Americans have long been fascinated with the narrative genre.The idea that an innocent could be taken from the home into a wilderness or foreign land at a moment’s notice has ‘’captured’’ American’s imagination from the time of the early colonists who loved the narratives to the modern day movie goers who thrill in movies such as Taken. Two frequently read narratives from americans past, A narrative of the captivity of Mary Rowlandson and The interesting narrative of The life of Olaudah Equiano,focus on how their life was when they were captured.While these narratives differ on many fronts,there are also plenty of commalities.
Mary is beside herself with grief (66). Comparitively Olaudah Equaino experienced a great loss when his sister was
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Mary Rowlandson was treated harshly at first but then they started to get better and treating her like a brother or sister. But unlike Oladuah Eqaunio, he was treated harshly and was beat up. Even though the people did not treat him that well, he had comfort because of his fellow prisoners that were with him in the boat. He knew that they understood what he was going through with him. As well as Mary Rowlandson, she had comfort because it was her daughter that was dead beside her. But she did have comfort at the end of the narrative because it was her daughter. Oladuah wasn’t comfortable because he started to smell the stinch and felt like he was getting sick.
The narrative captivity compare and contrast between Mary Rowlandson and Oladuah Equanio. There are some people in the world who are still captured in the world and are writing captivity stories about what is happening during their journey and what they went through. These people in the world are not comfortable because they are not with their families. Many people in the world are being captured and taken to a random place that they have never seen before in their entire life. Imagine if that happens to you and you are not be seen around your family and