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This 5 page paper discusses The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos. Quotes cited from text. Synopsis, description of the evolution of Eunice from childhood to womanhood. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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view. Certainly, this is the case for Eunice Williams, the abducted daughter of a Puritan minister, who renounced her familys faith and chose to live among the Indians. This book
is a remarkable story of one womans personal inward journey, one which eventually delivers Eunice to herself, and gives her the courage to remain true to what she has discovered.
Eunice Williams, the youngest of several children born to a prominent Puritan minister, was abducted along with her siblings, early in 1704.1 After varying lengths of time, they were released
to come back to their own kind. All of the children chose to return, except for Eunice.2 Convinced that the Kahnawake Indians were holding Eunice against her will, they begged
for her to be returned, but the Kahnawakes refused stating that Eunice was happy with them, did not wish to leave and that they would rather "part with their hearts"
than to send Eunice away3. This sets up the conflict in the novel. Eunices family cannot understand how any civilized person could
desire to remain with the savages. What indeed? The reader discovers that Eunice begins to see a way of life that is truer to who she really is in the
core of her being and begins the comparison which will ultimately leave her unredeemed in her communitys eyes and the eyes of her family.4
The first five chapters set the tale from the viewpoint of the Puritans and their world/life views. However, in the sixth chapter, the shift occurs, creating juxtaposition, even
a clash, between cultures, belief systems, and ways of life. Eunice becomes the fulcrum upon which both cultures balance for a time. When she is first captured she is very
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