It's a story of self-education: the problem is about space (territory) not time, because she was being contaminated by the wilderness.

-Many times the story is so horrible that victims from captive narratives can't express their experience in words, one way to survive is identifying with the captor (Stockholm syndrome). When the acculturation is too strong, someone forgets the own identity and becomes native.

There are moments where Mary's techniques for survival betrayed her. The Bible works as a sort of "Roseta stone" (a talisman), so she could understand the hieroglyphics which appeared around her in the wilderness. The Bible always gave her the clue, how to keep strong.

• She survived sewing (cosint) because she did exchanges with natives > something she has sewed with something they could give her > she works for them and then she is paid. She has a fair contract between the buyer and the seller (she is well-paid) Page 122.

• In page 124, when she says "very kind to me" in the 2nd paragraph, she's describing the way she was adapting herself and interacting with natives (there are many examples in the text).

• In page 127 (13th remove) she's again asked to do something and she's rewarded. She's telling us that the Indians have killed her child, cooked and ate him. But thanks to the Lord, she found it wasn't true. She's speaking ironically about the stereotypical Indians. She's also comparing herself with Job (he had everything and lost it, but he understood it was the Lord's Will): "The Hand of the Lord has touched me". Later, she's confessing she's a little bit desperate: "I took mi Bible to read, but I found no comfort". No matter what happens, the Lord is there and she can trust him.

• In page 131 (the two last lines), she's cruel; her mistress baby dies, but she's only thinking of having more space ("thought I confess.. with them").

• In page 141 (on the top) "When my master come home...": her strict Puritan prejudices towards Indians disappeared when she got in contact with them. She's able to start a new life on her own inside their community (that was quite extraordinary and different from the other captive narratives).

• In page 120 she's in direct interaction with King Philip, not with powerless Indians. He offered her tobacco: "For though I had...". She tries to keep herself as clean as possible, so she refuses the King's offer (because tobacco is always related t Indians).

• Page 123: they even gave her permission to go to see her child. "Yet": nobody touched or abused her (it was important to clarify the fact she wasn't raped when she returned to her community).

• She writes like Indians were good people> “He invited me to dinner”. NO, GIRL. You are CAPTIVE, they do not invite you > Està molt dolça la xica.

• She works, she is paid. She cannot say she was exploited, because she was NOT.

• She is like an adoptive daughter (Indians used to adopt white people).

• She is becoming little by little native.

• The Indians have EATEN her son apparently, but it is not true > She is making an ironizing about the way Puritans used t see Indians > as cannibals.

• Page 128> She compares herself with Job > Job had everything and God left him with nothing. > “The hand of the Lord has touched me”. > LI VA EL SADO.

• “I took my Bible to read, but I found no comfort here neither”. > Moments of desperation > she does not find comfort in anywhere.

• Mary has direct relation with King Philip. He offers her a cigarette and she says NO (es fa la remolona) > Page 121.

• Mary Ruiz de la Prada > no para de cosir, es passa la vida cus que te cus.

• “Nobody tried to rope me: yet no one of them offered the least imaginable miscarriage to me”.

• The climax of the text, the most important> Page 137 > Mary has gone completely native. Who is the savage now? The Indian cannot stand by her side (because a ella li canta l’olor) and he says: “when did you wash yourself?” > COXINA.

• She has to thank Lord for this experience, because with this experience she knows that God has touched her > she is the elected one.

• Page 154 and 155: “For whom the Lord loveth…” > meaning if God loves you, he will make you suffer.

• “It is good for me…” > Vanity of vanities > I can live without anything material (as she has done in the wildness), but not without God Himself > “we must rely on God Himself and our whole dependence must be upon Him”.