Flight Of The Sparrow: A Novel of Early America

The historical narrative of Mary Rowlandson is written in the first person. Why might Amy Belding Brown have decided to write her fictionalized account in third person limited perspective? How does this change the portrayal of events?

Read Mary Rowlandson’s historical memoir. How does her account differ from the events portrayed in the novel? How is it similar?

In the novel, how are English enslavement, Indigenous American enslavement, and indentured servitude similar? How do they differ? How do narrative depictions of these three forms of bondage contribute to the theme of Notions and Experiences of Freedom?