Rowlandson has the reader believing that the Indians are good at some points and evil at others, but she never completely gives the Indians a human voice. For instance, she starts with calling the Indians, “those barbarous creatures” (259), but a few removes into the narrative she reverts to calling her captors, “them” or …show more content…
This act isn’t cohesive with her many passages about saving her own family, or the English people in general. In fact, she even states immediately after this passage, “Thus the Lord made that pleasant refreshing, which another time would have been an abomination” (277). Rowlandson knows that what she did was wrong, but she supposed it necessary and doesn’t consider the action as barbaric as she would if she had witnessed an Indian taking food from an English