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A 7 page paper which examines how the gender role in two narratives offers unique elements and perspectives. The stories are Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity and Restoration and Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. No additional sources cited.
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by two different women. They are stories that take place in history and stories that are clearly coming from the perspective of women. The following paper examines and analyzes each
story separately. The stories are examined in the narrators gender approaches to the stories, with an examination of their styles and strategies. Gender and Narratives: Rowlandson Rowlandsons story
is about her captivity by Indians. She is a Christian woman and the time period is during the 17th century in America. With that in mind one can well envision
that she was a homemaker and a strong believer, as were most women in that time in history. She was likely educated, which is evident in her ability to write
well. But, she is also a woman and has a womans perspective and thus her form and style are female for her time. As a woman she clearly relies on
sentiment, for the most part, in reaching her audience. However, there are also elements in the story that are offered up in relatively a clear cut descriptive manner. For
example, in the beginning she notes, "There were five persons taken in one house; the father, and the mother and a sucking child, they knocked on the head; the other
two they took and carried away alive" (Rowlandson). In this she is clearly just presenting the facts, as anyone would do, be they a man or a woman. A man,
however, may speak more of struggles and a man may not have made reference to the fact that one of the children was a "sucking child" as that is something
a woman would be well aware of. There is also a sense of logic to the story presented by Rowlandson which may well support the fact she was educated,
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