rse they had the same ideas and beliefs, but does Rowlandson show them. The New England Puritans believed that if the Indians did not convert to Christianity then they should not be interacted with. On the other hand, Rowlandson had to interact with the Indians. She did not try to convert the Indians but she did pray and read the Bible in front of them. As far as Rowlandson having Puritan beliefs and acting as a true Puritan, the Puritan society would have considered her to be just a bad as Indians. And I cannot but admire at the wonderful power and goodness of God to me, in that though I was gone from home, and met with all sorts of Indians, and those I had no knowledge of, and there being no Christian Soul near me; yet not one of them offered the least imaginable miscarriage to me (Rowlandson p. 42). I believe that Rowlandsons values and Puritans values are still the same, Rowlandson just has to use and stress hers because of the Indians and her captivity.One knows that Rowlandson was captured for eleven weeks. Within those weeks she was put through Hell and back. She endured death, pain and suffering by the Indians. She formed opinions of them and how she personally viewed them. This was the dolefullest night that ever my eyes saw: oh the roaring, and singing, and dancing and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell (Rowlandson p. 29). She viewed them as black creatures who have forced her to endure a living hell. Through her Puritan way she also refers to the Indians as heathens and hell hound because they do not turn to God for a pure way of life. Towards the end of the ninth removal she encounters some Indians that were different that the black creatures she was used to. And yet these were strangers to me that I never knew before ( Rowlandson p. 43). These strangers were nice Indians that offered food and warmth from the winter air. From this point onward Row...
