American Literature 245                                         Name:_________________

Prep Writing Assignment #3—Up to 10 points: Mary Rowlandson

Puritanism, pp. 109-111 (4-6) Mary Rowlandson, pp. 125-149 (117-140) (cultural filters)

Due: The beginning of class, Thursday, September 30, 2004

Directions:  

• Please write a paragraph or two explaining the attack on Lancaster and the capture of Rowlandson and others from the Native Americans’ (Wampanoags’) point of  view.  

• In addition, please cite two examples of Rowlandson's cultural filter at work in her narrative.