The authors, Sarah Kemble Knight and Mary Rowlandson, do however, exhibit a few common traits. Both are young women who are experiencing life on the frontier. Each woman takes a life-altering journey and decides to record her experience. But upon closer examination on both accounts, it becomes evident that these women come from entirely different backgrounds, and that their journeys occur under very different circumstances.

Knight's journey to the frontier appears to have been voluntary, although she does not disclose this reason for her trip or the destination. She travels from Europe to the new land as an adventure. Rowlandson's journey is, as in the title, forced and Indian savages, who brutally murder her fellow villagers, husband and children, hold her captive. Each woman writes about her experience, but their styles differ greatly.

Rowlandson's journal is written in a documentary form. She describes the course of the events in great

As the journey wears on, Knight realizes that she is over whelmed with anxiety and frightened by the New World and the dangers it holds. "Added to which the Reflections, as in the afternoon of the day, that my Call was very questionable, which till then I had not so Prudently as I ought to considered" "on which having Strech't my tired Limbs, and lay'd my head on a Sad-colour'd pillow". The "Sad-colour'd pillow" refers to her emotions at the end of the day. Her pillow being "Sad-colour'd" indicates that she is likely questioning her decision to pioneer the New World.

the spangled Skies, whose Imperfect Reflections rendered every Object formidable. Each lifeless Trunk, with its shatter'd Limbs, appear'd an Armed

Rowlandson is portrayed as a woman who lives at the frontier, and has probably done so for her entire life. Having grown up in these harsh conditions, Rowlandson is no stranger to the hardships of manual labor and physical exhaustion. This is shown by her ability to walk behind a horse for long distances and at times carry her injured child all the while being wounded herself. "At length I took it off the horse and carried it in my arms till my strength failed." Rowlandson must sit in the snow and care for her ailing child in her lap; she does not think of anything else other than nursing her child back to health. "my own wound also growing stiff that I could scarce sit down or rise up; yet so it must be, that I must sit all this cold winter night upon the snowy ground with my sick child in my arms, looking that every hour would be last of its life, and having no Christian friend near me either to comfort or help me." Rowlandson describes her community in which she lives and the horrible Indian attack which takes the lives of everyone she knew and loved. "All was gone, my husband gone, my children gone, my relations and friends gone, out house and me and all our comforts within door and without, all was gone (except my life)." This is a very traumatic experience for Mary Rowlandson, who suffers greatly at the hands of the Indians during the course of her hostile abduction. With these images burned so firmly in her mind, Rowlandson writes this account of her ordeal after being rescued in an effort to provide a documentary of her experiences to future readers. This is reflected in her writing style, which is an accurate account of the course of events. It is apparent that she wants the reade

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