Equiano

In this essay I'm going to compare a Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano the shared similarities in experiences; they had different writing personalities, purposes, attitudes, tones, and relationswith their communities. In Mary Rowlandson’s A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, it is apparent in the title that it is a narrative. Like Mrs. Rowlandson’s literature,Olaudah Equiano’s from Africa to America is a narrative. A narrative form of literature is a story, account of events, or experiences, whether it is true or pretended. In this case their stories weretheir real experiences and they gave the reader, a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and From Africa to America, both stories possessed similar and different elementsof writing. These tales were laudable of comparing because they had various things to review, contrast, and realize, such as the worship, their experiences, and their styles. Mary Rowlandson andOlaudah Equiano were remarkable writers whose works will always be a part of America’s history for the various styles and purposes they had to share with their readers.
In Mary Rowlandson’s “A Narrativeof Captivity,” she explains how she and her family were taken by a group of Indians during King Philip’s War. In Olaudah Equiano’s “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,” hedescribes his experiences of his capture and the journey on the slave ship. As I compare and contrast these two narratives
Mary is very similar to Equiano’s narrative. Since the beginning of this part ofthe novel we immediately detect some similarity between Mary and Equiano’s narrative. Both of them were forcibly taken from their native home into a cruel unknown world, were they were mistreated.They both experience incredible fear when they arrived in the hands of these white people, and both of them at one point believe they were going to be eaten, They were taken away from their family...