The following link will take you to a website that is loaded with information on the topic of captivity novels. What I find interesting is the fact that “captivity narratives” as a genre is mostly attributed to North American settings during colonial times. In addition, the main characters are almost always female and Native Americans are almost always the captors. However, look at what Ms. Campbell suggests under the category of “Rhetorical Purposes.” Discuss the ways in which our novel confirms or negates some of these purposes. Click here.
October 16, 2008...10:02 am
Captivity Narratives
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October 16, 2008 at 10:07 am
One way it confirms this thought is that Lucy (who is a girl) and Naduah (who is Native American), are the two main characters.
October 16, 2008 at 10:09 am
(I meant that she is wanna-be Native American)
SORRY
October 17, 2008 at 10:43 am
I agree that our novel confirms religious expression. There is a lot of pagan and Christian expression in the book.
October 17, 2008 at 10:46 am
Yeah but there is also expressions in this book which shows disagreement between different cultures, so I’m iffy iffy.
October 17, 2008 at 10:47 am
I also think the novel is for popular literature as well, and to show the life of Cynthia Ann Parker and how people felt about Indians back then.
October 17, 2008 at 10:48 am
If you look closely you can see some of figurative language in places you would least expect it.
October 17, 2008 at 10:52 am
On the part where they show how the different countries feel about it, the Spanish and the Puritans said that they were “satanic and brutish beats”. I understand the Puritans feeling, but I always thought the Spanish and the Indians were similar and allied. I guess not.
October 17, 2008 at 10:53 am
Yeah I don’t think they are either. They just have to many disagreements between them.
October 17, 2008 at 10:55 am
Do you think the book is a reinforcement of stereotypes? I’m not even sure what that means. I think a stereotype might be, like, an outcasted person or type of group, like Naduah or the Indians. What do you think?
October 17, 2008 at 10:57 am
I think that a stereotype is someone who stays by them self a lot. So I kind of agree with you
October 17, 2008 at 10:58 am
I think that a stereotype is someone who stays by them self a lot. So I kind of agree with you.
October 17, 2008 at 11:00 am
Another thing it says is it is a Nineteenth-century cultural symbol of American national heritage. I agree with that too.
October 17, 2008 at 11:00 am
I do not agree with it as much because there are other heritages besides American in the book if you think about it.
October 17, 2008 at 11:02 am
True, you are right. But the book is mostly in the Parker House
October 17, 2008 at 11:03 am
Yeah your right it is but there are still other parts not in the Parker House though.
October 21, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Have we discussed justification of westward expansion?
October 21, 2008 at 5:59 pm
No I Don’t believe that we have had that privalage yet
October 21, 2008 at 5:59 pm
(Period at the end sorry I forgot a .)
October 21, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Okay, well I don’t think, in the book, that there is really any expansion westward, or moving. They go to Austin or something, and Cynthia Ann moves houses a lot at the end, but I don’t think the book focuses very much on that.
October 21, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Yeah it does’nt focus much on Westward Expansion but there is some involved don’t you agree.
October 21, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Okay, that’s all the topics. Anything else you want to say about any of the topics?
October 21, 2008 at 6:11 pm
No that’s all
October 21, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I think that we should type our 1 page paper now.