![]() “I knew by the going of the horse we had entered the water, which my guide told me was the hazardous river he had told me of. Sarah Knight overcomes fear when she must ride through the hazardous river, relying only on the guide and herself. She writes,” I earnestly entreated the Lord, that He would consider my low estate and show me a token for good and, if it were His blessed will, some sign and hope of some relief.”(p27) She pleads God to help her, completely relying on Him for aid. After Mary Rowlandson’s child dies, she asks God for some relief. Conclusively, Sarah Kemble Knight is able to understand the Bible and use it, but Mary Rowlandson knows just the basics of the Bible.Ĭonversely, Sarah’s and Mary’s response to danger oppose each other. Through this example, Sarah empathizes with Lot’s wife and is able to use the Bible’s passage to prevent the same mistake. sitting with my hands fast on each side, my eyes steady, not daring so much as to lodge my tongue a hairbrush more on one side of my mouth than t’other nor so much as think on Lot’s wife.”(p32) which greatly terrified me and caused me to be. On the other hand, Sarah Kemble refers to Lot’s wife who suffered for looking back on the place she was trying to escape. As a reference to Job 16:2, she states, “This was the comfort I had from them, miserable comforters are ye all, as he said.” (p26)Mary Rowlandson was not able to quote Job she could only say that he was in a similar situation. In captivity, Mary Rowlandson feels her faith is being tested when she has to carry her sick baby while they both are starving. Sarah Kemble Knight and Mary Rowlandson are Christians but the way they practice the religion is different. Incontrovertibly, a Christian is a follower of God. The fact that Mary eats her food and Sarah turns from the smell confirms the difference in their attitude towards food. As her journal depicts, “in a little time she brought it in but it being pickled and my guide said it smelled strong of head sauce, we left it.” (p35) For the reason that it smelled, she left after paying for the meal. While traveling, she left a meal because it smelled bad. Conversely, Sarah refuses to eat unsatisfying food. some like it, but the thought that it was bear made me tremble.”(p29) She accepts the food anyway, knowing the rarity of meat. She states, “I asked her to let me boil my piece of bear in her kettle. While imprisoned, she accepts bear meat from an Indian. Mary Rowlandson dislikes many foods but is willing to eat them. ![]() Originally, both seemed picky about food but their views diverge. Lastly they respond to danger in different manners: one religiously, relying on God, the other believing in humanism but follows her faith. Both appear to be strongly religious but Mary Rowlandson can only refer to the Bible, where as, Sarah Knight can quote and interpret. Also, they have opposing views on their religious conviction. For example, Mary Rowlandson accepts food she dislikes while Sarah Kemble Knight refuses a smelly dinner. They are so close in eras but the two differ in their attitude towards food. In “A Narrative of Her Captivity”, Mary Rowlandson accounts her hardships during enslavement. Sarah Knight’s “The Journal of Madam Knight: A Journey from Boston to New York” records her coarse travel. ![]() In the same sense, Sarah Kemble Knight and Mary Rowlandson are seen as alike but differ in many ways. While karats are used for calculating the purity of gold, carats are used as a unit of weight for gemstones. Both are spelled alike and are used in jewelry however, they are remarkably different. ![]() Carats and Karats appear similar on the surface. ![]()
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