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Matritineal Society - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"Iroquois Creation Story" by David
Cusick. The woman giving birth the the twin boys is the focus of the
creation of the Iroquois. This is important because most societies focus on
men.
"When in this Knot I planted was, my Stock/ Soon Knotted" - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔"Upon Wedlock and Death of Children" by Edward Taylor. He discusses
how the Knot, representing a flowerbed being his children, was his stock.
This means that he was happy to see them grow and mature into a flower
, with a stock, or children in maturity. He is rejoicing of this particularly
because his first two children died.
Weetamoo - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" by Mary Rowlandson. Weetamoo was her master
Quinnapin's wife during the time she was held captive by the Wampanoag
tribe. Weetamoo was significant because she held a great deal of power as
a Native American woman, both categories thought of as powerless. Mary
Rowlandson did not like Weetamoo because she made Rowlandson do
things she did not like to do.
Biblical Allusions - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔
"I have seen the extreme vanity of this world: One hour I have been in
health, and wealthy, wanting nothing. But the next hour in sickness and
wounds, and death, having nothing but sorrow and affliction. . . . I have
learned to look beyond the present and smaller troubles and to be quieted
under them." - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration
of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" by Mary Rowlandson. This quote is Rowlandson
describing how she finds her present problems of dealing with nightmares
of her captivity as insignificant problems compared to the problems she
endured while being in captivity.