later date. However, it may be an unfair assumption on my part to believe that this was the Mather’s doing since she complained of her dying child’s lack of food, yet hoard it for herself. Not to mention that when she went begging for food at another time, Mary and a captive child were given boiled horse feet, and after she ate hers she ate the child’s because he/she could not bite it and was only gnawing on it.I think that this narrative is important for us to read in order to understand the mind-sets of the colonists and the Indians at the time of King Philip’s War. I believe that it is an excellent source, and really allows the reader to get a peak at what life was like during the 17th century. I also think that it is amazing that she is the second “American” woman to write and publish a book, and it is interesting to see how strong she was to preserve her own life in such an unfamiliar and “uncivilized” situation....
