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Captivity Narratives are described to test a person’s faith and ability to survive. Many of these narratives show an up close and personal perspective of how these people were able to live and stay reasonable during their captivity. In Mary Rowlandson’s “A Narrative of Captivity,” she explains how she and her family were taken by a group of Indians during King Philip’s War. In Olaudah Equiano’s “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,” he describes his experiences of his capture and the journey on the slave ship. As I compare and contrast these two narratives, I will demonstrate to you how they are similar and different. In Mary Rowlandson’s narrative, Mary and her family were taken captive, in the Americas, by an Indian tribe due to a war. She was an adult mother that had three children, two daughters and one son; they were all separated with no communication with each other. She and her family were taken captive for more the eleven weeks. Over this time, Mary