1. Choose one text from the oral tradition and one from the Puritan tradition and discuss how each text captures the world view and cultural values of the group responsible for authorship. Then compare the values, beliefs and practices that are customary with each group. Compare how each group makes sense of the world and of the place of humans in the world.
Oral Tradition Puritans
Seneca, p. 35 Edwards, Faithful Narrative, p. 321
2. Discuss Mary Rowlandsons A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration as a tale of hardship and survival. What kinds of hardship does she face? What strategies does she employ to survive? How does she view/relate to the Native Americans? Does her view of them change? What does she seem to learn from her experience?
NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY AND RESTORATION OF MRS. MARY ROWLANDSON
By Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/851/851-h/851-h.htm
