Green Blast Feet By Mary Rowlandson

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“My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down,”-Bob Moore. This quote demonstrates that people gain emotional strength from fighting through adverse experiences. This concept is shown in the texts “ The Story of Green-Blanket Feet”, an excerpt from Spider Woman's Granddaughter by Humishima, and the text Mary Rowlandson, an excerpt from “From a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.” Both women go through similar difficult situations, however they both find strength in protecting things close to them and they both come out of their difficult situations stronger. This concludes that a person’s greatest strength is protecting what they love. Green …show more content…

Green-Blanket Feet eventually gathered enough strength from her children to leave her husband, only to find herself captured by the Blackfoot tribe. Green-Blanket Feet and her son became slaves to the Blackfoot tribe when they were captured on their way back to their own tribe.“Only a few sundowns passed after I had buried my son alone under a clustering thorn-when I determined to leave the Blackfoot” (142). The Blackfoot tribe was working Green Blanket Feet so hard that she couldn't give her toddler the proper attention. Her son had just discovered walking and easily got away from his mother. Being a toddler and not knowing any better, he fell into a fire that took his life. Green Blanket Feet prioritized protecting her children because she loved them. When she failed to protect her son from the fire, she realized she needed to make a change and that was to escape the Blackfoot tribe.. When her son died the lesson, family is everything, became crucial to her and that intensified her need to go back to her own family because she lost her children. Her journey was long and hard, but the spirit of her child was always with her, giving her strength. Everything that tried to knock her emotional strength down, Green-Blanket Feet rose to the occasion and became stronger because of the love for her …show more content…

“Looking that every hour would be the last of its life; and having no Christian friend near me, either to comfort or help me. Oh, I may see the wonderful power of God, that my Spirit did not utterly sink under my affliction: still the Lord upheld me with His gracious and merciful spirit.”(131) Mary Rowlandson mentions multiple times that that she does notn’t have any Christian friends to talk about her religion. As a result, she keeps to herself about her love for the Lord because she doesn't want anyone contradicting her religion. It mentions a time in the book when Rowlandson was exposing her religion and it was rejected because of the lack of faith, “My mistress, before she went , was gone to the burial of a papoose, and returning, she found me sitting and reading in my bible; she snatched it hastily out of my hand, and threw it out of doors. I ran out and catched it up, and put it into my pocket, and never let her see it afterward.”(134) Because her Native American captor “threw [her bible] out of the doors”, it is clear that she faces challenges practicing her religion. Mary Rowlandson kept the religion she loved, protected by not letting any other ideas, that contradicted her beliefs, change her perspective. She did this because it gave her strength and was the only motivation that got her through her time in captivity by

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