Topics for short response paper:
Please respond to *one* of the following questions in 1-2 pages (double spaced; approx. 300 words).
- Interpret the figures below in relation to the scenes of terror described by Mary Rowlandson.
In your intepretation consider how: the theme of "wilderness"; of savagery; and how
gender roles are reflected in these images.
- Analyze the episode in relation to the mention of the "Sioux Uprising of 1862."
(Remember that the Ingalls family are returning home from Mankato, Minnesota in the late 1870s.)
- Consider the Wikipedia account of
The Treat of Traverse des Sioux (1851) and the series of treaties between the
United States and the Sioux.
Figure 1:
Charles Ingalls unconscious in the snow with a menacing tomahawk
from an
"Indian" poised over him, from "Survival" (26 February 1975)
Figure 2:
Caroline Ingalls, with her family behind, searches
the blizzard apprehensively
for signs of her husband, from "Survival" (26 February 1975)