Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3 (A), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Department for Applied Language and Culture Science), course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: Introduction This paper deals with the captivity narrative and is intended to explain why captivity occurred, what impacts it had, and how captives reported about it. I am also going to outline how the captivity narrative influenced the attitude of white people towards Native Americans. Therefore, I am going to show in what way both capturers and captives are described. In order to show one captivity narrative in greater detail, I chose Mary Rowlandson's "A True History of the Captivity & Restoration of Mary Rowlandson," (1682) which is arguably the most famous captivity narrative. It set up a pattern, which was later adopted by many other authors. [...]