American Literature / Unit 4 AML 0320 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Removes: Structure as Spiritual Record
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The idea
Rowlandson divides her captivity into numbered removes, each a stage of the journey away from home. The device turns a forced march into a pilgrimage and lets every hardship be read as a trial permitted by God. The structure is the book's argument about what the ordeal meant.
In practice
Twenty numbered stages, read as a trial.
Where people slip
The numbering makes suffering legible as providence.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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