Once again there are numerous trials to go through, this time Mary Rowlandson has to go through the loss of a child, not knowing where the rest of her family and husband are and having to live with the Indians. She believes that she is going through all of this heartbreak because she has not lived a pure Puritan path and she has had some missteps, not just because the Indians decided to raid her village and kill and kidnap whomever they wanted.
One thing I found interesting is in The Second Remove where the Indians showed compassion towards Rowlandson and allowed her to get onto one of the Indians' horses with her mortally wounded child after she fell down with it. I feel that this aspect showed how the Indians did have hearts and were not always completly savage as in other accounts. This happened again in The Third Remove when they sat Rowlandson and her child atop the horse behind one of the Indians.
In class we discussed how the Indians tried to comfort Rowlandson by saying "your master will knock your child in the head." I think this could also be a threat because they could have been annoyed by the moaning of the child and all the noise it was making and just wanted to make the child be quiet.
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