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What does it mean to be taken captive? According to Webster's dictionary a captive is one who is forcibly confined, subjugated, or enslaved. It is obviously not a desire for anyone to become a captive of war, however this was the case for hundreds of colonists both French and English during the colonization of the "New World". John Demos, author of "The Unredeemed Captive", describes many of these prisoner's stories and their new lives with their captors. The book however is centralized around one family in particular, and their still captive daughter; Eunice Williams. When a child becomes captive it is almost unbearable for their family who can only fear the worst. But when a child is unwilling to return home after they have been captive for quite some time, it brings a whole new aspect of grief, like a nightmare, a situation that can only leave the captive's family in complete confusion. For John Williams, this was reality, his daughter Eunice, was unwilling to come home after being given the choice to go back or stay with her Indian captors. Indian culture was so foreign so frightening, and so unusual to the New England colonists, that a situation like Eunice's coul