Mary Rowlandson

     Mary Rowlandson had a very difficult life. She wrote about her captivity amongst the indian peoples. She wrote about the difficulties of surviving and the loss of her child as well as the anger and frustration she had toward the Native Americans. However you can notice a real change in the way that she writes as she continues to survive her journey with the native americans. She talks about them being barbarack, with out compassion, and very violent, but that changed as time went on. She started talking about them as people as time went on because of her observations of the body of the people. She soon started to see traces of humanity, especially when they buried her dead child.

    Anne Bradstreet was truly an amazing poet. She had the main puritan ideas, some that she did disagree with, but still upheld what the idea of a puritan woman was supposed to do. She took her free time to write her poetry and become a greater poet. While talking about Bradstreet in the lit circles i was able to compare an instance in my life with the event of her home burning. Upon having my car broken into and my things being stolen, the poem about her house burning, opened my eyes to the fact that God really was a great God that could give and take things away, but he still provides. I have gained a lot of knowledge from Bradstreets poetry about God and how he uses events in peoples lives to change them.
    Bradstreet was a very passionate woman, in some ways it seemed as though she was being sarcastic about the things she was experienceing in life, but really she was serious about them. She felt that it wasn't right for women to be looked down on but she kept her thoughts to herself and confined them to the words she wrote on paper.

Benjamine Franklin

Benjamine Franklin really lived "The American Dream." As a child his dad planned to offer him as a tithe to the church and enrolled him in grammar school so that he could then go on to become a minister. I feel for this Benjamin had a little bit of resentment toward his father and toward religion in the way that he described how different religions tend to clash and create tension between one another. However, he still seemed to have some belief because he made an effort to better himself  by recording his sins in a chart. I feel as though he did believe in God but just wasn't one to practice a certain religion or denomination.
Franklin as a younger child learned about the printing press. His own works were published and with out those he probably would not have had the motivation to run away and do something with his life. Through his life he continually worked toward the next goal he had set after acheiving another. He like the idea of standing for something and doing whatever he could to change things so that he could become a better man that had something to do with the things going on in society.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

I believe that Jonathan Edwards dives in deep with this fire and brimstone preaching. He starts off the title of this sermon describing God as angry. Its almost as if he is using this as a tactic to scare the church goers into beleiving in God or they will for sure burn in hell and that if they don't do what God has said in the bible they will still burn in hell. God is a very compassionate God, he did, afterall, send his only son to die for our sins so that if we believe in him we can be saved. In the later section of the sermon he briefly mentions how God is loving but then delves right back into the angry God speil. I felt as though if i had attended his church and if he preached this kind of message i would find myself going to a different church.