Describe the link that mary rowlandson sees between her captivity and the suffering endured by people in the bible. support your ideas with at least two examples of allusions from the selection.

In her narrative, Rowlandson continuously makes references to the bible. By doing so, she makes herself look like if she were in a religious pilgrimage.

This way of writing was  kind of common in her times, specially for women who did not have a public voice.

The way she refers to Christianity can be seen when she writes about her capture, "several houses were burning, and the smoke ascending to heaven’ (2009).

She also expressed her desire to keep respect for the Sabbat day while captive, ‘when the Sabbath came they bade me go to work. I told them it was the Sabbath day, and desired them to let me rest, and told them I would do as much more tomorrow; to which they answered me they would break my face. And here I cannot but take notice of the strange providence of God in preserving the heathen’ (Rowlandson 2009).

In Puritan society The Sabbath was of great importance and by acknowledging it Rowlandson was making herself well seen by her own society. In this way she also gained sympathy from those people around her and at the same time her status in society was much better upheld.

the answer is b i think

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)