Many Puritans dealt with serious hardships during the first years in the New World, while other Puritans didn’t undergo as many obstacles. In the journal A Narrative of Her Captivity, Marry Rowlandson wrote about her tragic enslavement in the New World. In contrast to Rowlandson’s tragedy, Sarah Knight explains what she thought was a serious expedition from Boston to New York in her entry in The Journal of Madam Knight. Few similarities are …showed first 75 words of 679 total…

…showed last 75 words of 679 total…Knight almost starved herself because she was unsatisfied with the food she had acquired. Rowlandson went through a horrible experience when she had gotten captured, and Knight just over exaggerated her problems and believed that is couldn’t get any worse. Rowlandson and Knight were also Puritans but they practiced their faith in dissimilar ways. Both women’s journals illustrate how human beings can take things for granted and how horrible things can truly get.