omen also expressed their devotion in church. Women of that time seemed to be extremely educated in the subject of the church and their religion. The book notes her as a Puritan saint who seemed to find divine providence in the grueling situations. Throughout her ordeal she uses quotes and scriptures to help her cling on to hope and to somehow stay alive through her deadly situation. In the beginning she would walk along wounded and carrying her sick and dying child. " The Lord upheld me with his gracious and merciful Spirit, and we both alive to see the light of the next morning". (Pg 73) These are words from a woman of strength, courage and determination. You cannot obtain these skills overnight, she obtained these skills from years of being a strong productive housewife and enable to whatever it took to hold on and to survive for herself and her family who were depending on her strength. She used her sewing skills to sew things for the Indians who would in exchange give her food and items needed for survival. There were times that she would be so hungry that she could barely move, but yet she depended on god and believed that he would somehow provide her with the food that she need to survive another day. Even though the food that she received was food that it had not been for her situation she would never dream of eating because she thought of it as food fit for only animals and savages. But because she knew that she had to survive she ate it anyway. Through divine providence one of the Indians brought her a bible that she gladly accepted. Though she believed that the Indians were people of the wilderness who possessed pure evil there were some who did little or in some instances did huge things that made her believe that she would

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